Extend a Windows System Volume

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 09:08 — admin

In this age of virtualization I typically try to size a Windows system volume to a realistic size. That is, a size that will provide a good cushion, but not over allocating space. Occassionally, I do screw up and I need extend the volume. Now, one cannot resize a live system volume with diskpart, even if you have sufficient space on that disk. With additional data type volumes, one can add the space necessary to the LUN, run diskpart and extend the volume.

SNMP Disk Used percent (PRTG)

Wed, 06/03/2009 - 09:03 — miked

At the university, we use PRTG for all sorts of monitoring. I'd been working with porting our disk monitoring we currently do for Windows servers in perfmon alerts to PRTG. That seems to work fine and PRTG seemed like a good choice for monitoring Linux partitions seeing as we really hadn't had a good solutions for it yet.

cups-pdf in 9.04

Tue, 05/19/2009 - 13:59 — miked

According to this bug report, one must create the pdf output folder prior to installing cups-pdf. If you don't, you'll get a "/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf failed" error in the printer status. To fix this issue mkdir ~/PDF prior to installing cups-pdf.

Cheers!

Reinstall Missing Ubuntu Packages

Tue, 05/19/2009 - 13:56 — miked

In my stupidity, I hastily followed someone's recommendation to fix a printing problem (which I will post in a minute). This person suggested that to fix a cups-pdf problem, one should remove all cups stuff and then just reinstall cups-pdf. After having done this not only did cups-pdf not work but the envince document viewer (the default ubuntu pdf reader) was gone, plus a bunch of other cups packages.

Apparently, if you accidentally remove default packages in the desktop version, you can restore them as easy as:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Mailman on Ubuntu 8.04

Tue, 03/31/2009 - 06:46 — miked

Welcome! In an earlier post, I had mentioned that the university was in the midst of finding a new listserver software and that we had landed on Mailman. This article outlines our setup, taken mainly from the documentation but boiled down to the essentials for me and probably most people.

You could probably install mailman from the apt repos and be just fine, but I chose to do it from source so that I got a deeper understanding of it and to customize certain aspects.

Removing Exchange 2003 from your Org

Mon, 03/30/2009 - 14:23 — miked

If anyone out there is looking for a good guide to removing Exchange 2003 from your Exchange org, this four part guide is it. Thanks to Neil Hobson for writing it!

Find List Members

Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:00 — miked

We are making a move from Reddfish Listserver (horrible - don't even Google it) to Mailman. Reddfish "integrated" with Exchange by working with AD groups and contact types. During this migration, I have to get the current lists into mailman which means I have to get a nice clean list of line seperated email addresses to feed into Mailman. Here is the code I use to get this to work. Very simple, but I hope it still proves useful.

 

Find Email Address in Exchange Org

Tue, 02/17/2009 - 13:39 — miked

Have you ever had a tough time finding where an email address exists in your Exchange Org. Often times this comes from have a forward on a mailbox or a contact set to an external address. If you run the following in your Exchange Management Shell, you should be able to find almost any address or portion of address in your org. I like to format the output too, so you can change the | format-table part to however you would like the output to read.


get-recipient -filter {emailaddresses -like "Pattern goes here"}|format-table name,recipienttype,emailaddresses

Drupal Hide Block from Admin

Sat, 02/14/2009 - 23:18 — miked

Have you every wanted to hide ad blocks or some other content in Drupal when you're logged in? To do so, you will need to enter this code block into the "Show if the following PHP code returns TRUE (PHP-mode, experts only)" section under Page specific visibility settings.

  1. <?php
  2. global $user;
  3. if ($user->uid != 1 && $user->uid !=3)
  4.   return TRUE;
  5. ?>

How Many Exchange Mailboxes

Thu, 02/12/2009 - 12:53 — miked

Have you ever wondered how many mailboxes you have in your Exchange org? Well, if you have Exchange 2007 installed (not even any mailboxes migrated yet) you can fire up the Exchange Management Shell and throw down the following.

get-mailbox|measure-object

That simple!