Thursday, August 30, 2012

Windows 7 sleep problem USB mouse

I resolved my Windows 7 sleep problem. When my computer would sleep, it would not wake up and my wireless mouse and keyboard seemed disconnected. Other USB devices never powered on. I eventually had to hard boot it to get the computer back up. Here is what I did to resolve it. This may only work for others that have a USB related sleep issue.

1. I ran the "powercfg -energy" command from a command prompt elevated woth administrator rights (right click, run as administrator).
2. The report had many instances with this information pointing to a USB issue: "USB Suspend:USB Device not Entering Suspend" providing a clue to the problem.
3. I went to Control Panel --> Hardware and Sound --> Power Options --> Change Plan Settings (on your preferred plan) --> Change Advanced Power Settings --> USB Settings --> USB Selective Suspend Setting.
5. I changed the setting to: Disabled.
6. I placed the computer into sleep and woke it up several times and the problem was resolved.

I hope this post helps others with USB related sleep issues with Windows 7. Good luck.


source: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/1762-help-sleep-wake-up-2.html

explorer view on sharepoint: no response or error message

I would say the post Scoutman put up is really helpful. solved the issues i've been having for months with the password prompt in all Office docs.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/thread/023f4b23-3ce6-4d83-8cb0-7398b88ba6ab/?prof=required
Remove WebDav from your Sharepoint Servers and reboot them. It will fix the issue with Windows Explorer view. Also, if you have your system x64 bit, make sure you open IE x86 to launch Explorer View.


 source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointecm/thread/dba159c7-517a-4389-98b6-fdf2f97b6b24

Open in Windows Explorer doesn’t work in SharePoint site

June 20, 2011
Environment: Windows Server 2008, IIS 7
Symptom:
In a document library when you try to open the “Open in Windows Explorer” under the actions menu either nothing happens or you receive an error.
If you try to change the view to “Explorer view” in the document library then you see a similar error in an iframe:
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Cause:
Both IIS 7 and SharePoint has a separate implementation for the WebDAV module. If both modules are active at the same time then the SharePoint WebDAV won’t work.
Solution:
Disable the IIS WebDAV module for your SharePoint web application. Update the web.config file and add the following line under configuration/system.webServer/modules to remove the IIS WebDAVModule:

source: http://expectedexception.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/open-in-windows-explorer-doesnt-work-in-sharepoint-site/

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Troubleshooting AOL/other mail server mail delivery Exchange problems

How to troubleshoot
There's two things you need to do.

1. Make sure that you have a PTR (reverse) DNS record for your mail server. If you don't have one AOL will not accept your mail. It does not have to match the A used for your mail server or your MX record, and doesn't have to make sense.. you just have to have one.

2. Simple troubleshooting steps will tell you exactly what the problem is

From a command prompt (red bits are responses)

c:\nslookup
>set type=mx
>aol.com

Server: Glate's Server
Address: 172.19.0.33

Non-authoritative answer:
aol.com MX preference = 15, mail exchanger = mailin-08.mx.aol.com


>exit

C:\telnet mailin-08.mx.aol.com 25

220-rly-mf08.mail.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-mf08.3; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:13:45
-0400
220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
220- authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
220- networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
220- e-mail sent from the internet. Effective immediately: AOL
220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.

HELO GLATE
250 rly-mf08.mail.aol.com OK
mail from: <frank@glate.com>
250 OK
rcpt to: <frank@aol.com>
250 OK
data
354 START MAIL INPUT, END WITH "." ON A LINE BY ITSELF
this is a test
.
421-: (RLY:CH) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html
421 SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE


This is the error I received, yours may be different obviously.. upon visiting the website it tells me that my IP address "has generated AOL member complaints and your mail system may be compromised due to a virus or other security related issue"

Shared Calendar in SBS 2008

I have setup a public folder and now need to have a shared calendar associated with it. What is the process to complete this task. The users are on a minimum of Outlook 2007.


Software/Hardware used:
SBS 2008, outlook >= 2007, windows xp and 7


Answer Wiki:
1. Log onto the SBS server as domain admin
2. Under the Server Management Console > Advanced Management
3. Right click First Organization and click on Properties & tick beside both Display ....
4. Click Apply and OK. Now close Server Management Console
5. Now open it again
6. Under Advanced Management > Expand the Exchange organization-->Administrative Groups-->first administrative group-->Folders
7. Right Click on the above created folder and click on Properties
8. Click the Limits tab (if you want to do like that)
9. Click Permissions tab > Client permissions > add & set permissions for users Now Open Outlook 1. Click on Folders View > Public Folders >All Public Folders 2. Right click on folder created above, click Add to Favorites and do name Favorite and click ADD. Click on the Calendar button in Outlook Hope it shows new added calendar under Other Calendars in Outlook !