disable LDAPS/SSL weak ciphers

Disable weak ciphers in Windows 2003 DC LDAPS protocol on a domain controllers:

you may follow the tip from http://www.curtis-lamasters.com/2008/06/21/windows-iis-ssl-restrict-weak-ciphers/

Linux from USB

A reminder - there is a great tool UNETBOOTIN that allows to create USB bootable for many distros - Ubuntu, Suse, FreeBSD, etc.

Windows 7 profile problems

In order to delete local copies of romaing profile, together with C: profile directory, you needs to clean ProfileList registry. Otherwise Windows 7 goes crazy.

Nessus scripts and credentials protection

Please read here to set Windows domain account that can be used in Nessus scripts:

http://www.nessus.org/documentation/nessus_domain_whitepaper.pdf

The account has registry read access, however it's not part of Domain admins.

Window position is off screen - black magic

right click on window in taskbar – select Move, then move mouse a little bit – you should see 4 arrows cursor– then press _keyboard_ arrow then left click mouse – windows will appear on the desktop

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/

Sharepoint config LDF log is huge

Running into disk space issue on Sharepoint server. The LDF file of Sharepoint config is 25GB. Not good!

there are some other users who went throught this: http://mindsharpblogs.com/bill/archive/2005/01/14/181.aspx
http://boris.gomiunik.net/2008/10/sharepoint-config-database-log-file-too-big-reduce-it/

Sharepoint Search account

I have an error "Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content" in the search crawl of http://intranet

Apparently, the server can not access itself with an Cname alias. The "intranet" is indeed Cname DNS alias for the server. If you have this case you should read this.

http://harbar.net/archive/2009/07/02/disableloopbackcheck-amp-sharepoint-what-every-admin-and-developer-should-know.aspx

and this

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointsearch/thread/84f93fbe-f4a6-4683-b25b-b595b9006ad7