The error is: The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

I had added this 2008 Server to the domain, and I can still login with a local admin, but not my domain account. The fix was to disable UAC, then it worked.

Question/Issue: Is ESX server Vmotion supported with SAV and SEP?

Symptoms: There have been many issues reported a few examples are, Client communication problems Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) communication issues Content update failures Policy update failures Client data does not get entered in to the database Replication failures

Solution:Symantec does not support ESX server Vmotion at this time.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2008101607465248?Open&seg=ent

Instead of notepad or wordpad, try Textpad or Ultraedit
http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html
http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/ultraedit_download.html

Instead of Adobe Reader, try Foxit
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Instead of Adobe Elements, try Primo PDF
http://www.primopdf.com/

Ok, this was a really hard one to solve. I tried everything you can think of to get this to work. I found a great manual online, good work to the author here:
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/09/exchange-server-2007-setting-message_10.html

I also found some good troubleshooting steps here as well:
http://forums.msexchange.org/m_1800436085/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#1800436085

However, that still didn't help me, this was an upgrade from 2003 exchange, I modifed the ADSIEDIT stuff, the send/receive connectors, the transport connectors, the global settings, the mailbox settings, etc..etc... I still got the #550 5.3.4 SMTPSEND.OverAdvertisedSize; message size exceeds fixed maximum size ## error.

Now exchange 2007 out of the box has a 10mb email size limit. I could send 13mb attachments, just not 15+. This is odd for several reasons, but let me explain the eventual fix. I was trying to "double" the size to 20mb from 10mb, so I went from 10240 to 20480 in the "size" settings.

We enabled verbose logging on the Edge SMTP machine, it showed the 18mb test email I was sending was actually 25xxx in size, so my 18mb attachment, the "SMTP" size of the email was 25 megs-ish. We increased the sizes up to 30000 and blamo..20mb email attachments now work. I tried sending from gmail and another exchange server, both significantly increased the size of these emails with the 18mb attachment. I'm not sure why, but that is a problem for another day.

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html , another one of those, you view the web page with a malicous PDF document and you get a Virus or Trojan types.

In order to get ourselfs up to date, you need to push this out to alot of machines. Since 8.1.2 isn't good enough anymore, you probably need the 8.1.3.msi file. Since I can't get it to extract using the "approved Adobe methods" http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400540, I had to resort to going straight to the ftp site for adobe

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/8.x/8.1.3/enu/AdbeRdr813_en_US.msi

Now that i've got the MSI, it'll be cake to push out.

If your like me, you like to have alot of scripts copying backup files around, and doing other things, cleaning up directories, etc..
I found the coolest tool called "Blat"
http://www.blat.net/

You can use it to send yourself these .txt files, it also does alot more, but that's all I need.

set dow=%date:~0,3%
Blat results%dow%.txt -to bsmith9999@gmail.com -server SMTPSERVER -f Server@domain.com

To enable Windows Single Sign-on follow these steps:
Log in to a workstation where the VI Client is installed.
Right-click the desktop and select New > Shortcut.
In the Create Shortcut Wizard, click Browse and navigate to the location of the VpxClient.exe program and click OK.Note: By default it is located in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\
After the full path is in the Type the location of the item field append -passthroughAuth -s to the end of the line, where is the hostname or IP Address of the VirtualCenter instance you want to connect to.
Click Next.
Give a Name for the shortcut.
Click Finish.
After the shortcut has been created, double-click on the new shortcut, and you are logged into the VirtualCenter Server using the currently logged in credentials.

Note: If the currently logged in user does not have appropriate permissions to VirtualCenter log in fails.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006611

Ok, so I inherited the exchange environment, no biggie, but I need to create a new public folder on the root, however, I dont have rights. 2007 SP1 has a new command I can use.

Add-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission -Identity "\Marketing" -User "Chris" -AccessRights AllExtendedRights -Inheritance SelfAndChildren
from:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996369(EXCHG.80).aspx

However, my only question was (and I know i'm a noob) how do I add myself to ALL public folders, I just had to change the identity to "\"

Also to list your Identity's, use this command
Get-PublicFolder –GetChildren