My clients on my network could access FTP servers behind our ISA 06 firewall but they could not create or delete anything on that FTP. I checked to make sure the permissions on the FTP were setup correctly. I narrowed it down to ISA blocking Incoming FTP traffic coming back from the FTP servers. I did some searching and there are many issues out on this. Others issues vary slightly but I did find something that worked for me. I setup the below rule on ISA.
Comodo hogs 100% cpu
Issue: Your computer is at a slow crawl and you are unable to do anything. This is because Comodo Antivirus is hogging CPU usage. If you look at task manager you will notice that either cpf.exe or cmdagent.exe hog 100% CPU usage. Fix: Reboot your computer in safe mode To enter to the safe mode, … Read more
Integrate SugarCRM with Active Directory
Here is a quick how to guide on configuring SugarCRM to integrate with your Active Directory.
First thing you need to do is log into your SugarCRM and click on the admin link in the upper right hand corner.
Scroll down to System Settings and click on this link.
Now scroll down to LDAP Authentication Support and enable it. This will expand out and you will need to configure these settings.
Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder
Have you ever had a hard time understanding what a user did to produce a problem or error? Have you ever had a user try to explain what they did to cause a problem or error but needed to see the actual error and or steps?
Well now you will be able to as clients begin to get Windows 7. Microsoft has added a feature that lets users record their steps and send to you in a nice little web page complete with screen shots. Here are the steps to have a user produce this in Windows 7:
DPM “Replica is inconsistent” “Recovery point creation failed”
In DPM 2007 I kept getting “Replica is inconsistent” “Recovery point creation failed” errors on some of my protected members. You can see further details of the errors below and suggested solutions.
Here are some steps I tried to resolve the issue.
1 Right click on the protected member with the error and perform a consistency check. (Did not work)
2 Checked the storage pool on my DPM server under management>>disks
as you can see there is plenty of free space.
CP Omitting Linux Command Error
So I was trying to copy one folder to another location and kept getting this error: cp: omitting directory and it would not copy the directory over. This is the command I was running cp FOLDER /root/DRIVE I am fairly new to Linux so I did not know what I was doing wrong. After looking … Read more
Free Win 7 Deployment workshop
I will be attending a FREE half-day Windows 7 Deployment technical seminar in Minnesota. It will be presented by Jarvis Davis a Senior ConfigMgr Consultant. Here are the topics that will be covered in the technical seminar: In this session, Virteva will share their desktop deployment processes and methodologies as well as lessons learned, covering … Read more
App crashes on Vista/Server 08
So I have had certain software crash under Vista or 2008 Server while other applications on the same machine work just fine. Here is one of the errors I see:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: EXECUTABLE.exe
Application Version: 1.7.1.0
Application Timestamp: 4896b682
Fault Module Name: StackHash_3884
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 002ca978
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.16.7
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 3884
Additional Information 2: b68e6d6fa0c9967afbd16b6d0b9e4ef4
Additional Information 3: 6276
Additional Information 4: a9fd8ecff73ec5510247cf946efdd405
This could be caused by copy protection. Here is how I resolved it:
Manually install a DPM 2007 agent
I ran into problems installing DPM agent on a few of my servers over the network through the DPM admin console. In this case I had to manually install the DPM agent on the servers I wanted to protect. Here are the 4 steps:
1. Locate the 2.0.5820.0 folder on your DPM server here in:
%systemroot%\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\Agents\RA\
The 2.0.5820.0 folder is here and will have folders i386 and amd64 in it. If you are installing on a 64bit server use the installer from the amd64 folder otherwise just use the i386 folder.
2. Copy to this folder to the local %systemroot% drive on the server you want to protect. I created a folder in on the server I wanted to protect to make things easy called DPMagentinstall
for example c:\DPMagentinstall
3. Open a command prompt. If this is Windows 2008 server be sure to open the command prompt with elevated privileges. Then type: CD c:\DPMagentinstall\DpmAgentInstaller.exe YOURDPMserverFQDN
EXAMPLE: DPMAgentInstaller.exe DPM01.mydomain.com
It will then let you know that your server requires a restart if it was successful.
Setup 3CX IP PBX/VOIP for Windows
3CX Phone System for Windows is a software-based IP PBX. This is what we decided to use. We thought about setting up a trixbox server but decided to give 3CX a try.
What you will need:
- 3CX software
- Purchased VOIP number
- Win XP computer (you can use Vista we talk about XP in this article)
- IIS 6 on your XP OS
- A router that can do port forwarding or port mapping
- The 3CX soft phone (you can use X-Lite but we like the TS feature in 3CX soft phone)
- A static IP, FQDN (routable on the internet), or a dynamic IP
- Time to install, configure and test
Pre Configuration:
- On your firewall and or router open Ports 5480, 5482, 5483, 5485,
- Setup a static map or forward of ports: 5060-5100 (TCP and UDP), 9000-9015 (TCP and UDP) and 3400-3499 (TCP and UDP) to your PBX server.
NOTE: forwarding ports 5060-5100 covers Port 5090 (TCP) for the 3CX Tunnel. The 3CX Tunnel is so that users can connect to the PBX server remotely to get an extension.