I decided I wanted to change the button functionally on my MCE remote, the remote I have is similar if not the same to the one in the picture. I never really used the coloured buttons but I want to so I thought I’d change their functions. The function being related to x10 devices which I am yet have a mess with as Royal Mail have yet to deliver them, I could rant all day about them I think I’ll move on.

My system is based upon Mythbuntu/Linux so bare that in mind and these are the steps I had to take which may differ but this should give you an idea.

1. Create a file in “~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps/” called remote.xml
2. Insert the following;

<keymap>
<global>
<remote>
<red>Function_Here</red>
<green>Function_Here</green>
<yellow>Function_Here</yellow>
<blue>Function_Here</blue>>
</remote>
</global>
</keymap>

3. Replace Function_Here with an Action within XBMC, a list can be found here.
4. Save and restart XBMC.

Hope this helps, It worked for me so hopefully it’ll work else where.

In Exchange2010 you can do all this via a Transport Rule, this is new as you can’t do this on Exchange2007 or Exchange2003 as I have seen in a SBS 2003 set-up I manage.

To do this..

1. Open Exchange Management Console and navigate to “Organisation Configuration” > “Hub Transports” > “Transport Rules” > “New Transport Rule” .
2. Give the new rule a name and a commit and click next.
3. Select the condition “send to users that are inside or outside the organisation, or partners” and click next
3.1 May be worth to later create two rules one for sending to inside the organisation and another for sending to outside the organisation.
4. Select the action “Append disclaimer text and fallback to action if unable to apply”.
5. click the blue text “disclaimer text” and edit the field. click next and create the rule.

Test this by sending an email to someone other another address.

You can use the following macros for inserting user specific information to the signature..

Display Name: %DisplayName%%
First Name: %%FirstName%%
Last Name: %%LastName%%
Business Phone: %%Phone%%
Title: %%Title%%

As well as inserting Word formatted HTML..

This all seems a little pointless on my Exchange installation as I only have a few users but I imagine this could save quite a few pennies on storage as it stops the signature from being appended on Outlook and then saved in the sent folder, this frees up space in the mailbox.

I suppose it also centralises management of signatures for when you are adding disclaimer or marketing messages

Error:
Active Directory operation failed on *DomainController*. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation.
Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150E8A, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0

The user has insufficient access rights.

Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
’*OUStructure*’ | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase ‘Mailbox Database nnnnnnnnnn′ -BadItemLimit ‘0′

• I found that this error can be fixed by editing the Advanced Security Settings for the user on the AD.
• Open “Active Directory Users and Computers”
• Click “View > Advanced Features”
• Select the users mailbox properties
• Navigate to “Security Tab > Adanced”
• Select the checkbox “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent”
• Apply changes

Afterwards the move should go swimmingly, however you may need to remove your move request a try again.

1. Open MySQL Command Line Client and enter your MySQL root password
2. Select a database to import your SQL file too. Replacing “databasename” with your database name.
USE "databasename"

replacing “databasename” with your database name. Replace “C:\sqlfilenamee.sql” with the location of your SQL file.
3. Excute your SQL file by entering the following command
\. "C:\sqlfilenamee.sql"

Hit enter and your SQL file will be imported in to your database. Simples!

Anyway back to the point. Why the nice shiny server I hear you ask? Well its part of a plan I am putting in place in order to keep everything on the business computers backed up! There is a simple backup system in place but it doesn’t cover everything. Only the important bits. So its Windows Home Server to the rescue. Yep that’s right I’m going to put Windows Home Server on the new machine. Windows Home Server (WHS) is quite handy when it comes to small business’s and/or offices. In this case the backup of networked computers is the main reason WHS is being deployed and here is why…

- Backs up all the computers daily
- Pretty much restore a computer in 10 minutes.
- Restore a whole computer or that file you just deleted
- Doesn’t use up terabytes of data space

Its an all round win. You can aswell, with a bit of a nudge join it to a domain and run services on it like Virtual Machines, DNS, FTP etc etc..

I’m not the only one deploying WHS in a small business. Microsoft even recommends it and are starting to push the idea to small business’s…

More Info Here

Well it seemed to boot without a DVI cable attached. So remove all video cables including VGA and boot the machine wait  3/5 minutes and attach a VGA cable and the monitor should display the BIOS asking to confirm default settings.

Head over to the ASUS Support Site and download the latest firmware (Version 0403) and burn it to a CD. Don’t forget to unzip it first. Updating the motherboard was straight forward using Asus EZ  Flash utility in the BIOS and took a minute or two.

More Info: http://vip.asus.com

Here is how to do it:

- Click Start, Run and type “regedit”
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, NetBT, Parameters
- Right Click in the window to the right, New , DWORD value
- Enter “RandomAdapter” and give it a value of 1
- Restart system.

More Info

This is done on Small Business Server 2003 with Microsoft Exchange 2003, although it may be applied to Exchange 2007 but I’m not sure I haven’t yet touched it.

You may want to share a mailbox for a number of reasons but the main reason for me is to allow multiple people to use a mailbox for a certain role. For example you may have an e-mail address along the lines of support@example.com. You may have multiple people replying to support e-mails. By sharing a mailbox users can mark e-mails read, flag or even delete e-mails.

Here is how its done!

Stage 1: Allow users access
1: Create a user account for the e-mail address. I am going to use the example support.
2: Set up the accounts e-mail (pop3 mailbox etc)
3: Log on to the account (Support)
4: Open Outlook, Click; Tools > Options > Delegates > Add
5: Add/Find users you would like to grant permissions to
6: Add the user by clicking “Add–>>;”  Tip: you may add multiple users
7: Click OK
8: Clicking the Inbox drop-down menu; select editor (See Fig1)
9: Click OK x2, and return to Outlook

Stage 2: Apply permissions to the inbox.
10: Right Click “Mailbox – “useraccount displayname”" and select Properties
11: Add the users from before
12: Grant each user “Publishing Editor” permissions
13: Click OK
14: Log off

Stage 3: Add the mailbox
15: Log on to the user account you granted access to (Eg user1)
16: Open Outlook
17: Click Tools > E-mail Accounts
18: Click Next > Change
19: Click More Settings > Advanced
20: Click Add
21: Enter the name of the mailbox (Eg Support)
22: Click Ok
23: A message box will appear, Click Ok
24: Click Next > Finish
25: Upon returning to the main Outlook screen the mailbox should appear down the left hand side
26: If it doesn’t restart Outlook
27: Repeat stage 3 for each user

Hope this helps?