http://www.iishacks.com Everything a Network and System Administrator Needs Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:01:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A bit off-topic...I came across G-Fox: the mascot for Firefox China. It's so cute that I might convert. Found here: http://www.mozillaonline.com/products/gfox/ I bet everyone knows where to download Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/08/25/g-fox-mascot-for-firefox/ With a fresh install of Windows 2003 on the Intel SE7221BA1-E server board, no default graphics driver is loaded. This causes an "out of range" message to appear on most monitors after the LOAD screen finishes, when the logon screen is supposed to appear. The solution is to press F8 when ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/08/25/intel-board-se7221ba1-e-signal-out-of-range-with-fresh-windows-2003-install/ Where's POP3? A few people have asked where to find the POP3 service in Windows 2008 for a simple mail server. The answer: nowhere. While SMTP is alive and well in the Features section of the Windows 2008 Server Manager, POP3 has been removed from Windows 2008 altogether. POP3 has been depreciated and ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/07/22/pop3-protocol-missing-in-windows-2008-iis7/ Ridata announced three new SSDs today (Ultra-S Plus Series) in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models. The new drives utilize the multi-level cell technology - resulting in lower cost, but also slower speed. The drives will have a nominal read speed of 128MB/s and a write speed of 80MB/s. The drives will ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/07/16/ridata-announces-three-new-low-cost-ssds/ With the release of Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, Microsoft has included PHP5 FASTCGI support. ISAPI is still faster in my opinion, and if used correctly, very stable. PHP uses a 32-bit DLL so it will not work with an x64 system. There are several ports of PHP to ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/07/03/how-to-install-php-isapi-on-windows-2008-iis7-x64/ U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not relevant to their role. I'll be honest...and I'm sure no one will believe me, but I have not snooped on anyone in ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/07/02/it-admins-are-snoops/ So you’ve forgotten your administrator password (or someone else’s!) and have physical access to the machine. The good news is you can recover the password or reset it a number of different ways. These crackers will decrypt the LM Hash (the method used to store passwords in Windows fewer than ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/06/23/windows-xp2003vista-password-recovery/ This will allow the Out of Office Assistant (OOF) to work when it is enabled from within the Options section of Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003. The following is disabled by default. Start the Exchange System Manager. Click on Global Settings, and then "Internet Message Formats." In the right-hand pane, right-click and ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/03/28/outlook-web-access-out-of-office-assistant/ Here are the Dell MD1000 Direct Attached Storage Benchmarks I had promised earlier. The performance is not bad. I'm trying to squeeze some more MB/s out of the read performance. I've also included performance / disk. Looks as though 4x and 8x disks in RAID10 have the best performance per ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/03/24/dell-das-md1000-benchmarks/ I've found there is neither rhyme nor reason for Outlook having difficulty connecting to Exchange over RPC. Many times the same configuration will result in errors or unpredictable behavior. It is frustrating to say the least. There is a decent work-around that alleviates most connection problems, especially the dreaded first ... http://www.iishacks.com/index.php/2008/03/23/https-over-rpc-with-outlook-2003-2007/