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Setting up Windows 2003:

Install ISA:
Goto Add/Remove Windows Components,
Click on  “Networking Services”.
Tick Internet Authentication Service.
* Note, May need Install CD

Setup VPN users group:
Open Active Directory
Create a new Group “VPN Users” as a Global, Security Group.
Add Users who you want VPN access to this group.

Configure IAS:
Goto Internet Authentication Service (IAS)
Right Click “RADIUS Clients” > New RADIUS Client.
Give it a sensible name like “Snapgear” > Enter its IP address > Next.
Client vendor set to “RADIUS Standard” > Enter a shared secret to use.
Back at the main console > Select “Remote Access Policies” > “Create a New Remote Access Policy”
Select Use Wizard, Call it “VPN Users Access” > Select VPN > Select Group and Add “VPN Users”
Tick MS-CHAP v2
Finish the Wizard

Configure Snapgear:
Goto PPTP VPN Server > Enable PPTP Server
Set Authentication Scheme to MC-CHAPv2
Use Strong Encryption
Set Authentication Database to RADIUS.
Goto Users > RADIUS
Set the Server to the AD Server, Leave Server Port, Type in the Password we set earlier.

We are Finished

If you are a big fan of Mafia Wars on Facebook like I am then this will be a big help.

All you need to do is download the Excel spreadsheet at the end of this post and then enter in how many of each property you already own. It will then calculate the best return (money per hour) verses the cost. And it will highlight which properties and land you should purchase next. Great when you need to earn the maximum amount of money.

UPDATE:

It now calculates the Income Ratio and Hours until the property has paid for itself.

Download here (or go to my downloads page)

To reset the Symantec System Center admin user password

1. On the computer running Symantec System Center, start Windows Explorer.
2. Go to \Program Files\Symantec\Symantec System Center\Tools.
3. In the right pane, double-click the IFORGOT.exe file.
4. In the Primary server field, type the name of the server group’s primary server.
5. In the user field, type admin
6. In the New Password and Confirm New Password fields, type the new password.
7. Click Reset Password.
   You may be prompted for a Windows user name and password if you specify a remote server.

Refrence: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2005041217010148?Open&docid=2003022010143248&nsf=ent-security.nsf&view=0

If installing TrendMicro OfficeScan on a Windows 2000 Server running IIS 5.0, or you get a 404 Error when trying to load the Managment Webpage you need to allow .exe files to run on IIS. IIS 5.0 Denies .exe files from running by default. To enable .exe files to run you need to edit the urlscan.ini file.

To do this:
Open the urlscan.ini file (default location is “C:WINNTsystem32inetsrvurlscanurlscan.ini”)
Scrol down to “[DenyExtensions]”
Remove .exe from the list and Add it to “[AllowExtensions]” list.
Save and close urlscan.ini
Finally restart IIS.

Ever needed to remove CA eTrust Antivirus Versions 7.0, 7.1, 8.0 or 8.1 off lots of PC’s? Well then you would know the pain of having to go to each individual PC and going to Add/Remove Programs and manually removing it.

I have made a small batch script that will automatically remove CA eTrust Antivirus 7.0, 7.1 8.0 and 8.1 quickly and easily. Either set the script to run in silent mode and add it to your logon script or group policy, or set it to interactive mode and run it on each PC manually (still faster than Add/Remove) and it will uninstall eTrust for you.

Download Here (Or click on my downloads page)

If your like me and running an Ubuntu box as a File Server and Vista as your main PC you may notice a lag when browsing your Samba Shares. This is an Issue with Vista only allowing NTLMv2 connections. The latest version of Samba 3.0.28 or newer supports NTLMv2 but still slows the connection down.

There is currently no fix for Samba but there is a workaround on the vista machine. Basically we set Vista to allow both NTLMv1 and NTLMv2. To do this:

Go to Start > Run > type "secpol.msc" and click OK

Click OK to allow access in UAC.

On the left hand side menu select

Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options

On the right hand side select “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level”

Change the drop down box from "Send NTLMv2 response only" to "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session if security negotiated"

And that’s it, now you should see a noticeable speed up in Vista when browsing Samba shares.

For the Readers:

To make your WordPress more iPhone friendly there is a great plug in called “WPtouch iPhone Theme“. It gives an iPhone like interface that is automatically shown when using an iPhone but not through a standard browser. It also gives you the option to change back to the standard web page easily from the iPhone.

For the Bloggers:

If your big on updating whilst on the move you can’t go past the WordPress App for the iPhone. It lets you blog on the move. The App requires you have WordPress 2.7 or higher though.

So, After installing and playing around with WordPress as per my last post I noticed that Ubuntu only has version 2.3.3 in the Repositories. Now the latest is 2.7.1 and many of the new themes and plug-ins do not work with older versions.

So here is a quick guide to update the Ubuntu 2.3.3 version to 2.7.1.

Please backup your WordPress and de-activate any plug-ins you may have enabled before you start.

SSH into your remote server or bring up the terminal if it is installed on the local machine and download the latest version of WordPress.
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Now if you dont have unzip installed lets install unzip.
sudo apt-get install unzip

So lets unzip the latest version.
unzip latest.zip

Copy it over the old version.
cp -r wordpress /usr/share/

Now log into your WordPress admin page and it will ask you to upgrade. Click upgrade, wait a few minutes then you should be able to log in, and your all done.

How-to Install WordPress on Ubuntu (The REALLY Easy Way):

This guide is using Hardy (8.04.1 LTS).

First we need to access the extra repositories into Ubuntu so:
sudo nano /ect/apt/sources.list

Now add the line
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main restriced multiverse universe

Update the Apt Sources.
sudo apt-get update

Then we need to install LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) To do so we will use Tasksel.

We need to install Taskel.
sudo apt-get install tasksel

Now install LAMP
sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Enter a root password for MySQL, make sure its a strong password and don’t forget it.

Now for the fun part, Lets install WordPress.
sudo apt-get install wordpress

Now pick where you would like WordPress setup on your server. In this example WordPress will be installed to http://<servername>/wordpress. To customise change the second WordPress to the folder on your Webserver you would like it to point to (ie blog).
sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/wordpress

Configure MySQL database
sudo bash /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples/setup-mysql -n (your mysql user) localhost

Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Ok, all the hard work is done.

If your setting up WordPress on your local PC all you will need to do is go-to http://localhost/wordpress(if you set the directory to WordPress like above) and follow the wizard.

Once you have run the wizard you will need to copy the config so that it can be access externally. Make sure you set <yourdomain> to your fully qualified domain name (ie everyrandom.com).
sudo ln -s /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php /etc/wordpress/config-<yourdomain>.php

If you are installing WordPress on a remote server you will need to run the above command BEFORE you can access the setup wizard. If you do not you will get PHP errors or a 404.