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Run YOURLS on IIS 7

By Howard | Published August 23rd, 2010

If you’re running YOURLS on an IIS 7 box you’ll need the correct settings in your web.config to perform the URL Rewriting. An example web.config with the correct settings is below.

RegExCatchAll Transport Agent for Exchange 2007/2010

By Howard | Published May 29th, 2010

How moving email services to an Exchange Server revealed email suffix matching as a missing feature, and how to implement that feature using a Transport Agent.

Fix orphaned SQL Server users

By Howard | Published March 11th, 2010

I always forget this in between using it, so for the benefit of future Howard, here’s how to fix orphaned users resulting from restoring a SQL database to a different machine.

IIS7 web.config fun

By Howard | Published March 8th, 2010

I spent some time last weekend migrating the Work Avoidance site away from Gradwell and onto a dedicated virtual server from MEMSET. Since this involved a move to a Windows box away from UNIX hosting, I had to configure in IIS7 some of the settings I had in the .htaccess under the UNIX host.

Java Update 13 breaks Cisco SDM 2.5

By Howard | Published April 22nd, 2009

Another post in a series designed to help Future-Howard work out why things have broken.
If you install Java 6 Update 13 and then try and log into Cisco SDM 2.5 it will fail. The SDM console will not load.
I found I had to go back to Java 6 Update 6 (available at the Java…

LDAP Query based on account SID in VBscript

By Howard | Published January 9th, 2008

This is a bit of code I wish I’d found sooner. There is a – it seems mostly undocumented – feature of the ldap provider in Server 2003 that allows you to form an ldap query just on the SID of an account:

bindSid = "LDAP://<sid =" & SID & ">"
set oVal = GetObject(bindSid)
Result =…

Graphing Counter-Strike Source FPS/Users in MRTG on Windows

By Howard | Published December 4th, 2007

In my last post, you discovered my obsession for generating statistics on my network usage and my use of MRTG to draw pretty little graphs. Writing that post got me thinking about my Counter-Strike server, and what data I could usefully graph from it. A bit of Googling led me to this page…

VB.NET to C# and C# to VB.NET Translator

By Howard | Published July 31st, 2007

This code translator is very handy.  Give it some C# and it will spit out VB.NET, give it VB.NET and it’ll give you C#.  Some of the code samples for manipulating Word documents are in VB.NET and I wanted to see them in C#.  I could have tried to translate them myself but this saved…

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