Public Folder contact list missing from Other Contacts

In a perfect world, you would do the following to add a public folder contact to your contacts list.

Go to the public folder, right click and add to Favorites.

Other things you can do...

Go to the Public Folder Contact, right click the Contact, Properties, go to the Outlook Address Book tab, and click the check mark for Show this folder as an email Address Book.

Once this is done, you can verify it is in your contact by clicking on the address book icon

Now right click on the Contact again and click Add to Favorites, it should now show up in Contacts under Other Contacts.

Showing the folder as an email Address Book alone will NOT put the contact into your Contacts pane.  You will either have to both check the box and add to favorites, or simply add to favorites.  If its in favorites, delete from the favorites and add it again.  If its still not showing up in Other Contacts, delete the .ost file.

I had a user that had nothing in Other Contacts, even though the specific contacts were already in Favorites in Public Folders.  I deleted the .ost file and it came back.

Backup Exec failing on corrupt files

Obviously corrupt files are a problem of their own, but to get past them and backup everything you can, go here in the registry (on the BU Exec server obviously)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SYMANTEC\Backup Exec for Windows\Backup Exec\Engine\Backup
the key is called Failed Jobs On Corrupt Files
if its not there, create it.
Edit > Add  Value
Value name = Fail Jobs On Corrupt Files
Data Type = DWORD
Value Data = 0

That's it, set the Value Data to 0 and the job will complete.  Corrupt files will be skipped.

iPhone cannot verify server identity, exchange active sync

Recently a user was getting this error on their iPhone:
Cannot verify server identity

Long story short its due to server certificates and various IOS's.  The users impacted had IOS 7, but it looks like an on and off issue since IOS 4.
The solution I found was to manually install the server certificate on the phone.

Get a copy of the CA certificate, either by emailing it to yourself or the user, or having it loaded on an FTP or something like that.

Tap the certificate and tap install.  Enter your passcode and you're done.

There is a great walk through for adding the certificates with screen shots here:
http://longwhiteclouds.com/2013/01/03/installing-corporate-ca-certificates-on-iphone-or-ipad-for-use-with-vmware-view/

updating windows server time

Occasionally I'll have a server go out of time.
There are lots of how to's on the internet, so rather than going into that, I'll just put what worked for me.

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:(online time server, ex: time.windows.com) /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update

Depending on how the fonts show up, I'll rewrite that with (space) instead of spaces.

w32tm(space)/config(space)/manualpeerlist:(server)(space)/syncfromflags:manual(space)/reliable:yes(space)/update

Also, here is a list of available time servers:
http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi

Error in LAMP when restarting Apache2

when installing LAMP per the instructions here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu

which was essentially:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
sudo mysql_install_db
sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
adding index.php to the beginning of this config file
<IfModule mod_dir.c>

          DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm

</IfModule>

sudo apt-get install php5-common
sudo nano /var/www/info.php
configure file with:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
sudo service apache2 restart

It was at that moment that I got the following error:

apache2: Syntax error on line 211 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf: </IfModule> without matchin <IfModule> section
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!

Now, typing it all out I can clearly see what was wrong.  Inadvertently I deleted the first < while editing the dir.conf file in the red highlighted step.

So if you're bad at keyboarding like I am, and screw up the same way, this might help you.

I choo-choo-choose you to open APT

As I mentioned in my previous Ubuntu post, I ran into a snag trying to install Flash (which it turns out I didn't need anyway...)
When I went to Adobe, I see it auto detected I was running a Linux OS, things are looking up, this might be a 'windows' easy install!  So I selected APT for Ubuntu 10+.

Uh oh... This link needs to be opened with an application.  Send to:  uh... what?

So after some trial and error following different fix its (reinstalling the software center was one.  Cool thing I've noticed about Ubuntu is how fast you can uninstall and reinstall programs. That fix didn't work for me btw, I never got Software Center as an option to open apt links.)
The answer was found in a program called apturl, located in the bin folder of usr, which is located in File System.  You can get to that by clicking on the Home Folder on your tool bar.  The Home Folder seems to be equivalent to My Computer, or Computer on a windows machine.
So you click Choose... and here is where you need to go.  Again, that was File System/usr/bin

It doesn't hurt to remember this choice, I'll probably eat those words later, but whatever.

So after that you just go through the prompts, affirming and clicking whatever button lets you continue.

Youtube is all scrambled Ubuntu 12.04

So I'm giving Ubuntu a try, so far I like it enough.  I'm running it on an older HP desktop, but the OS itself seems decently fast.  Seems faster then when it was running XP, could be placebo.  I enjoy the way you can install/uninstall through terminal.
After getting it all up and running I head over to youtube where I waste... er... spend? a good amount of time.  There was a check mark during Ubuntu's install that said something about installing 3rd party apps to run things like flash, so I should be good to go... or so I thought.
I pull up Chocolate Rain, and I see the following screen:

 Well this certainly isn't enjoyable... its like watching scrambled Cable.
I check for flash and verify its installed, which it was.  So I decided what the heck, go over to Adobe and install the newest flash player they have.  This brought be to some issues with opening apt files, which I'll get into later.  Regardless, after figuring out why it wouldn't open, I got flash installed, but I was still watching the scrambled cable variety of youtube.  While it gave a nice slimming effect to everything, it wasn't to my liking.
Uninstall/reinstall time.
I initially went to the Software Center to install flash (after installing from the website, the Software Center version looked like it was available for install) but when I clicked it, I got a warning saying I needed to remove the following files:

adobe-flash-properties-gtk
adobe-flashplugin

As far as I could tell, the app from the Software Center was adobe-flashplugin, but whatever.  So I installed the both of them using:

sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
sudo apt-get remove adobe-flash-properties-gtk

If it asks for a password, the password is your login password.

So these uninstalled, and I attempted the Adobe Flash Plugin from the Software Center.  I closed out of the Software Center and tried the video again.
Success!

It asked to install flash, but the video started playing, Firefox OBVIOUSLY doesn't know what its talking about, right?  On the next video I clicked on, back to scrambled youtube, what the frick?  Turns out the adobe Flash Plugin was still loading. So I sudo'd the flash away, and youtube played.  It was choppy at the beginning, but this computer is kind of shit, after letting it buffer all was well.
But I didn't have flash.  Which Youtube initially tells me I need, before loading the video anyway...
Other sites that use flash still don't work.  As demonstrated below.

 But when I install flash, that gets all scrambled anyway.

So yeah, uninstall Flash if you want Youtube to work?  Don't ask me, I just work here.  I don't know if this is specific to my exact setup, or if other people come across this, either way, Youtube is obviously more important to me than having Flash.  I'm assuming it uses whatever protocol Youtube uses when it plays on Apple products when Flash isn't detected, since they don't like Flash either.

If you know of a real work around for this, that would be awesome!  Leave it in the comments and I'll try it out.