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Delegate Server Admin rights to another user to install Exchange 2007
I had to delegate access to an admin in another country to let him install Exchange 2007 on his new servers. The below video shows how this works as I tested this the day before hand in my lab. I did however run in to some problems in production as we have multiple domains. The Microsoft article below the video shows you to open cmd prompt and then run the commands. However check the following: 1. Always right click and choose “run as administrator” when opening the cmd prompt or you will get errors. 2. You need to browse to the Exchange install file (setup.com) in the cmd prompt before…
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How to install HP printer/scanner in Ubuntu 15.04
I had to install my HP OfficeJet in Ubuntu 15.04. I need it to scan and print using the printer’s wireless function and to do that you need to install HPLIP as per my below video. The articles I used are: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/ubuntu.html and http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/hp_setup.html ( I had to run sudo hp-install -i to setup the printer as I received GUI errors and was not in the mood to find out why)
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How to access a Bitlocker encrypted Windows disk using Ubuntu 15.04
Today has been one of those days where you think to yourself. “Self, you should have backed up your data more often!” My work laptop running Windows 8.1 decided to commit suicide. The laptop froze up and when I rebooted I received an error stating that werkernel.sys is missing and it won’t boot in to Windows. I took the laptop in and IT tried recovering Windows but could not get it repaired. The problem is that we use Bitlocker which meant it would be a challenge to just boot up with a Live Linux Distro and copy off my needed data. After a few hours I managed to access my…
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How to install PyCharm on Ubuntu Gnome 15.04
A video showing you how to install PyCharm in Ubuntu 15.04. 1. First you need to install Java 2. Then download and run PyCharm as per below instructions 1. Open your Terminal and type: sudo apt-get purge openjdk* (This will get rid of older versions) 2. Add the repository. In terminal type: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webup8team/java 3. Update cache by typing this in terminal: sudo -apt-get update 4. Install Java by running this in terminal: sudo apt-get install oracle-jave8-installer 5. Download PyCharm from http://www.jetbrains.com 6. Extract the downloaded file: tar -xf pycharm-community-versionnumber.tar.gz 7. cd to the folder name you extracted 8. cd to the PyCharm folder/bin 9. From within the BIN…
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How to install Skype in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04
Today I will show you how easy it is to install Skype 4.3 in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04. This should also work in Ubuntu 15.04. All steps are below the video if you wish not to watch the video and just follow the step by step guide. 1. Open Software and Updates 2. Click on “Other Software” 3. Check the check boxes next to Canonocal Partners and Canonocal Partners (Source Code). Enter your password when prompted 4. Click on Close to close the Software and Updates window 5. Open your Terminal (ctrl + alt + T is the short cut to open the terminal) 6. It’s good practice to run sudo…
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Guide to install PyQt step by step in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04
I’m currently doing a course on Python GUI development and needed to install PyQt4 on my Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 desktop which gave me some stumbling blocks. Through lots of testing and research I managed to get it installed and decided to create a step by step guide on installing PyQt4 on Ubuntu 15.04. You can view the steps below the video. Below are the steps I took to get everything installed and working: 1. download sip from Riverbank Computing 2. download PyQT from Riverbank Computing 3. In the terminal run: sudo apt-get install python3.4-dev and then run: sudo apt-get install build-essential) too From the terminal run: sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools…
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How to install Virtual Box guest additions in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04
I recently switched to Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 and installed a virtual desktop to test things before applying it to my production desktop. In this video below I show you how easy it is to install the Virtual Box Guest Additions to virtual machine running Ubuntu Gnome 15.04
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How to display line numbers in Visual Studio
I managed to hide the line numbers in Visual Studio Express 2013 and decided to make a video on how to display the line numbers again. Below are the steps for displaying the line numbers in Visual Studio Express 2013 and also a short video of how to do get them back. In Visual Studio, click on Tools. Choose Options. Expand Text Editor. Click on All Languages. (I chose All Languages but you can choose the specific language that you are using to only display line numbers for that language). Tick the check box next to Line Numbers. Click OK. Your line numbers will now be displayed 🙂
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Windows reports incorrect free space on a disk
I had an interesting one today. Received a call for a disk that is running out of disk space and I thought, easy, quickly log on and clear some space. It turns out that the total data on the disk was 5GB in size, with the disk being 40GB in capacity, but the available free space reported was 4GB. This baffled me a bit but after some assistance from an internet search and colleague we quickly found that the problem was related to shadow copies taking up space. In our scenario, shadow copies were disabled but running vssadmin list shadowstorage in the cmd line told us a different story. The…
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War Thunder crashes after logging into the game
I installed War Thunder today. Got the X55 hooked up and ready to play the game. I started the game from Steam and was prompted with the login screen. Problem is the game kept crashing after logging in with no error and only an option to send a crash dump to the developers. After quite a while I stumbled on a comment on the War Thunder forums that switched on a light bulb in my head. If you have the display link driver installed, then remove it using Programs and Features. Reboot your PC and then try again. I managed to login and the game launched as expected after removing…
