Reference
A collection of articles on various topics that interest me. Written mostly in order to document my own solutions to problems, and published in the hope that they may help others save some time.
2011
Disabling Client-side Caching in RavenDB
While editing documents in RavenDB Management Studio for testing, it became evident that the changes were not reflected in the website that was using the database. By default, RavenDB caches client queries. This article describes how to disable this feature, should the need arise.
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Fixing MSExchange ADAccess Event 2937 PreviousDatabase
Active Directory stores a reference to each user’s previous mailbox database. In some cases, the value in this property may point to a database that no longer exists, i.e. when an Exchange server has been incorrectly removed from the domain or if the old mailbox database has been deleted.
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Adding Email-enabled SharePoint 2010 Lists to Exchange 2010 Address Book
After a long struggle you finally have successfully configured SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010 to support email-enabled lists and folders on SharePoint, and now you’re trying to figure out how to get convenient access to those email addresses from within Outlook or other email clients. This article describes how to end your day on a happy note.
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Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on Dell PowerEdge 1850, 2850
Many data centers have been updating their hardware to servers that support virtualization, so there are a lot of older Dell PowerEdge 1850s and 2850s available on eBay and Craigslist right now.
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2010
Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler Won’t Execute .bat Files
When setting up scheduled tasks on Windows Server 2008 that execute batch files that work fine when started manually, but refuse to produce any results when started from or by the scheduler, even though it proudly shows Task completed, there a few quick things to check.
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SQL Management Studio Express Install Fails with Exception
When installing SQL Server Management Studio on top of an existing SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 installation, the setup program may fail with an exception.
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Disabling SBSCore Service on Windows Home Server
The Small Business Server Core Services (SBCore) that come preinstalled with Windows Home Server prevent the server from effectively running Active Directory, joining an existing domain and sleeping for prolonged periods of time by periodically shutting it down or restarting it. The service itself cannot be disabled in the Services Manager, and it will restart itself if the process is terminated through Task Manager.
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Local SMTP Mail Relay with IIS 6.0
Allow your IIS hosted web sites to send emails via local SMTP relays.
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Asynchronous Streaming Reverse Proxy for IIS 6.0
I recently started to use Subsonic on my Windows Home Server to make my music collection available over the internet. Subsonic must be configured to run on a port other than port 80, because this port is already used by the IIS web server. This is a major inconvenience, because it may prevent you from accessing the media from firewall restricted networks, and it will make the URLs to your media server somewhat more ugly. In order to get around these two problems, IIS has to serve as a proxy for the server.
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