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Cannot scroll up in Google Chrome using certain touch pads

By Burnsie • Sep 26th, 2008 • Category: Windows Vista

I wasn’t able to scroll up using my HP Notebook touchpad in Chrome. I downloaded and installed this patch and it resolved it straight away. (I was using Google Chrome v0.2.149.30 at the time)
The patch is available here: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pjt2v07/chrome/ (Thanks to Paul for writing this fix)
Things to note:
You need to run [...]



SBS migration fails with error “This server has a trust relationship with Domain_name.local”

By Burnsie • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Windows 2K3 Server

Method one in the below article resolved this issue for me. Seems to happen on DELL’s a fair bit.



SQL Query to export/list all users in your Blackberry Server Farm

By Burnsie • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: BlackBerry

If you want a fast and easy way to list all the Blackberry users in your farm, with relevant information, run the below SQL query against the BESMgmt database on your Blackberry SQL database.
It will return the following information:
Users Display name
BES Server they are on
Exchange server their mailbox is on
PIN of their BES
IT Policy they [...]



VB Script to check disk space and email results

By Burnsie • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: Windows 2K3 Server

Here is a script I hacked together that checks disk space of your servers and emails it to an address. This can be scheduled using Windows Task Scheduler.
Requirements:
- CDONTS - http://kb.swsoft.com/en/560
- Needs to be run under administrative rights

‘ Sample code for monitoring windows disk space

‘ This script reports the drive usage of all fixed [...]



Reset Password Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate

By Burnsie • May 17th, 2007 • Category: Misc

To save you the grief of a long wait, here is how to reset the password on office scan corp
To reset this, first go to the servers C:\Program Files\Trend\OfficeScan\PCCSRV and edit the ofscan.ini.
- Search “_pwd” and then clear the string of stuff after the = sign.
- Change it to the value “70″
- Save the [...]



Script to check if a windows service is running, and email a user if it is not

By Burnsie • Feb 21st, 2007 • Category: Misc

This script will check if a specified windows service is running, and if not, it will email a user.
This script uses the Microsoft CDO service. You will need to ensure you have permissions to relay through the SMTP server you have specified in the variables.

‘check service.vbs
‘/*****************************************************************/
‘ ABOUT:
‘ Checks if a service is running and [...]



Exchange RPC over HTTPs GUI configuration tool

By Burnsie • Feb 14th, 2007 • Category: Exchange

This tool allows you to configure RPC over HTTPs without all that tedious mucking about in regedit

Click to download: RPC over HTTPs GUI configuration tool



Forgot your NAV (Symantec AntiVirus) Corporate Ed Password?

By Burnsie • Feb 12th, 2007 • Category: Misc

No sweat. The security conscious people at Symantec have provided a password reset tool for you.
It can be found in
C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec System Center\Tools (On a default install)
It is called iforgot.exe
Simply double click it, enter the new details you wish to have on the server, and away you go.



JRNL_WRAP_ERROR on Single Domain Controller environment

By Burnsie • Jan 17th, 2007 • Category: Windows 2K3 Server

When faced with the following issue on a single domain controller environment
The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set “DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)” is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR.
Replica set name is : “DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)”
Replica root path is : “c:\windows\sysvol\domain”
Replica root volume is [...]



How to ghost/move a system from SCSI RAID to IDE and vice versa

By Burnsie • Nov 21st, 2006 • Category: Misc

Grab a copy of Symantec Ghost
Create a bootable floppy disk using a windows computer. (Insert a blank floppy, right click in my computer, format, tick “create an MSDOS startup disk”)
Copy ghost.exe to the bootable floppy disk.
Grab an IDE hard disk and install it into your server.
Boot off the bootable floppy disk and run ghost.exe [...]



Implementing Exchange 2003 Message Journaling

By Burnsie • Nov 21st, 2006 • Category: Exchange

I may not agree with the practise… but message journaling allows you to archive a copy of every message sent into and out of your organisation to meet specific legal requirements. Just be aware of the performance impact it will have on your servers.
An excellent article on Implementing Exchange 2003 Message Journaling can be [...]



MSN 80072efd error

By Burnsie • Nov 13th, 2006 • Category: Windows XP

I had a problem with MSN not signing in when using MSN 8.0 or 8.1 BETA. It kept giving the error code 80072efd.
To fix it I had to download and install MSN 7.5 and it fixed the problem.
It is available from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0B88CCBF-4C52-4347-AA71-87184A13AC1C&displaylang=en