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Why Windows Activation Needs to go

November 24, 2009

Virtualization is the reason why.  I booted a image created inside Windows Virtual PC using Sun’s Virtual Box and this is what you get when you boot up.

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Will Microsoft allow multiply activations of an OS?  It’s just silly and doesn’t help with the promise of disaster recovery with the activation non-sense.

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Exchange ActiveSync Error

November 23, 2009

A customers Windows Mobile Phone stopped syncing e-mails, etc, looking at the server we could see this error within the logs.

Event Type:      Error
Event Source:    Server ActiveSync
Event Category: None
Event ID:           3005

Description:
Unexpected Exchange mailbox Server error: Server: [servername.domain.local] User: [user’s e-mail address] HTTP status code: [400]. Verify that the Exchange mailbox Server is working correctly.

After following the instructions linked to within in the error (that was after getting off the floor because the link actually worked), the problem still wasn’t resolved.

After a little Googling and not getting very far.  I noticed on another server that worked you could get to http://server/exchange/owa both internally and externally but only externally on the server that wasn’t working and the error code I received was a HTTP:400, which is the same code mentioned in the description.

This is a SBS 2003 box, so I ran the firewall wizard and after that I could get to http://server/exchange/owa internally as well as internally and the Windows Mobile Phone started syncing again. Problem resolved. :-)

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iPhone Screen shoot

November 4, 2009

Have you every seen an screen shot from an iPhone and thought how is that done?

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It’s really easy, press the home button and the power button at the same time and a screen shoot is taken and the image is added to the camera roll. :-)

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