Monday 23 February 2015

Free, simple peer to peer sync tool BitTorrent Sync

What:

Sync for Windows/Mac/Linux/iPhone/Android

Problem:

You want to share large collection of pictures and videos with your family.

Thursday 19 February 2015

Zabbix, disable items on hosts created via template discovery rules

What:

Zabbix 2.4 on Ubuntu server

Problem:

You have "discovery rules" defined in your template, you link that template to the host, after a while host is populated with many items. Now you decided to disable some of the items, in template > item prototypes you change status to Disabled, that should be inherited by host, but it's not. This behaviour is apparently by design, more info here.

Thursday 12 February 2015

Samba 4 file server as an Active Directory member server

What:

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 with Samba v4.1.7

Challenge:

Setup and configure Samba file server working properly with Windows ACL's

Monday 9 February 2015

Import Outlook Auto-Complete list from another computer

What:

Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010/2013

Problem:

One of the most important functionality for Outlook users is autocomplete. After moving user to a new computer you want to preserve that list to avoid complains.

Sage 50 Accounts 2015 (UK) with network share on SBS 2008

What:

Sage 50 Accounts and Small Business Server 2008

Problem:

Customer has Sage data on the network share. He upgraded Sage Accounts software to 2015, which now requires installing Data Service on the SBS 2008. After installing service I still get the following error on the client's PC:
"Unable to connect to the Sage Data Service on machine <hostname>"