Been a while since I had a go at this site: http://www.try2hack.nl . An interesting series of “Hacking” challenges that’s been online for the past 7+ years 
Give it a go – how far did you get?
A very interesting article on bunniestudios regarding the issues with some allegedly rebranded MicroSD cards. Geeky and investigative blogging at its best!
So far we have cloned the hard drive, created a new VM, copied the details, and adjusted the XML file to accommodate the changes.
In this article, we will update the GUI portion to take account of the new hard drive image and boot!
In part two, we will look at creating a new VM and copying the details over to the new machine.
Setting up active FTP on IIS on Server ’08 is relatively straight forward. Make sure you install the IIS Scripting Tools under IIS Management Console. Once you have done that, you need to open up a command prompt, go to C:\InetPub\adminscripts and use the adsutil.vbs to set the passive port ranges.
In this case we will use ports 5600 to 5620:
c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs set /MSFTPSVC/PassivePortRange “5600-5620″
Now you just need to port forward ports 21, and 5600 through 5620 from the outside of your firewall to the inside. Don’t forget to set exceptions on the Window Firewall on the server for those ports too!
There was an interesting post yesterday regarding BSoDs from a Windows Update [KB977165 is the suspected update].
The error is reported as a Page Fault in a Non-Paged Area.
This appears to be the best fix so far
***UPDATE: It looks like this may actually be caused by an underlying TDSs virus infection of a system driver such as ATAPI.sys.
Just came across this article – could be interesting!
The following is a useful guide for copying the Outlook data across from a hard drive where the data is intact but the OS won’t boot to a new machine with the same version of Outlook on it and where the user profile is named the same.
To copy the toolbar, VBA, rules, and nickname files, copy the following folder over to the new profile:%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\OutlookTo copy the message store files, copy the following folder over to the new profile:%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
To copy the toolbar, VBA, rules, and nickname files, copy the following folder over to the new profile:%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\OutlookTo copy the message store files, copy the following folder over to the new profile:%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
To copy the registry information [account information etc], mount the users registry hive [ntuser.dat] under HKLM\OldUser, export the following key:HKLM\OldUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\{user id}Open the registry file and do a global find/replace for:“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\OldUser” and replace it with “HKEY_CURRENT_USER”Import the registry file in to the new registry.
I’ve used this on numerous occasions with complete success. I’d be very interested in hearing your results in the comments.
I’ve frequently found myself in need of checking on the status of numerous servers, and the services they provide. There are many tools out there to help you do that but I just wanted something basic that would not load down my server, their server, or their internet connection and yet provide me with timely notifications in case there is an issue.
So what to do? Well, I have a web server at my disposal, loaded with Linux and PHP and so I took it upon myself to write a couple of little PHP scripts to get the job done. A basic set of scripts is included at the end of this post.
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