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Reset a Samsung Galaxy S3 to factory default
It’s an exciting day today! I received my new phone and it could not have come at a better time. No there’s nothing wrong with my Samsung Galaxy S3 but there is something seriously wrong with my mom’s. I decided to give her my old S3 till she gets her new phone. I decided to do a full factory reset on the phone before giving it to my mom so that she can start with a phone that is clean and does not have all my contacts, apps and data on it. I show you how to do a quick and easy factory reset on the S3 below:
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Logitech G27 not working in Windows 8.1
Contrary to what Logitech says, the G27 does not seem to work that well in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. I recently rebuilt my racing rig and attached my G27 Steering wheel to the PC. Windows 8.1 picks it up as a joystick instead of a wheel. Another thing I noticed is that the wheel starts turning a bit and stops when booting Windows as if it looses power. The green LED also comes on and goes dim then off. First thoughts I had is that I have a power supply issue. Turns out it was software related: I downloaded the latest driver (lgs846_x64) from Logitech’s website but the software…
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How to disable IE Enhanced Internet Security in Windows Server 2012
If you are like me and build a lot of labs for testing then you’d probably been hampered by the popups caused by IE Enhanced Internet Security when opening and trying to access webpages. This happens to me all the time. Try and download dependencies for Exchange when IE Enhanced Security is turned on. It’s a pain in the neck. In this video I show you how to disable IE Enhanced Internet Security so that you can get on with the job of downloading dependencies and install your applications in your lab.
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Unable to logon to a reconnected mailbox in Exchange 2010
I tested a few things today and one of them was to disable my mailbox in Exchange 2010. After running Clean-MailboxDatabase databasename I was able to see the disconnected mailbox and reconnect it to my user account. I then tried to login into my mailbox using Outlook and Outlook WebApp. It looked like it was connecting in Outlook but the mailbox showed disconnected. Outlook Webapp returned with an error that my account is disabled. To rectify this I just ran Clean-MailboxDatabase databasename again from Exchange Power Shell and was able to logon in Outlook WebApp and Outlook. Note that running this cmdlet did not show the disabled mailbox immediately so don’t be alarmed, just…
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How to install the telnet client in Windows 8 and 8.1
I’ve built a Ubuntu Server to backup my Home server data and needed to test a few ports to see if they are open. Windows 8 and 8.1 does not have the telnet client installed by default so I decided to post an article to show you how to enable it. Below are the steps involved and a video showing how to enable telnet. Open up the control panel. Click on Programs and Features. Click “Turn Windows Features on of Off” on the left in the Programs and Features window. Scroll down till you see “Telnet Client” and check the check box. The telnet client will now install. Windows needs…
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Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: Your message can’t be delivered because delivery to this address is restricted.
You probably have a lot of devices like printers, main frames and other non Microsoft systems sending mail to distribution groups inside your organisation. If that’s the case and you receive an NDR as per below screenshot then you need to check authentication settings on the distribution group. I recently had this problem where mail would not deliver to the recipients and after some testing we were able to generate the above NDR. The Distribution Group was set t only allow mail from authenticated users thus the reason for the mail delivery failure. The main frame is not able or setup to authenticate with Active Directory and could not send mail…
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Exchange 2003 Services won’t start – Event ID’s 9175, 2114 and 1005
Exchange Server 2003 services does not want to start or takes a long time to start for all the Exchange servers in the same site. We had this issue and found that the Exchange servers tried to authenticate with a domain controller in another site. I found that the Exchange servers had the local Domain Controllers configured in Exchange and could contact the servers using ping and telnet. The application log showed 3 errors that were related to the Exchange Servers not being able to authenticate to the local Domain Controllers. The event ID’s were 9175, 2114 and 1005. Solution: Add the “Manage auditing and security log” permission under “local…
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High Memory Pages/Sec on an Exchange 2010 Server
We had an issue on an Exchange 2010 multi role server this week where the average Memory Pages/Second exceeded 3000. Microsoft recommends that the average Pages/Second should be below 1000. After some investigation we found that the antivirus software was scanning the Exchange folders and log files. For a quick test we disabled the antivirus agent on the server and the average Pages/Second dropped significantly. There could be countless reasons for above normal Memory Pages/Second issues but checking your antivirus software is a quick check. The exclusions in the antivirus software was then configured and the issue was permanently resolved. Note that you should never scan your Exchange log files…
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E-mail address strikethrough in Exchange 2007
We had a problem when our provisioning system would not update the “managed by” property for a distribution list. Further investigation showed that the distribution list’s e-mail address had a strike through like this: (Seen in the DL’s properties using EMC) email@company.com We could not add a new smtp address to the group nor delete the current address. We then opened ADSIedit to have a more in depth look. We then noticed that the SMTP address in proxyAddresses had a space before the @ in the SMTP address. We rectified that and the strikethrough disapeared. We made the changes and managed to provision the DL without any problems.
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Extract Audio from video using Audacity
In this tutorial we show you how to extract audio from video using Audacity in Windows. The same will work in Linux but we had to pont Audacity to FFmpeg in Windows. To download the FFmpeg dll for Windows go to this site:
