Most of you may be aware of this website but for those that are still in the shadows, be it that you are budding newbies to the wonderful world of computer administration (run while you can .. while there still is a chance.. being a network/system administrator slowly takes over your whole life .. you will not have time to spend with your family/friends :( ) or that you have been lying under a huge rock, http://www.sysinternals.com is a treasure chest of amazing tools.
The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. It contains tools, webcasts, forums etc, all of which are quite handy for any administrator.
Just seen that now you dont even need to download the tools. You can run them live from the website itself. I still have to try it for myself, but hey go ahead and try them out for yourself and let me know how it goes.
Hope you having a great day. Email me about any thing that you would like to know more about and I will try to answer it to the best of my abilities.
Ciao
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Offline Address Book - OALGen Error
I take my hat off to Microsoft for making life so easy. I mean compare the number of commands you have to type on those command line *ix machines (before you start replying saying that *ix is no longer command line but GUI, I should make my statement more coherent by saying that I am referring to those distros about 10 years back) to get a task done with the number of clicks you would do for the same on a Windows box.
But at times Microsoft can be quite dumb as well, especially when it comes to support. The error codes generated can be so misleading that even the best techie can on the first try be taken on a path miles away from the solution. But then again I should not complain because the more time I spend finding the solution, the more money I make :)
I recently was faced with an issue with Offline Address Book generation. I kept getting the following error
OALGen will skip user entry 'user name' in address list '\Global Address List' because the SMTP address '' is invalid
I did some searching on google and found the following article on support.microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926206 but the solution outlined there didnt help much.
I finally found another article that explained what the problem was. The user that was causing OALGen to spit the errors had about 5 email addresses attached to his account. Now if you look under the General tab of the user account in Active Directory, you will see that there is an email address listed there. Now what had happened is that that email address was not the same as the primary email address, and because of that OALGen kept on bombing out. I changed the address in the General tab, ran an update on OAL and presto, all was good.
For those of you interested in the article that came to my rescue, here is the link http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/02/offline-address-book-mystery-of-missing.html
Have a lovely week.
But at times Microsoft can be quite dumb as well, especially when it comes to support. The error codes generated can be so misleading that even the best techie can on the first try be taken on a path miles away from the solution. But then again I should not complain because the more time I spend finding the solution, the more money I make :)
I recently was faced with an issue with Offline Address Book generation. I kept getting the following error
OALGen will skip user entry 'user name' in address list '\Global Address List' because the SMTP address '' is invalid
I did some searching on google and found the following article on support.microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926206 but the solution outlined there didnt help much.
I finally found another article that explained what the problem was. The user that was causing OALGen to spit the errors had about 5 email addresses attached to his account. Now if you look under the General tab of the user account in Active Directory, you will see that there is an email address listed there. Now what had happened is that that email address was not the same as the primary email address, and because of that OALGen kept on bombing out. I changed the address in the General tab, ran an update on OAL and presto, all was good.
For those of you interested in the article that came to my rescue, here is the link http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/02/offline-address-book-mystery-of-missing.html
Have a lovely week.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Sandboxie - It just might save your PC one day
With the ever increasing amount of malware and spyware on the internet, it is really hard to keep your pc free from all the baddies. I still remember that evening when I was trying to look for a program that I desperatly needed when I by mistake clicked on a link that I shouldnt have. Just a second after the ill fated click, my mouse pointer grew a brain of its own, my desktop turned scarlet and my taskbar was mine no more! Being the adventure seeker that I am, I took this to be one of those "learning" moments in my life and spent around 3 hours trying to fight the malware Trojan.Vundo . It surely was stubborn but it finally realised that I was more stubborn. Charging like a mad rhinocerous, I finally subdued it and managed to banish it to the dark realms it had creapt out of. Well the tiresome exercise did leave me with alot of experience and red eyes of course. I finally returned to bed, satisfied that I had avenged my pc.
Now, being a few months wiser, I have got McAfee Total Protection 2008 installed on my pc and I religiously check it every day to ensure that it is up to date as far as the virus definitions are concerned. But for those of you that are techie enough, know that you could have the best antivirus/antispyware/antimalware software installed on your pc, with the latest updates installed, but your system can still get compromised. These protection softwares use an engine that uses history and heuristics to find virus patterns. So at times they might not identify malware/viruses that do not have the same patterns as any that were previously seen. And you might be the first of the few that might get their machine toasted by them! By the time your security software vendors find out about it and release the updates, your pc might have flat lined!
Dont you just wish at those times, you had a universal UNDO button that you could use to reverse all the damages that that virus/malware did to your system?
Well say no more because there is just such a software called Sandboxie . It runs programs in a space of its own. In this way everything that the program does is partitioned from the actual system and can be easily reversed because these changes are not committed. It is a really good software to check out. I have just started using it and I love the concept of it.
Have a safe festive season
Now, being a few months wiser, I have got McAfee Total Protection 2008 installed on my pc and I religiously check it every day to ensure that it is up to date as far as the virus definitions are concerned. But for those of you that are techie enough, know that you could have the best antivirus/antispyware/antimalware software installed on your pc, with the latest updates installed, but your system can still get compromised. These protection softwares use an engine that uses history and heuristics to find virus patterns. So at times they might not identify malware/viruses that do not have the same patterns as any that were previously seen. And you might be the first of the few that might get their machine toasted by them! By the time your security software vendors find out about it and release the updates, your pc might have flat lined!
Dont you just wish at those times, you had a universal UNDO button that you could use to reverse all the damages that that virus/malware did to your system?
Well say no more because there is just such a software called Sandboxie . It runs programs in a space of its own. In this way everything that the program does is partitioned from the actual system and can be easily reversed because these changes are not committed. It is a really good software to check out. I have just started using it and I love the concept of it.
Have a safe festive season
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