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Android phone unable to connect to Exchange Server

After a local server maintenance, my Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1.1) stopped connecting to the Exchange Server.
I removed the account to try re-adding the account and doing so lost all my emails, calendar and contacts.

No matter how hard I tried, I could not add my account “wind\jason.bickley”.
I always received the error “Could not connect to the server”.

However, when I tried puting in an intern’s credentials it could connect.
Our I.T. Manager then found the following solution and corrected it in Active Directory.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd439375(EXCHG.80).aspx

“In Exchange Server 2010, you may also experience this issue if the Exchange Servers group does not have the appropriate permission to the mailbox object in Active Directory. The most common cause for this is broken Access Control List (ACL) inheritance in Active Directory.”

To check whether inheritance is disabled on the user:

  1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. On the menu at the top of the console, click View > Advanced Features.
  3. Locate and right-click the mailbox account in the console, and then click Properties.
  4. Click the Security tab.
  5. Click Advanced.
  6. Make sure that the check box for “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” is selected.

If the user is a member of certain protected groups such as Domain Administrators, it is normal for this box to be unchecked. If you are experiencing a problem with members of these protected groups you should check the permissions on the AdminSDHolder object.”

Windows 7 logon screen keyboard issue

My logon screen defaulted to US English or UK English keyboards and I was not able to log in efficiently.

Fixed with the following steps:

Open Windows Control Panel:

control_panel_region

Click on “Copy settings”:

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Then check the first checkbox, followed by “OK”:

logon_screen_2

Changing the default keyboard to Japanese

When the machine first boots, the login screen defaults to the US QWERTY keyboard.
To change the default keyboard to something else, do the following:

More info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138354

Forcing Windows to use a Japanese keyboard

To force the operating system to use a certain keyboard, make the following changes in the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

Value name Value type Value data
LayerDriver JPN REG_SZ kbd106.dll
OverrideKeyboardIdentifier REG_SZ PCAT_106KEY
OverrideKeyboardSubtype DWORD 2
OverrideKeyboardType DWORD 7

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927824/en-gb

Installing Adobe CS2 on Windows 7 64-bit

My initial attempt to install Adobe CS2 onto Windows 7 64-bit (hereafter W764) was unsuccessful. W764 has two program folders:  “Program files” and “Program files (x64)”.

By default the installer will try to install into “Program files (x64)” and the unsupported characters “( )” make the path void. I changed this to the other “Program files” folder and continued the installation.

However, upon starting the programs, I was met with a “Your adobe photoshop user name, organisation, or serial number is missing or invalid” kind of error and the application quits automatically. Checking registry editor showed that there was indeed an issue with the installation paths.

Searching the problem on Google gave me the solution. The application must be installed into the “Program files (x64)” folder or it will not work. To do this, the path must be changed to:
C:\progra~2\adobe
in the  installation destination.

Installing Server Certificates (IIS 6.0)

After you have obtained a server certificate, you can install it. When you use the Server Certificate Wizard to install a server certificate, the process is referred to as assigning a server certificate.

Important

You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to perform the following procedure or procedures. As a security best practice, log on to your computer by using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the runas command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. At a command prompt, type runas /user:Administrative_AccountName “mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc”.

Procedures

To install a server certificate using the Web Server Certificate Wizard

1. In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, and then expand the Web Sites folder.
2. Right-click the Web site or file that you want, and then click Properties.
3. On the Directory Security or File Security tab, under Secure communications, click Server Certificate.
4. In the Web Server Certificate Wizard, click Assign an existing certificate.
5. Follow the Web Server Certificate Wizard, which will guide you through the process of installing a server certificate.

Note

When you use the Web Server Certificate Wizard to assign a certificate, you must specify a password before the certificate can be assigned to your Web server.

Related Information

For information about obtaining server certificates, see Obtaining Server Certificates.
For general information about certificates, see SSL and Certificates.

Obtaining a Server Certificate from a Third-party CA (IIS 6.0)

Important

You must be a member of the Administrators group on the local computer to perform the following procedure or procedures. As a security best practice, log on to your computer by using an account that is not in the Administrators group, and then use the runas command to run IIS Manager as an administrator. At a command prompt, type runas /user:Administrative_AccountName “mmc %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\iis.msc”.

Procedures

To obtain a server certificate from a third-party certification authority

1. In IIS Manager, double-click the local computer, and then double-click the Web Sites folder.
2. Right-click the Web site or file for which you want to request a certificate, and then click Properties.
3. On the Directory Security or File Security tab, under Secure communications, click Server Certificate.
4. In the Web Server Certificate Wizard, on the Delayed or Immediate Request page, click Prepare the request now, but send it later. By default, the certificate request file is saved as C:\Certreq.txt, but the wizard allows you to specify a different location.
5. Complete the rest of the steps in the Web Server Certificate Wizard and then click Finish.
6. Send the request to the certification authority. The CA will process the request and then send you the certificate.

Related Information

For information about other ways to obtain server certificates, see Obtaining Server Certificates.
For information about installing server certificates, see Installing Server Certificates.
For general information about certificates, see SSL and Certificates.