06.18.08

MPS re-working required in HMC4 after Exchange 2007 SP1 installed.

Posted in Work at 8:52 pm by JohnB

We’ve seen a problem being highlighted by a couple of hosters where their HMC4-based customers were (horror of horrors) able to see each other in the GAL. This is obviously not a good things and was deserving of some investigation. After some digging around and some pointed questions we found that the problem wasn’t that the Default GAL had the wrong permissions, but that applying the Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack1 actually brings back the standard corporate address lists (All Groups Address List, All Users Address List etc). After service pack 1 has been applied, you have to go into the deployment tool and run the tasks below in order to get rid of the ambiguous and security breaching address lists.

Re-Run actions for addrss lists

-J.

06.17.08

HMC 3.5 and 4 Hotfixes and rollups now available on Technet

Posted in Work at 1:43 pm by JohnB

Just wanted to spread the word that Microsoft have made available on Technet a list of KB articles and hotfixes for various issues which may be seen.

Please note that unless you are seeing this particular issues in YOUR HMC deployment you should only apply these hotfixes if they are marked as ‘required’. IF you need help with the installation of these hotfixes Planet Technologies can undertake this on you behalf for a small fee through their On-Line Consulting service.

- J.

06.12.08

Parallels for mac - Stop auto login as administrator on XP

Posted in Home at 10:58 am by JohnB

For a long time now I’ve been mildly annoyed by the fact that every time I start up my virtualised XP environment under Parallels on the Mac, it tries to log me is as Administrator. I don’t want Administrator, I want my own account see!

Today I finally got sick of the error dialogue and prompt so did some diggin around. I initially thought that this was being set up and passed through by Parallels but a search there yielded nothing at all, then I found this little snippet about doing stuff in the Windows environment itself:

  • Open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ WindowsNT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon

  • Delete the DefaultPassword entry.
  • Double-click AutoAdminLogon, type 0 in the Value Data box, and then click OK.

BINGO! I now get a nice login prompt with no auto-nonsense.

Thought I’d share

- J.

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