How Save Outlook Auto Complete List June 18, 2009
Posted by Gomez in E-Mail, IT, Microsoft.Tags: Auto Complete List, Microsoft Office, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Outlook Cache
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Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 have a feature called Email Address Auto Complete. As you type in an email address into the TO:, BCC or CC: field outlook will display a list of matching email addresses from the outlook auto-complete cache.
Ok now we know what auto complete is, let located the file;
Close Outlook.
Open Windows Explorer and enter the following address in the Address bar: %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook (this is the same as drive:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook) Windows Explorer will update to the appropriate Outlook folder. In this folder you would see the .nk2 file(s). Now to explain every Microsoft Outlook profile will have its own .nk2 file e.g. the default profile name is outlook so you will see the outlook.nk2 file. Just make a copy backup of this file, that’s all to it, you are done!
If you are not too sure what your current profile(s) are you can open mail icon in control panel and on the Mail Setup – Outlook dialog box, client on Show profile, here you can see all your default profiles.
Now let’s say that on the computer you want to restore/replace the outlook.nk2 file has a different profile name e.g. exchangepro is the name of the profile on the target computer, all you need to do is navigate to: %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook, paste the outlook.nk2 file then rename it to profilename.nk2 (in this example exchangepro.nk2). Open Microsoft outlook and enjoy.
ITunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode on Windows PC June 13, 2009
Posted by Gomez in Apple.Tags: Apple IPod, IPod, IPod Recovery, ITunes
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FIRST: This minor issue could give someone with love for music headaches so I am sharing my experience/ solution with you.
Now if you follow ITunes recommendation to restore your IPod, that’s ok, but it will never stop asking to restore your IPod. Remember a restore is a factory default, so all of your files would be wiped!
SOLUTION: This iPod error message is caused when you have a removable device other than your iPod plugged into a USB port and occupying the drive letter the IPod previously used. All you need to do is unplug all removable USB devices, Open Computer Management > Disk Management, look for your IPOD device ,right click on your iPod device and click change drive letter, assign a new drive letter to your IPOD device, after successful change, unplug IPOD data cable, and reconnect the cable. Your IPod would display as normal.
Where are my CALS? June 13, 2009
Posted by Gomez in IT, Microsoft, Network Services.Tags: Client Access Licenses, SBS 2003, SBS License Store, Small Business Server
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For all my fellow Small Business Server users, this week I was greeted with an issue with one of my client’s informing me that they are not able to access the mapped network drives “Connection to resource has exceeded maximum connections” After extensive searching in Event Viewer > System logs, I came across the following entry;
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SBCore
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1023
Date: 6/11/2009
Time: 7:08:27 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XXXXXX
Description:
The license store for the client access licenses is not valid. Only the minimum number of client access licenses will be available until a valid license store is restored. For more information, see Help in the Licensing snap-in.
Open Server Management > Licenses, found that installed CALs (50 Client access licenses) disappeared leaving only the default “5”.
There are three main methods for restoring the License Store.
Method 1: If you had previously exported the license store after entering the CALS and activating them, you can simply restore that file.
Method 2: If you have the actual CAL codes you can re-enter and activate the CALS.
Method 3: If you have a backup of your system drive you can locate the file licstr.cpa which is located in %systemroot%/system32 folder. Simply replace this file on your affected system with the previously backed up licstr.cpa. (This method was the one that worked in my situation)
Now after you have restored the licstr.cpa file in its original location, be sure to restart the license logging service.
Word of caution for those who have not experience this issue, take a backup of your license store!
Seizing all FSMO roles (FLEXIBLE SINGLE MASTER OPERATIONS) June 13, 2009
Posted by daakeung in Uncategorized.Tags: active directory roles, domain naming master, flexible single master operations, fsmo, infrastructure master, pdc, rid master, seize roles
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If you need to seize roles from a failed server, you can do so by :
Opening run, type cmd then ntdsutil.
ntdsutil: roles
fsmo maintenance: connections
server connections: connect to dc1.akeung.com
Binding to dc1.akeung.com … Connected to dc1.akeung.com using credentials of locally logged on user.
server connections: q
fsmo maintenance: help
Seize domain naming master - Overwrite domain role on connected server
Seize infrastructure master – Overwrite infrastructure role on connected server
Seize PDC – Overwrite PDC role on connected server
Seize RID master - Overwrite RID role on connected server
Seize schema master – Overwrite schema role on connected server
Select operation target – Select sites, servers, domains, roles and naming contexts
Transfer domain naming master – Make connected server the domain naming master
Transfer infrastructure master – Make connected server the infrastructure master
Transfer PDC - Make connected server the PDC
Transfer RID master – Make connected server the RID master
Transfer schema master - Make connected server the schema master
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This is the interesting part, to seize the roles to the connected server, issue the commands as follows:
fsmo maintenance: seize schema master
fsmo maintenance: Seize PDC
fsmo maintenance: Seize RID master
fsmo maintenance: Seize domain naming master
fsmo maintenance: Seize infrastructure master
A prompt will confirm the change you will be making to active directory. Please only use role seizure as a last resort when you cannot “TRANFER” a role.
