This page just has random stuff that I couldn't find elsewhere online.
(Obviously it's a work in progress)

Most of the things here are things I searched online for but couldn't find.  It's my hope that by placing these here, other people will benefit from my work.

A friend of mine needed an image of the Windows XP Login screen (Gina) that had the logos for both keyboard and Smart card.  I did a search on Google Images and couldn't find one in English, so I used VNC, connected to my computer and took a screen capture.

I think I've found a bug/glitch with Windows Server 2003 Services... If you want to set a service to Log On using a specific account you must use the form domain\username when specifying the account.  I recently used the Browse feature and that populated the "This Account:" field with the username in the form username@domain.  When I clicked apply or OK I'd get "Access is Denied".  As soon as I changed the form to domain\username all worked well.

Here's what I'd call another Windows Server 2003 Bug.  IIS 6.0 Host headers are ignored if you set one of the headers to be the IP address of the machine.  One way host headers can be used is to ensure that people are only hitting your site using specific host names.  So you can put in things like the fully qualified domain name, and the local machine name for instance.  I recently tried also adding a computer's internal IP address (so we could still hit it by internal IP address for testing), but once I did that, I could hit it by it's external IP address, or any host name I added to the hosts file on my workstation.  So if you're using host headers to restrict how people get your web site, don't include the machine's IP address (Internal or external).

I just ran into a problem installing a piece of software that uses a 16 bit installer.  I'm using Windows Server 2003 as a guest in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.  When I run the installer when it gets to checking the hard disk space I get "NTVDM encountered a hard error" and I can only click OK to close the installer.  To work around this issue, I rebooted the virtual machine to Safe Mode with Command Prompt, then ran the installer again.  Everything worked fine.  Sometime I may try this in a VMWare Workstation image, but I haven't had a chance to do that yet.

I've always wondered if there was a limit to the number of e-mail addresses assigned to a mailbox in Microsoft Exchange 2003.  Well tonight I found out that the limit is 166 messages.  The mailbox can handle 318+ aliases, but the Message Tracking Center pops up an error when you select the user and run a search.  The error is "An unknown error has occurred.  ID no: 8004106c  Exchange System Manager".  If someone knows a way around this I'd appreciate knowing about it.