In order to make a USB device available to a Virtualbox guest, you need to have the device physically plugged into the VMhost, (the machine running Virtualbox Server) but it CANNOT BE MOUNTED. (I screamed that last part because it’s important.)
To do this, you’ll need to use the Windows diskpart command to disable automatic drive enumeration on a Windows server installation with the following commands:

diskpart
automount disable
automount scrub
exit

Now, reboot your VMHost, and Virtualbox will allow you to capture and use the USB device in the guest OS. And Robert remains your mother’s sister’s brother. ;)

For some reason, Microsoft’s default configuration for Exchange 2007 and 2010 exposes the internal server name in the mail headers, which causes most reverse-record-checking sites to bounce your email.

##EXCHANGE 2007##
To address this issue, you must remove the “NT AUTHORITYAnonymous Logon”? permissions from the send connector. Open the Exchange Management Shell, and do this:
>get-sendconnector (this will show the name of the send connector.)
SEND CONNECTOR NAME

>get-sendconnector <send CONNECTOR NAME>? | Remove-ADPermission -AccessRight ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights ms-Exch-Send-Headers-Routing? -user "NT AUTHORITYAnonymous Logon"

## EXCHANGE 2010##
1. Go to Exchange Management Console
2. Under Organization Configuration, select Hub Transport
3. Select Transport Rules, then “New Transport Rule”
Give the Rule a name, then set the following:

Conditions: Sent to Users Outside the organization
Remove Header: Received
Exceptions: None

1. Go to the Windows SBS Console, click on Network Tab, then click the Connectivity Tab
2. Click on the certificate icon, then click the “view certificate properties” in the right pane. In the “General” tab of the new window, it will show the dates that the self-signed certificate is valid for.
3. In the “Connectivity Tasks” area, click “Set up your Internet address”, go through the wizard to renew your self-signed SSL certificate.
4. When you now check the certificate properties, you will see that it is now valid for another two more years.

So, a couple of days ago, I did an in-place version upgrade to 11.04 on my laptop.
(Lenovo SL510 Core2Duo, 6GB of RAM, 300gb SATA)
Now, I *use* my laptop.. A lot. Every day. There are several applications at work that require Windows, so I boot virtual machines using Virtualbox, and bridge them to wherever I need them. After upgrading and rebooting, I logged in, and started a Windows 7 Enterprise VM, bridged to the wireless card. It started, I opened a web browser on the VM, and my homepage opened. This is not the cool part. Read on.
In the past, whenever I allowed my laptop to sleep, it would hang the X server, hang the VM, and sometimes even corrupt the disk image that was booted at the time. I haven’t been able to “sleep” this laptop since it was new. It *always* caused problems.
While my laptop was sitting there, freshly upgraded, with the VM booted and running and connected, I had an idea.
“Why not close the lid?” I thought. So, of course, I immediately did. I’m impulsive. whatever. ;)
I fully expected to open it up, have to switch to another virtual terminal, kill the X server, and start over.
This time, however, It. Just. Worked. tm
When I opened the lid, not only did the X server come back quickly, I logged in, was still online, and so was the *STILL WORKING* Windows 7 VM!! I had to do it 3 more times to make sure it wasn’t a fluke!! Since I probably spend somewhere near 6 hours a week shutting it down, and booting it up, this is fantastic!

Canonical rocks! Thank you for this release!!

Fire up SQL management studio express, and run this query:

DECLARE
@DisplayName VARCHAR(256),
@Authentication VARCHAR(256),
@AuthenticatorTypeId INT,
@AuthenticatorInstanceId INT,
@ExternalAuthenticatorId VARCHAR(255),
@EncryptedPassword VARCHAR(256)

/************************************************************
Start of editing required section
*************************************************************/

SET @DisplayName = ‘System Administrator’ — Display name (Not always used)
SET @Authentication = ‘BAS’ — ‘BAS’ for BAS authentication
SET @EncryptedPassword = ‘7B7ECF0DAF70D040345D8DD92607E274969F4BA5DFDFAEAC5DE775E5340CDF605D5762EC5D326498ADBE72E7434897025A8702D0237046F554DBCA5769B90154:7637B189’ — Encrypted string of password ‘blackberry’

/************************************************************
End of editing required section
*************************************************************/

IF @Authentication LIKE ‘BAS’
BEGIN
SET @AuthenticatorTypeId = 0 — Set to 0 for BAS
SET @AuthenticatorInstanceId = 0 — Set to 0 for BAS
SET @ExternalAuthenticatorId = NULL

IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM BASUsers WHERE LoginName = ‘admin’)
EXEC SetUpBASorADAuthentication @DisplayName, @AuthenticatorTypeId, @AuthenticatorInstanceId, @ExternalAuthenticatorId, @EncryptedPassword
ELSE
UPDATE BASUsers
SET LoginPassword = @EncryptedPassword
WHERE (LoginName = ‘admin’)

END
GO

Now, with a preview of the running VM!! ;)

Find out with The National Broadband Map

“I can see the fiber, I just can’t get them to bring it here…” ;)

Are you ready for IPv6? You’d better be, because there’s no UNALLOCATED space left in the IANA pool for IPv4.
Anyone out there running IPv6 in production yet? I’ve been running it internally for a while now, but haven’t made the leap to the external interfaces yet. Benefits? Problems? anyone?

net time /setsntp:"0.us.pool.ntp.org,1.us.pool.ntp.org,3.us.pool.ntp.org"
net stop w32time
net start w32time
w32tm /resync

That’s the only Prometric test I’ve ever gotten a 100% on. (sweet)
I’m now IBM SystemX BladeCenter Technical Support v5 certified.
45 questions, given 1.5 hours. I finished in something like thirteen minutes.
Now, I’m only 1 test away from IBM Certified Systems Expert – System x BladeCenter Technical Support V5 certification.