Outlook 2010 – You don’t have appropriate permission to perform this operation – Import PST

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While attempting to import a PST you may receive the error: You don’t have appropriate permission to perform this operation

The most common cause of this is profile specific. Try creating a new mail profile using these instructions from Microsoft, and import it to the new profile instead.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us

Otherwise, check to see if Group Policy is disabling PST usage.

The danger of FreeNAS for your data

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The following is simply my perception of reality based on forum posts, articles, and conversations throughout the internet.

It seems that ZFS itself may be a great filesystem. The issue itself is FreeNAS implementation of ZFS administration – in particular, the Web UI. From what I’ve read there are some real and serious dangers of the web interface not actually performing the operations it should be performing, and causing data loss.

For example: the best way to replace a failed disk in a FreeNAS implementation is to use the CLI. After which time the Web UI will be out of date. Some accepted forum posts on the official FreeNAS board actually suggest (and this is accepted by other members) that after a replace is performed and the new disk is resilvered, that the admin reinstalls FreeNAS from scratch, and reimports the filesystem.

If this is the case, it seems that it may be much safer for your data to learn to use FreeBSD and the ZFS implementation there, utilize hardware RAID instead, or find another answer (NFS on a linux server, a Windows install if that’s more comfortable for you (Windows has a free iSCSI server now), etc). Otherwise, make sure you’re doing backups to another location or only storing non-critical data, and you’re using the raid z2 implementation to protect data as much as possible while you figure out how to replace the disk.

Comments are welcome, but I wanted to see if I could try to cloud the rose colored lens about FreeNAS that seems to develop after reading the first few pages of most search results.

Search for FreeNAS disk replacement or browse the Help / Support section of the official FreeNAS forums for more information on these issues.

Uninstall Trend Micro without password

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Simply enter regedit, browse to HKLM\Software\Trend Micro\PC-cillinNTCorp\Misc.\

Change the key “allow uninstall” to be 1, and you will no longer be prompted for a password.

I performed this with trend micro unloaded. In order to do this, you may need to set the unload password to 70 in ofcscan.ini in the Program Files directory for Trend Micro and enter 1 as the password when prompted during unload. Unload may not be required, however, so try without first. If you search for “uninst” in notepad when entering this new value, you can also enable uninstall in the INI. This had no effect for me, but may have contributed to the end solution.

Outlook 2007 won’t close properly after installing Lync

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This issue actually presented itself in a unique way. A user was complaining of issues with her NK2 file (the file that saves the addresses of intended recipients of email drafted in Outlook). Reviewing the file, I could see that it hadn’t been changed since about 5 months previously, which is when Lync had been installed. Whenever Outlook would be closed, it would remain running in the background and not close properly, preventing any new writes to the NK2 file.

Luckily this is easily repaired, and is a known issue.

Simply enable logging in Lync (through Settings > General > Enable logging). This will allow Outlook to close properly and should solve any associated issues.

The local security authority cannot be contacted

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I received the error: “the local security authority cannot be contacted” when trying to RDP into a 2008 server in another domain.

Upon entering the console (in VMWare in this case) I was able to login locally, but was prompted for a password change.

So – in short, the issue could be that your password has expired in whatever security authority the server is using to authenticate. This is obviously more of an issue with NLA type RDP sessions.

Repair Out of Sync Standby / Read-Only Microsoft SQL Database configured with log shipping

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When a log shipping configured stand-by database becomes out of sync, there are a few ways to fix it. Usually there is a threshold of about 45 minutes where after that point, manual intervention is required. When this occurs, it’s usually easily enough to restore the transaction logs manually. Remember to choose the proper options to “RESTORE WITH STANDBY”.

If this doesn’t work, it’s still easy enough to repair. Stop all of the associated backup, transfer, and restore jobs in the log shipping configuration, delete the standby database, and restore a copy of the database. Do a manual log backup and restore, and then start the log shipping jobs again!

PS3 Media Server with the Logitech Revue

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My newest frustration with media sharing at home has been trying to get the Logitech Revue to be a useful part of my media streaming adventures.

Unfortunately, my DNLA server of choice, PS3 Media Server, doesn’t really support the Revue. I’m forced to have two media devices in that room if I’d like to use my Google TV.

I’ve been looking for a solution to this issue on the PS3 Media Server forums, however I’ve not found anything but a few fruitless queries.

Hopefully this is something that’s repaired when the Honeycomb based Google TV firmware is released for the device.

If anyone has any solution or has experimented with the new 3.1 based firmware, please post your experiences!