Monday, July 29, 2013

Import Export menu is grayed out in Outlook

This is usually happens with localized version of Outlook. Greyed menu preventing from making backups, import/export email and adress book. Solution is easy:
  • Go to Control panel 
  • Clock, Language and region
  • Region and language
  • Administrative tab 
  • On Lnguage for non-Unicode programs press "Change system locale.."
  • Select the same locale as selected in outlook.
After OS restart import/export meniu should be functional

Friday, July 12, 2013

SDR-radio.com and SDR# do not recognize RTL based tuner.

That story begins when I decided to start SDR radio on my laptop. I bought DVB-T USB tuner, based on RTL2832U chip, downloaded software and start playing. Zadig driver installed without any problems, but sdr software was unable to find my tuner.
I have tried different versions of zadig drivers, all of them installed with succes. Different versions of sdr software and different .dll's, but result was always the same - when I tried to start sdr software it did not saw tuner.

After some research and internet browsing I found that problem relays to libusbx, and NEC/Renesas USB 3.0 chip users should upgrade their drivers to version 2.1.16.0 or later. There is a bug in older versions that prevents libusbx from accessing devices. Unfortunatelly my laptop (HP EliteBook 8460p) has that USB 3.0 chip.

Problem was resolved by downloading new driver from HP. After installation I tried to start SDR#, but again with no luck. Though driver's installer reported, that installation was successful, but after looking in driver's properties I recognized that old drivers still in use. So I manually updated driver (Device manager -> Update Driver Software... -> Browse my computer for driver software -> Choose folder with drivers files). After that software was able to detect tuner.

Hope it will help someone to avoid dificulties with configuration.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Exchange 2013 EAC - Blank page after login

After deleting or assigning other Exchange certificate, you can't open emc page (blank page).

netsh http show sslcert

save output

delete error causing cert:


netsh http delete sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:444

assign right cert:

netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:444 certhash=4849849849884484884848 appid="{4dc3e181-e1445554554155455}"
-> you can copy certhash and appid from the other applied certs..

Exchange 2013 increasing rules quota

To set the rules quota to 256kb for the user dummy run
[PS] C:\>get-mailbox dummy|set-mailbox -rulesquota 256kb
To make sure that the user has got the new rules size run
[PS] C:\>get-mailbox dummy|fl rulesquota
It should return
RulesQuota : 256KB
To set the quota for all users run
[PS] C:\>get-mailbox|set-mailbox -rulesquota 256kb
To get the quota of all users run
[PS] C:\>get-mailbox|fl rulesquota, alias

How to install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012


The problem was that the .NET Framework 3.5 was a requirement, and I was unable to install it from the Server Manager.This is the problem I ran in to when trying to add the feature:
“Do you want to specify an alternate source path? One or more installation selections are missing source files…”
Bug when adding .net framework 3.5 in Server 2012
Apparently, there’s a bug in Windows Server 2012 when trying to add the .NET Framework 3.5 from Server Manager. In order to get it to work, I had to enable the feature via the Command Prompt.
This is the command that I had to type:
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /all /Source:d:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess
Note: Source should be the Windows installation disc. In my case, this was located on D:
Bug when adding .net framework 3.5 in Server 2012
After running this command, .NET Framework 3.5 was enabled and I was able to install SQL Server 2008 R2

Configuring postfix to forward all email to a smtp gateway

Introduction

Suppose you want all your web servers to locally send all email (maybe from your contact forms, or whatever) to a real smtp gateway. If you're running postfix as your mta, this is quite easily to achieve.

Configuration

In your main.cf file (usually /etc/postfix/main.cf or /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf), specify your transport maps:
  1. transport_maps =  hash:/etc/postfix/transport  
And in your transport file (usually /etc/postfix/transport or /usr/local/etc/postfix/transport), specify your gateways per domain. This allows you to specify with regular expressions which emails go where. In this case, an asterisk specifies every domain (the transport file allows very complex setups, this is of course an extreme and trivial example):
  1. *              smtp:myotherhost.com  
Then invoke postmap to regenerate the transports db, and reload postfix:
  1. # postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport  
  2. # postfix reload  
That should do it. All email generated in this host should now be forwarded to the smtp gateway. Remember to configure your smtp gateway to accept mail from all the hosts that will forward emails to it.