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Just more ramblings of another IT Guy

What is my IP?

Google now returns your ip address as a result when searching for “my IP” or “what is my IP”

http://www.google.ie/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=1696588

Not sure how new this is but it saves a click or two …..

Google default search to https when signed in

If only they just redirected all traffic to the https version…….

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html

Fortigate SSL VPN login issues after upgrade to Version4 MR3 Patch2

If you suddenly find that you cannot log in remotely using the SSL VPN authenticating via radius and  are encountering the following

 

sslvpn-user  pri=alert action=ssl-login-fail

reason=”no_matching_policy” msg=”SSL user failed to logged in”

 

Add individual users to  the User GRoup associated with the SSL VPN in questions

 

 

40% off YubiKey October 2011 – hak540

Linux log tail

A very handy command to use when debugging apache issues is the “tail -f” command. This will display continually output the last lines of each specified log file.

 

i.e.

“tail -f /var/log/https/access_log”

PsExec

A very handy tool to run commands on a remote system

i.e. want to run ipconfig on a server but not go through the hassle of logging on???

Then PsExec is the answer. It can be found….here

Black logon screen Windows Server 2003

The windows login screen may appear black if the registry entry responsible for the colors becomes corrupted. In this case it has values of ( 0 0 0)… or black…..

 

This is simpley fixed by making the appropriate changes to the registry entry. The simplest way would be to take a working reg entry from a different Windows Server 2003 system and add it to the system encountering the problem.

The following key is what is probably causing the issue

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors

 

Useful links here and here

Exchange 2003 mailstore limit

the Mailstore on Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). is limited by default to 18gb but this is easily changed by adding/changing a reg entry and then restarting the Information Store

Taken from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912375

Important Before you increase the maximum size of an Exchange database,
verify that sufficient hard disk space is available for the larger database.

  1. On the computer that is running Exchange 2003 SP2, click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. Click one of the following registry subkeys, as appropriate for the store
    that you want to increase:

    • For a mailbox store, click the following registry subkey:
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server
      name
      \Private-Mailbox Store GUID
    • For a public folder store, click the following registry subkey:
      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server
      name
      \Public-Public Store GUID
  3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD
    Value
    .
  4. In the New Value #1box, type Database Size Limit in Gb, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click Database Size Limit in Gb, and
    then click Modify.
  6. Click Decimal, and then type an integer from
    1 to 75 in the Value data box.
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Fortigate dubug SSL VPN

#dia debug en
#dia debug reset
#dia debug application sslvpn -1

Cisco Warranty CD links to malware site

Documents on the cd may contain links to content from a malacious website
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20110803-cd.shtml