you do not have sufficient privileges to delete user exchange activesync devices

I had some users that I couldn't delete and I was getting this error:
you do not have sufficient privileges to delete
And it would give the CN, OU and mentioned the ExchangeActiveSyncDevices.
Saying it was protected from accidental deletion.

To get around this, I had to Enable Inheritance on the user.  To do this, you have to have Advanced Features enabled.
This is done in View of Active Directory Users and Computers.  In the window of AD Users and Computers, select View and Advanced Features.

Now, right click on the user in question and select Properties, go to the Security tab and click Advanced.

Put a check mark in 'Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent' (2012 functional level)

Now you can delete the user without getting the error.

Make DFS use FQDN

First, remove the server from the Namespaces

Launch powershell as an admin and run this:

Dfsutil.exe server registry dfsdnsconfig set <ServerName>



Reboot the server



Add to the namespace, if configured correctly, the server path will show up \\<ServerName>.<Domain> under the path in Folder Targets.

I recently added a third server to the DFS, and it didn't show up with .domain in the folder targets.  It did show up with its FQDN in Namespace Servers.

If your server is not displaying its FQDN in folder targets, and you've already followed the above steps, go to Replication, and go to the Replication Group.  Select the Replicated Folders tab, right click the folders, removing them from the namespace, right click and add them back.  Boom, server.domain FQDN populates for the new server.

Remove and prevent Windows 8 apps from installing on new profiles

Using Windows 8 in a network environment is annoying.  Its a decent OS, I mean, it works fine enough.  But the fact that it auto installs apps for every user is annoying to say the least.  Every time a new person logs into the computer it sets up a bunch of news and food apps that use the network.
Uninstalling them from a specific user account is easy enough, simply right click the tile and remove.  But the next person that logs in gets all the apps again... Until I found this gem of the internet:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Remove-All-Pre-Installed-Windows-8-Metro-Apps-328110.shtml

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

Log in with a new user, it'll do the "Hi...... lets get started...." etc etc, but it won't install any apps.

Combine this with Go to the Desktop instead of Start (go to desktop, right click task bar, Properties, Navigation, check "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop.") and you have a pretty normal windows OS.

Updates:
You have to run powershell as admin.
This also works in Windows 10

VMWare machine, CD/DVD drive connecting

I was setting up a new machine, attaching an ISO to the CD/DVD of the virtual machine.  I switched to another ISO and it got stuck in a (connecting) status.  Restarting the virtual machine didn't help, I had to close all the way out of vSphere, when I reconnected I was able to add the ISO and image the virtual machine.

Missing Site Actions button in sharepoint

For me, my user wasn't in the Owners group.  Some sites would come up with Site Actions, some wouldn't.  Once I put myself in the Owners group I had full access and Site Actions appeared on every page.

iPhone won't download some apps

Got a new iPhone, newish... refurbished.
When I set it up, the country defaulted to Taiwan, no biggie, I scrolled down to my country and got it working.
Restored from iCloud, but some of my apps didn't reinstall.
Again, no problem, I went to iTunes and attempted to reload them.  Wouldn't work.  It would think about it and go right back to the cloud icon.
I reset the phone, again it defaulted to Taiwan, and I got everything set up, the restore from iCloud still didn't restore a couple of my apps.
The specific apps I had trouble with were My Fitness Pal and Pandora.
I signed out of iTunes and back in, and was able to install both after multiple attempts.

Still feeling like something was wrong, I did a hard reset on the phone.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6091113

Plug the iPhone into your computer
Press and hold the sleep/awake/power button until the apple icon comes on
hold the home button until the apple icon goes away and release the power button, still holding home.
The screen will display the iTunes logo and the USB connector.
Go into iTunes and reset the phone.

Mine said there was a problem with the phone and gave me the update or restore options.  I chose update.
It sat here for quite a while without indicating it was doing anything aside from downloading software.  Nothing changed on the phone, and iTunes looked like it was all done doing nothing.  Everything was grey.
After this finished, I went through the new phone setup, for the third time now.
This time, after selecting language, it defaulted to United States.  The restore from iCloud restored correctly.
I am a happy camper.

So, if you happen to get a refurbished iPhone and it defaults to a country other than yours, plug it into a computer loaded with iTunes and do a hard reset.

ubuntu 14 on raspberry pi

I used a class 4 32gb miniSD card.
I used a Mac to load the image onto the SD card
The ubuntu image is here:
ubuntu 14 download: Download 2015-04-06-ubuntu-trusty.zip

the link can also be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi


Here is where I got the steps to format the SD card
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac.md
I used their command line instructions
(https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md they have walkthroughs for Windows and Linux also)

    diskutil list

    Identify the disk (not partition) of your SD card e.g. disk4 (not disk4s1):

    diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<disk# from diskutil>

    e.g. diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4

    sudo dd bs=1m if=image.img of=/dev/<disk# from diskutil>

    e.g. sudo dd bs=1m if=2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img of=/dev/disk4

This may result in an dd: invalid number '1m' error if you have GNU coreutils installed. In that case you need to use 1M:

    sudo dd bs=1M if=image.img of=/dev/<disk# from diskutil>

This will take a few minutes.

where it says "if=image.img" you have to put the full path of the image.  I'm typically a windows user, so I'm used to doing c:/users/etc.  With mac it's similar, I had the image in my downloads folder, and the path is /Users/(username)/Downloads/(folder name for image)/(imagename.img)

After 'bs=" that is a 1(one)m.  I thought it was an L and kept getting errors.

"this will take a few minutes" is putting it lightly.  I have a new mac with an i5 and it took 15-20 minutes.  But being a class 4 SD probably slowed it down a bunch.


hit control+t to see the status of the transfer.


So when this is done, I put the card in my Pi and plugged it in.  Logged into ubuntu with the defaults (ubuntu/ubuntu for the user/pass) and was left at a command line.  Startx didn't do anything.  I bashed my head against the wall for the better part of a day trying to figure out why I kept running out of space, then returned to the original ubuntu wiki and found they had directions for exactly this kind of scenario.


Plug in the raspberry pi, log in (ubuntu/ubuntu)

$ sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

Delete the partition by typing: d (enter) 2 (enter)

Recreate partition by typing: n (enter) p (enter) 2 (enter) (enter) (enter)

Write to disk by typing: w (enter)

press ctrl+alt+del to reboot the system

log back in (ubuntu/ubuntu)

on the wiki.ubuntu site, it says to run this:

sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

to resize the partition, when I ran it the directory wasn't found...

type:

lsblk

to see your partitions and their paths.  My p2 took up the rest of my card.  So I continued on creating the swap file, which wants to be 2gb.

sudo apt-get install dphys-swapfile

This failed because I ran out of disk space... so I re ran the

sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

And it completed successfully. Ive been known to mistype paths, which probably happened when I originally ran resize2fs.
After it finished, I tried to rerun the dphys-swapfile but terminal told me to run:


sudo dpkg --configure -a

Then I was finally able to install ubuntu desktop

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop


After that, ubuntu was running.

But it was TERRIBLY slow.

I ran a slight overclock by editing the config.txt file per this website:

http://haydenjames.io/raspberry-pi-2-overclock/

In System Tools select UXterm or Xterm to get into Terminal
or hit ctrl+alt+T
type

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

At the bottom is a preloaded arm_freq option, I added the following

arm_freq=1000
sdram_freq=500
core_freq=500
over_voltage=2
gpu_mem=512
ctrl+O
ctrl+X


Close terminal and shutdown/reboot

Changing the arm_freq speeds up boot considerably,  The other settings help, but don't do much it seems.

Remember, you only have a 1gb of memory, streaming video like youtube is pretty painful, but if you let it buffer a bit it works fine.  Unless you go full screen...


*************************notes relating to not following directions************************

have to install the desktop for ubuntu.

First type: sudo apt-get update

Then type: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Again, this process takes a while (probably due to my class 4 card, but whatever, it was 10 bucks)


At this point I kept running out of disk space.  The previous process formatted 1.8gb of the 32gig card.

so I ran this instead

sudo dd bs=1m if=2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img of=/dev/rdisk3


which ran a lot faster than the previous method.

startx still didn't do anything

it told me to run:

sudo apt-get install xinit

this quickly ran and I got to a white terminal... nothing else.


formatted the SD card with Mac's Disk Utility.

Back in Terminal:

sudo diskutil unmountdisk disk1

sudo dd bs=1m if=/Users/(username)/Downloads/(folder containing image)/(image.img) of=/dev/rdisk1


again, using rdisk instead of disk made it go much faster.


on raspberry:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop


still not big enough, ran out of disk space


format, reload (rinse/repeat number 5 now.)

sudo apt-get update

sudo parted -l

get the device name for:

sudo fdisk /(devicename)

n for new partition

e for extended

enter defaults

sudo reboot

sudo parted -l

you will see a third partition using the rest of the disk space

sudo apt-get updated

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop


after following instructions on the first link...

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install xinit

ubuntu loaded after a restart, unable to login

sudo apt-get remove xinit

sudo apt-get clean ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

DNS not routing to forwarder in Forward Lookup Zones

I recently had an instance where the server name contained dashes only.
I configured an lookup zone and A record like I do with many other sites, but this one wouldn't work.
Ping name-name couldn't be found.

After some Googling, I determined DNS was seeing the name as a single label name.
I also found out WINS used to handle situations like this (no running WINS server on my network)
But Microsoft offers a solution for server 2008 and above called GlobalNames

I will put the scripts I ran in Powershell here, at the bottom are the pages I pulled the information from, their pages contain GUI instructions.

dnscmd servername /config /Enableglobalnamessupport 1 (you will do this step on all servers running DNS, cool thing about powershell is you can do it all from this one prompt, just up arrow, change the server name and hit enter.)
dnscmd servername /ZoneAdd GlobalNames /DsPrimary /DP /forest

At this point you can go into your DNS manager GUI (Start>Admin tools>DNS) go to your Forward Lookup Zone and find GlobalNames.
Right Click
New Host (A or AAA)
Enter the name (it will show up name.globalnames)
Enter IP address (remove checkmark in create associated pointer (PTR) record)

done.

I had to flush dns (ipconfig /flushdns) and I reran the 'enableglobalnamessupport 1' on a couple servers running DNS after creating the A record.

Restart services the easy way and without end user interaction

Occasionally I've had to do a full ip release and renew to get things working again.  When I'm remoted in I've done the ipconfig /release and had to have the end use type in ipconfig /renew.

There's been a 'solution' to my 'problem' all along:

ipconfig /release && ipconfig /renew

This will release the IP and renew the IP once the previous command completes.

This will also work if you have to do something like restart a spooler
net stop spooler && net start spooler

Or any other services that you have to stop start rather than just restart.

WDS completes, no boot device on startup.

F1 to retry

You know the error screen.

Situation:
Dell Latitude e7440, solid state drive
Came with windows 8, used WDS to put vanilla W7.
W7 completes, but doesn't boot.

I went into BIOS, secure boot was disabled
UEFI was enabled, changed to legacy and it booted right up.

Also, with these e7440, I've been moving the SSD into the MSATA port.  I had an issue with one of the first e7440 that was losing the regular SATA connection, randomly.  I'd get the system and it would boot up, everything would be fine, I'd send it back to the user, it wouldn't work again.  The back panel is kind of flimsy, so I can only assume he was holding it toward the top, or the docking station was pressing against the cable causing the hard drive connection to come loose.

Move computers to groups in logmein central

Sounds simple right?  I was in Details view and for whatever reason I couldn't figure it out until I switched to List view.
I'm using Chrome to load the Logmein Central page.

Change to List view
Click the drop down by the computer you want to change and go to Properties
On this window you'll have a drop down for the groups you've created
Select the group and save