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Lync not populating contact cards phone numbers from Active Directory

So you have Lync, and every time you want to look up an extension of someone in your office you are left with nothing. Why, Why is this, why doesn’t things just work. As frustrating as this may be it happens for a reason. Lync expects all the phone numbers in Active Directory to be in the […]

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Raspberry Pi – Root FS on USB Thumb Drive

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton Today I worked on resetting up my Raspberry Pi with a minimal image from Chris’s Digital Realm. I like this image because its very basic and does what one would want. Boot, and assigned an IP Address via DHCP, and best of all, fits on a […]

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How to remove Google+ hangout apps

Log into your Google account and find your way to your Google+ Next click on settings (gear icon), which take you into the accounts area Click on security, then click edit on Authorizing applications and sites Locate the Google+ hangout app you would like to remove (revoke access) Click Revoke Access The application should now […]

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Identify Microsoft SQL Server version & edition

I wanted to determine which version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 was running on one of my servers. So I opened up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), and ran the following command as a new query window: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY (‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’) The following results are returned: -The product version (for example, 10.0.1600.22) -The […]

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PS3 Media Server – Simplified

Hello Friends This time around I will provide some details on setting up the PS3 Media Server software on your Linux/Ubuntu install. This time the steps have been simplified. So please follow my steps and you should be up and running in no time at all. Step 1. – Install Ubuntu Server or Desktop (I […]

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Cannot allocate memory Issue

There has been a few times I have seen this message. Each time it had to do with my moving files in and out of a mounted network share from my Linux box. Tonight while moving files around and doing some scanning. I found myself with the error above. After rebooting my Windows 7 host […]