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

NetApp SnapManager for Hyper-V won’t install because KB2263829 isn’t installed

I’m deploying a new Hyper-V cluster on Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 and trying to install NetApp SnapManager for Hyper-V 1.1. As part of the installation pre-requisites NetApp wants you to install the following KBs: KB2406705 KB2531907 KB2263829 KB2494016 KB2637197 KB2517329 Some of these KBs have been replaced with newer ones if you’ve already … Read more

Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003 displays “Loading…” when users login

This patch Tuesday after reboots we had users trying to login to OWA on our Exchange 2003 servers. They would authenticate fine and see their folder list but could not see the contents of their inbox or interact in anyway with the OWA interface. Users that chose the ‘Basic’ OWA interface could see their e-mail … Read more