Powershell script to create reverse lookups (PTR) in Microsoft DNS

We’re switching IP spaces at work and need to create a large amount of reverse lookup PTR records for our PAT/NAT pools. Microsoft only allows you to manually create one DNS entry at a time via the GUI so I wrote a simple Powershell script that lets you mass create sequential PTR records.   #################################### … Read more

KB2917508 (Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3) appears to hang during installation

Last updated: [last-modified] Recently I had to install KB2917508 on one of our existing Exchange 2010 SP3 servers. This Rollup had been successfully installed on our 4 other Exchange servers but for some odd reason this server it would appear to hang during the install progress. The progress bar would stop just short of 50% … Read more

Proxy Settings pushed by GPO not applying to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9

I support a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain, until today only Windows XP clients and Internet Explorer 8. We use a proxy server to filter and monitor the internet and we push the configuration for that proxy server via Group Policy. Our current GPO works perfectly with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 8. Today we … Read more

How to configure Mediawiki to authenticate against Active Directory on CentOS

Last modified: [last-modified] This assumes you’ve got a working install of MediaWiki already and just need to tie it into Active Directory. 1. Make sure php-ldap is installed yum install php-ldap.x86_64 2. Configure OpenLDAP on CentOS to ignore your domain controllers certificate validity. We all trust our own domain controllers don’t we? vim /etc/openldap/ldap.conf # … Read more

Exchange ActiveSync account disappearing after reboot on a Blackberry Z10

Last modified: [last-modified] Update – 2013-04-17 Looks like after I upgraded my phone to 10.0.10.822 (from AT&T) this issue has gone away.   Update – 2013-04-16 After some trial and error I might have found a workaround for this bug. Disable Memo and Task syncing. They don’t work anyway. After doing that my Exchange account … Read more