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Jan 15, 2009

Replacing a cert without losing existing cert in IIS

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295281

Recently I ran into a problem when I tried to generate a CSR. The current cert in use was from VeriSign and we wanted to switch to thawte. The problem was that the option "Replace current cert" was grayed out because existing cert was still valid. The above KB is the perfect workaround.

Dec 30, 2008

How Outlook contact properties map to LDAP attributes

>>>>>>> Taken from OpenLDAP <<<<<<<<

. Outlook Field - LDAP Attribute(s) (1)
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Summary
. Name - cn, display-name
. E-Mail Address - mail (2)
. Home Phone - homePhone
. Pager - officePager, pager (3)
. Mobile - mobile
. Personal Web Page
. Business Phone - telephoneNumber
. Business FAX - officeFAX, facsimileTelephoneNumber
. Job Title - title

Sep 22, 2008

VB applet that create event logs on Windows 2000 servers

Recently I've been working on a monitoring solution so I need a tool that can generate event logs to trigger the monitoring agent. There are a few tools from MS Support Tools or Resource Kit Tools that can do this but they all have some limitations. For example, some can create logs for existing sources, the other can't create log for existing source/ID.