Category: Misc Technical
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Microsoft TechEd Day #3
Good Morning Day #3! Today marks the halfway point of TechEd North America 2010. I’m not sure whether to be glad or upset that it’s almost over. The amount of knowledge I’ve gained from presentations and fellow TechEd attendees has been outstanding. However, there is such a thing as information overload and I don’t want…
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TechEd Day #2
As I sit down to write about everything that happened today, I realized that I need to take better notes throughout the day. This morning started off with a mediocre at best “continental breakfast”. Bagels, muffins and toast was basically the entire spread. Oh, and my buffet line was missing cream cheese and I couldn’t…
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Microsoft TechEd Day #1
I’ve been looking forward to this trip for some time now. I haven’t had a chance to attend a conference/expo in roughly 2 years so the opportunity to get out of the office routine and reconnect with peers is just what I need to rekindle my passion for tech. Like most folks I know, attending…
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Issuing SSL Certificates to APC Devices from Microsoft PKI
Here’s the process I used to issue SSL certificates to each of my APC nework devices: 1. Download and run the “APC Security Wizard” software. You can get this directly from APC’s website or from the utilities folder of the CD that came with the device. I recommend checking the website for the newest version…
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Running SugarCRM Community Edition on Windows Server 2008 R2
After much trial and error I’ve finally figured out the magic formula to get SugarCRM 5.5.2 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with a remote SQL 2005 server. I have two servers for this project, Server1 (Web Server), and Server2 (SQL 2005 Server). Here are the steps I took to make this work… Server2 (SQL)…
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Network or Active Directory Required Resources Not Available
Our instance of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 began reporting the following error from one of our Sharepoint servers: “Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you. ). Group Policy processing aborted.” Apparently this…
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