APPLE – YOU SCREWED UP!

Can’t get it to go green for sign in after following absolutely all of the help and suggestions as well as Apple support docs. This is from 7-7.2.

\\server\home\

and seeing a list of DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS, etc, rather than George, Sarah, Zippy.

The fix, do in to these folders and delete the desktop.ini file (it’s a hidden system file so you’ll need to enable seeing these in Explorer view settings). Et voila, fixed.

Anyway, one of the big gripes was that since they moved in and started using the Exchange server, all their externals mails turned to plain text. I checked in the spam filtering company and they didn’t make changes to the headers of the emails. Internally, HTML mail worked fine between users. It was driving me mad.

After some serious google searching I came across RisualBlogs.com and they mentioned that a send connector was set to ContentType=MimeText and not MimeHtmlText.

get-remotedomain | set-remotedomain -ContentType MimeHtmlText

Tada! Fixed. Thanks guys!

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BAS-AS\Parameters\JVM Option Number 3

Change from “-Xmx1024m” to “-Xmx768m”.

Reboot and cross your fingers.

This is generally when you realise that something so simple is causing the server to behave completely erratically but you can’t put your finger on it. In this case, I have a HP DL385 quad core, 8Gb of ram running Exchange. I thought initially that install the BESx software on the server killed its speed. It still functioned, just ridiculously slowly.

It came to a head tonight when I had to patch it and it ground to a halt. It’s soooo sloow. I started researching what could cause it. Everyone did the usual posts of reboot in to safemode, is it quick then, did you do this patch, that registry edit. I thought I’d start with the basics and actually disable the services I don’t need/want.

Off went DHCP client (it’s a fixed IP server), next went the HP Smart Array SAS/SATA Event Notification Service and voila! All of a sudden, the OS starts performing correctly and at full speed!

Thanks HP, yet another service from you guys that breaks your hardware!

Power on the Mac, push and hold AppleKey+S and it’ll boot in to single user mode (God/Root)
Do ‘mount -uw /’
Do ‘rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone’ (Makes the OS think it hasn’t been initiated yet)
Do ‘shutdown -h now’

Upon power up you are greeted with the OS thinking it’s all new and shiny. Register a new account (not one that exists) and bang, you have a new admin account and can reset the password to the old one if you wish.

Easy fix, in PowerShell, search and apply mandatory properties to fix them. You can take this on the end of a VBS script if you call it from a PowerShell prompt:

Get-Mailbox -server SERVERNAME -RecipientTypeDetails LegacyMailbox | set-mailbox -applymandatoryproperties

Simple, eh?

Luckily, most browsers now allow for directly embedding content in to the HTML but you’ll need to get it in to the right format first. This script which uses FFMPEG will do just that, and spit out a lovely HTML and MP4 file for you to upload to your site and use instantly.

Here ya go: mp4encode

You can play about with the HTML section as much as you like to make it generate pages on the fly. Trust me, this script has been mightily useful. Ok, so the BASH scripting probably isn’t all that and I could tidy it plenty, but it suits my needs and maybe can be adapted for yours!

BlackBerry Administration Service – Application Server
BlackBerry Administration Service – Native Code Container
BlackBerry Mail Store Service
BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
BlackBerry Dispatcher
BlackBerry Attachment Service
BlackBerry Controller
All of the remaining services for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express components