Setting up Split-Split DNS with Windows SBS 2003 DNS Services, easily.

Have you ever wondered how you could access your external hostnames, internal to your network connected via wifi, mobile devices or just plain old desktops? Today we found out we needed to. Our mobile devices require the use of external hostnames to sync data against. And it’s nice being able to use our external hostname [...]

Monitoring Asterisk with SNMP, Nagios and Nagios Administrator using Ubuntu LTS 8.0.4 Server

Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to [...]

Adding Sharepoint WSP templates on SBS 2003

Here’s a quick list so you don’t have to type in all those CLI lines.. This will add the 20 application templates to Sharepoint 3 on your SBS or other Sharepoint server.. stsadm –o addsolution –filename AbsenceVacationSchedule.wsp stsadm -o deploysolution -name AbsenceVacationSchedule.wsp -allowgacdeployment -immediate stsadm –o addsolution –filename BudgetingTrackingMultipleProjects.wsp stsadm –o deploysolution –name BudgetingTrackingMultipleProjects.wsp -allowgacdeployment [...]

SBS 2003 Disable Sync of Certain Offline Files like .PST or .MDB

Today I was noticing that some clients on the network were experiencing errors when users logged out and windows synced for them. In order to fix this, I had to do the following: TS to SBS Server Navigate to \\SBS\netlogon Edit the SBS_LOGIN_SCRIPT.bat file in this directory. It should look like: \\SBS\Clients\Setup\setup.exe /s SBS Change [...]