Archive for 'networkadmin'

Moving your .ost file with Outlook 2003

August 5th, 2008 – 4:35 pm
Filed as: networkadmin

Anyone that has read my blog before will know that I recently switched to Ubuntu as my primary OS however what I haven’t mentioned is that I also have a Windows XP virtual machine running for the sole purpose of running Outlook for my work email.
When I set up the virtual machine I was a [...]

Flash plugin with Ubuntu

May 1st, 2008 – 4:11 pm
Filed as: networkadmin, ubuntu

I recently installed the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu, version 8.04 aka Hardy Heron, from Vista (which was pre-installed when I bought the laptop)
I managed to switch quite happily, replacing many of the applications I used daily (Notepad++, FileZilla, TortoiseSVN, Winamp) with either their linux counterparts or alternatives (Bluefish, Exaile and I’m going with [...]

Resetting a MySQL root password

April 8th, 2008 – 4:14 pm
Filed as: networkadmin

It happened, I forgot a password. I normally pride myself on my memory for things like passwords but this one was gone so I went searching for a way to reset it. I found this very concise entry at debian-administration.org that sorted me out. There were many others like it but this is the one [...]

Redirecting a former employee’s email in Exchange

March 31st, 2008 – 9:28 am
Filed as: networkadmin

Let me start with a brief disclaimer I’m not a formal Exchange administrator but I’ve been using it enough years to get my head around it and basically understand how to get it to do what needs to be done.
A fairly common task I have performed in the past is to redirect a former employee’s [...]