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Missing Mail Icon in Vista Control Panel

A lot of people have been asking “Where is my mail icon” in Vista?

Chances are you have Vista 64bit.
The “mail” icon is in a sub folder called “32 bit control panel”

Enjoy!

Rebuild Exchange 2003 Virtual Directories

I was having trouble with OMA and it turns out that part of the IIS structure was corrupt. This is straight from Microsoft to rebuild the Virtual Directories for Exchange.

Support KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=280823

  1. Download and install the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. To obtain the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site

    If you do not want to install all the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, click the Custom installation option to install only Metabase Explorer 1.6.

  2. Start IIS Manager.
  3. Back up the metabase. To do this, right-click Default Web Site, click All Tasks, and then click Save Configuration to a File. Type a filename for the file and click OK.
  4. Expand Default Web Site, and then delete the following virtual directories:
    • Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
    • OMA
    • Exadmin
    • Exchange
    • Public
    • ExchWeb
  5. Start Metabase Explorer. To do this, click Start, point to All Programs, point to IIS Resources, point to Metabase Explorer, and then click Metabase Explorer.
  6. Expand the LM key, right-click the DS2MB key, and then click Delete.
  7. Close Metabase Explorer.
  8. Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service to re-create the virtual directories in IIS.Note If the virtual directories are not re-created after 15 minutes, restart the server.
  9. In IIS Manager, expand Default Web Site, right-click Exchweb, and then click Properties.
  10. Click the Directory Security tab, and then click Edit under Authentication and access control.
  11. Verify that only the Enable anonymous access check box is selected.
  12. Right-click Default Web Site, and then click Stop.
  13. Right-click Default Web Site, and then click Start.

SATA RAID on Dell ICH7R

Recently, I had a request to wipe out a Dell Optiplex 330. This machine had a RADI1 mirror, and like most drivers, I went to Dell’s web site to download. This is the second time I tried installing the driver from a USB floppy on different machines…both getting BSOD on install.

So, I figured I would write the quick solution.

For some reason, the Windows install only picks up the first 4 drivers in the list..maybe this is by design. To get the correct driver (ICH7R):

1. Extract the driver download as usual
2. Open up “txtsetup.oem” in notepad
3. Under “Component Section”, delete the ICH8/9 Lines

That’s it! Windows will now display the correct driver references on install.

Anonymous Network Printing Windows 2003

If you’re dealing with a client or company that has roaming laptops, you definitely want a way to have anonymous printing. After all, it’s such a pain to have to authenticate these users or guests. You would think that giving “everyone” permissions full access on both NTFS and the printer share would do the trick. Nope..not true. Even if you go into GPO and enable “everyone” to include anonymous logins, it still won’t work. The only way to get this route to work is to turn on the “guest” account and open a lot of holes during authetication through SAM configuration, etc. Regardless, it’s a mute point….THERE’S A BETTER WAY!!

Welcome to “Internet Printing” through IIS. When installing IIS through Windows Add/Remove, make sure to check the “Internet Printing” box in the IIS sub-menu (right above NNTP and SMTP). This will install a virtual directory in your “default web site” called “printers”.

Here’s the next step and most important. Right click the “printers” virtual directory in IIS and go to properties. The “directory security” tab is where all the magic happens. As you probably guessed, you want to allow “anonymous access”. Now, go to the IP Address and Restrictions. Deny all access except your companies/clients subnet. If you don’t this this step, and you have port 80 forwarding through your firewall, anyone will be able to print and view your printers.

Navigate to: http://servername/printers

You will see your servers printers (assuming you already installed them). You can click on a printer then view it’s properties in the left menu. You will see the path to the printer. Copy this path for when installing a new printer on a laptop.

Next, simple go to the laptop and “add printer”. Then choose the “connect” option and type the http:// path from above.

Viola!

Here’s the corresponding KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323428

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