Editing Cisco IOS ACLs

If you’ve administered Cisco PIX or ASA security appliances, you’ll know how easy editing ACLs is. If you want to insert a new rule in to an existing ACL you can easily insert it where you want. For example: access-list outside_access_in line 12 permit tcp host 1.1.1.1 host 2.2.2.2 eq 80   This will insert the rule at position 12 of the outside_access_in ACL, pushing the existing rule at position

Unable to Check Out Files, Create or Edit Pages in SharePoint

Recently had an issue with a SharePoint site where sometime over the weekend, the entire site broke and wouldn’t let anyone check files out of document libraries, upload new files, edit or create pages etc. The Check Out option on files was completely missing. Options under Site Settings were completely missing. When users opened Word and Excel documents from document libraries and tried the Check Out option from there, they’d

Virtual Hosting With mod_proxy

The other day I had someone ask if there’s a nice solution to the following problem: Multiple web development virtual machines but only one external IP address. The quick solution is to port forward on different ports to each virtual machine. For example 81 goes to VM1, 82 goes to VM2, 83 goes to VM3 etc. Which granted, would work, but isn’t a “neat” solution. Using mod_proxy under Apache is

Finding Bad Files That Upset ConfigMgr

I was assisting a customer with deploying Adobe CS3 via SCCM 2007 and was hitting a brick wall with the package deployment constantly failing on all machines with: Hash could not be matched for the downloaded content. Original ContentHash = 7C2BFDF0162EF4E5AE6D67EDED6F9A404B74D64B, Downloaded ContentHash = 5C338435615D6A6EAAFED329A97486D2D358CEA8 Failed to resolve the source for SMS PKGID=xxxxxxxx, hr=0x80091007 I spent ages checking for hidden files, checking the WebDAV configuration on the BITS enabled distribution