Disabling IPv6 in Vista
As part of troubleshooting the Cisco VPN with my Vista system, I’ve been asked to “turn off” IPv6, just in case. I decided to take the compreh...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
Reset Offline Files cache
For my reference, mostly… In Windows XP: In Explore’s Tools → Folder Options → Offline Files, then press CTRL+SHIFT and click the “Delete ...
LifeHacker – Best Free Apps for Windows Mobile
LifeHacker has just posted a nice list of free applications for Windows Mobile, like my Treo 700w. Don’t skip the discussion thread; there are lots of fol...
Viewing Deleted objects in Active Directory
Working through the AD preparation for an application install, and I’m logged into the emtpy root domain as a schema admin. Running the setup application,...
Office 2007 MIME Types
Here’s an MSDN blog post which enumerates the MIME types for Office Applications, and in particular the Office 2007 Open XML formats. These are needed for...
CLI configuration of network interfaces
I like GUIs, but I also like getting things done via the command line. I was hunting around to see if there was a way to change the MTU setting for my NICs with...
VPN trouble in Waterman Café
I connected to Cat’s PAWS in the Waterman Café, and then ran the VPN client. I logged in and got connected. I received a GMail notification of an incomin...
File hash verification utility
Every now and then, I want to make sure that a file I’m downloading — especially from a mirror site — hasn’t been currupted in transit, ...
SP1 activation issue solved
Although we have not yet approved Vista SP1 for distribution via WSUS, I have worked with the beta and recently installed the release version via Windows Update...
Outlook 2003 and UVM IMAP
Today, I had a request for some help configuring Outlook 2003 to work with UVM’s IMAP services. Before I started using WordPress for my website, I had wri...