You can easily get a list of all users that are member of a specific active directory group with the following command: net group /domain [GROUP-NAME] Hope this helps somebody…
Read more…XenServer 5.6: Add /var/log/btmp to logrotate
Warning: Since a large /var/log/btmp could indicate that somebody runs brute force attacks against your system, you may should at least think about changing the ssh port or setting up tools like DenyHosts or Fail2Ban (see here for more information about preventing ssh brute force attacks). By default logrotate seems not be configured for the [...]
Read more…Hosting WCF services in IIS: Fix URLs of WSDL files that include internal domain or machine names
If you host your WCF service in the IIS web server and have the problem, that the URLs of the WSDL files contain internal domain names (or your machine names) that cannot be resolved by the clients when trying to consume the service you will find three possible options to resolve this issue in this [...]
Read more…My daily DotNetNuke: Workaround for “Validation of viewstate MAC failed” exception when using the DNN 7 login form in multiple tabs
As I’ve written in one of my previous posts, I found out that one gets a “Validation of viewstate MAC failed” exception when submitting a DNN login form and the login status has changed from “not logged in” to “logged in” after the login form initially was loaded (e.g. by using an addition browser tab [...]
Read more…My daily DotNetNuke: ModuleController.UpdateTabModuleSetting() truncates setting names to 50 characters
This is the second blog post in my new “My daily DotNetNuke” blog series and it’s about a problem I found out when saving TabModuleSettings in my custom module. Generally, saving ModuleSettings and TabModuleSettings in DotNetNuke is very straightforward: The DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ModuleController offers two simple update methods: UpdateModuleSetting(int ModuleId, string SettingName, string SettingValue) for updating ModuleSettings [...]
Read more…SubsonicTools: Export all playlists from Subsonic Music Streamer to .m3u playlist files
Starting with version 4.7 (changelog), the Subsonic Music Streamer no longer saves playlists as .m3u files but stores the playlist information in its internal database to offer a more sophisticated playlist management (like shared and private playlists). Before version 4.7 it was very easy to share the Subsonic playlists with other media servers that also [...]
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