So K2 has had some issues when building the cached images on K2 items. When you add an image, either from the server or from your PC, it is converted to .jpg instead of the original, transparent .png.
Let’s give credit where credit is due, special thanks to Stephen Austin over on the K2 forums and to David Goode and the dev team over on the Rockettheme forums. Thanks a lot for your assist with this fix guys!
What a pain, let’s fix it:
I am using K2 2.4.1 as well as RokStories 2.0. Here are the edits I made, I will provide downloadable copies of these files soon.
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I have not yet written about Joomla!, but it’s time I do. It’s one of my deep held secrets because it works, and it works well as a CMS. I won’t go into it here, just keep an eye open for more articles on the subject. This one is about a backup utility for Joomla! that you can use to move Joomla! powered sites around. Even from your local computer’s WAMP or LAMP lab, out to a live site on the internet.
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Just a quick note, but I came across something I have not yet, because I have not sat down and read the documentation on 2007 and 2010 yet! Shame on me, but experience is a great teacher… That said, I was sitting out at the ferry dock on Boingo Wireless the other day, and noticed a certificate warning. Well, I already have a UCC cert in place since I’m hosting for two domains on IIS and using host headers, both mail and remote (SBS server). So what was going on was, I did not yet sign into Boingo, so all my requests were being dumped to their default page, and of course, Outlook can’t connect until you log in. So I also found that I got the same thing from home, and had not yet registered autodiscover.domain.com. Just added it to the UCC, and made sure that all my external facing sites were correct under the client hub, and all was good, autoconfiguration when setting up a new mail account works flawlessly, including RPC over HTTP settings. Awesome!
I have always followed CookIT services guide on installing Big Brother as a guideline, and it has worked very well. It’s intended use is for Solaris, but it gives you what you need for a successful installation. Regarding the section to install RRDTool and LARRD, there are some differences and things to note.
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This issue comes up from time to time, as I have a backed up database that is no longer in use to restore files from. This can also be an issue if you need to export mail to PST for legal purposes. You can use a Windows 7 32 bit installation with Exchange 2007 32 bit ESM and PowerShell to accomplish the command:
Export-Mailbox –Identity <mailboxUser> -PSTFolderPath <pathToSavePST>
This is detailed on the following website, http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/04/13/437745.aspx.
Unfortunately, this cannot be used from an alternate database, such as the RSG. So the following command is in order:
Restore-Mailbox –RSGMailbox “Test User 1” -RSGDatabase “servername\RSG name\database name” –Identity “Test User 2” –TargetFolder “Test User 1 Recovered data”
This command will restore mail from the RSG database to a folder inside of a mailbox you define under the Identity switch. Once completed, you can export the resulting set of folders into a PST from Outlook. The upside to this is that you don’t need a special 32 bit workstation to accomplish it as well. Please see the following article for more about working with Exchange 2007 RSG, http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Working-Recovery-Storage-Groups-Exchange-2007.html.
Just had to do this again recently and was having issues. Here is the script you need to create.
Make the client automatically start on boot
If you wish to start BB automatically at startup, create a file called bbc and put it in your /etc/init.d dir:
# vi /etc/init.d/bbc
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425-513-1888
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I have to hand it to Renegade. I purchased a really nice leather jacket up at their Everett store, here about 3 months ago. I rode daily after that, and I’m pretty hard on my gear, I guess, because in that time, I sheared two clasps (shoulder and wrist), and one of the zippers.
I was fully expecting to pay a seamstress when I brought it back by to make the repairs. As it turns out, Renegade covered all the work under warranty! And since the zipper cannot be repaired, they are ordering and replacing the jacket! I can’t say enough about these guys, they stand behind their product 110%. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
I know this is a technical blog, but this kind of business ethic must be appreciated, and many companies would find themselves with loyal customers if they followed this example.
This is a procedure I’ve had to use a lot of times. Credit to the following blog for this information. Repeated here, so it’s not lost and for my quick reference.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tonyschr/archive/2004/04/19/116245.aspx
Let’s say you’re in a situation where you can’t log into your XP machine because you forgot to click that checkbox. psexec to the rescue!
psexec \\machinename reg add “hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server” /f /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0
I shouldn’t have to say that this isn’t in any way supported, or that it’s not going to work if you’re not already an admin on the machine that has RD access, or that a firewall will get in the way, or that there may be better ways to do it using script or WMI, but I’ve found it useful on a couple occasions.
Thanks goes out to vlho in this thread for this information. For editing MSI files, I prefer the FREE Orca, which can be downloaded here. It is duplicated here:
Warning: This hacking is not supported by VMware !
1/ extract iso image of vCenter (e.g. in 7zip) to any folder in destination machine
2/ download application for editing msi file and install
e.g. Insted from http://www.instedit.com/download.html
3/ run this application and open file …\vpx\VMware vCenter Server.msi
4/ in Tables click on item “LaunchCondition”
5/ on the right find row with text:
“Installed Or (VersionNT>=501 And VersionNT < 600) Or (VersionNT = 600 And MsiNTProductType <> 1) Or (VersionNT = 601 And MsiNTProductType = 3)”
and modify it to:
“Installed Or (VersionNT>=501) Or (VersionNT = 600 And MsiNTProductType 1) Or (VersionNT = 601 And MsiNTProductType = 3)”
after that save and close
6/ download 64-bit verison of Microsoft AD LDS (new name for ADAM) from:
Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1b7f0a5-2131-44fd-9dde-fa146154e13a
Windows 7:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a45059af-47a8-4c96-afe3-93dab7b5b658
and install
7/ run ..\autorun.exe to install vCenter
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good luck
Edit: Screenshot below of the LaunchCondition table as seen in Orca:
09/27/11 – Please see below comments for ESX 5. The link ishttp://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-16950
Regurgitation continues…
Some vendors license their application per processor, also in a virtualized environment. So if your VM has 4 vCPU’s your vendor will want you to buy a 4 processor license for the application. But you can avoid this by telling the VM that it has cores instead of processors. In others words, instead of having 4 processors you would have 1 processor with 4 cores:
1. Power off the VM
2. Right click on the VM and select “Edit Settings…”
3. Select the “Options” tab
4. Click on “General” (in the “Advanced” options section)
5. Click “Configuration Parameters…” (in the pane on the right)
6. Click “Add Row”
7. Enter “cpuid.coresPerSocket” in the “Name” column
8. Enter a value (try 2, 4, or 
in the “Value” column
9. Click “OK”
10. Power on the VM
The VM will now appear to the OS as having multi-core CPUs with the number of cores per CPU given by the value that you selected. For example, if you create an 8 VCPU VM and set “cpuid.coresPerSocket = 2″ it will be recognized as 4 dual-core CPU’s by the OS while it’s actually utilizing 8 physical cores.
Keep in mind that this feature is currently unsupported!
