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If you haven’t decommissioned old DHCP servers properly they may appear in DHCP snap-in even after removing them from Active Directory.You can normally remove such servers by running following command:netsh dhcp delete server FQDN IPe.g. netsh dhcp delete server svr-dc3.contoso.com…
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Joomla – make pagination horizontal
If pagination on your Joomla website appears vertical instead of horizontal you need to add following code to your template CSS file: .pagination ul li{display: inline;padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;}
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Setup TrixBox (Asterisk) to accept dialling from MS Outlook 2010
You can use Microsoft Outlook built in dialling functionality to dial numbers from Outlook contacts list via Asterisk Server. Server Setup Ensure Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) is enabledOpen /etc/asterisk/manager.confand make sure following lines are present (if not add them):[general]enabled =…
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Reboot Linksys / Cisco SPA VOIP Phones remotely
One annoying thing with configuring Linksys or Cisco SPA VOIP phones remotely is that web administration interface doesn’t have option to reboot the phone. There is a little trick which allows to do exactly this though. Simply add /admin/reboot to…
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Free up space on system (C) drive
Even during times of terabyte(s) sized hard drives you can come across situations when C: drive if full and you have to free-up some space no matter what. Besides obvious solutions such as deleting large files from desktop and so…
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Darik’s Boot and Nuke HDD wipe hangs on “PCI (sysfs)”
Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is excellent free utility which can securely wipe computer hard drives. It works from a bootable CD/DVD so is completely independent on client operating system.
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Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on Server 2008 R2 – “You must use the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1”
If you try to download and install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 installation will fail with error: “You must use the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1“. This is…
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Transferring iPhone Camera Roll pictures to Windows 7 PC
Pictures taken with iPhone’s camera are pretty much the only files you can transfer from iPhone to a Windows 7 computer without installing iTunes or any other additional software. Simply connect your iPhone to a PC via USB cable, open…
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Cannot start SQL Server 2005 – Event ID 17190
Environment VMware ESXi 4.0 hostMicrosoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4SQL service account: sql-admin (domain account) Issue Microsoft SQL 2005 server service not running. Starting service manually fails with error message: Windows could not…
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DHCP service keeps crashing with Event ID 1000
Issue Windows Small Business Server 2008 stopped issuing IP addresses. DHCP service not running. After staring DHCP service manually, it crashes after couple of seconds. Following error is logged in Windows Application Logs: Source: Application ErrorEvent ID: 1000Level: ErrorDescription:Faulting application…
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Transfer windows 7 desktop gadgets between computers
It looks like Microsoft is abandoning Windows Desktop Gadgets as they are focusing on Windows 8 Metro style apps. Official Windows Desktop Gadgets web page only lists handful of the most popular gadgets and new gadgets are not anymore accepted.…
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MS Word 2010 – Comments text in track changes balloon very small
Issue Text in comments balloon is extremely small and unreadable. Reason Ballon Text style is configured with very small font size. Solution Modify Ballon Text style and increase the font size: Open the affected document in MS Word 2010 In…