Wyatt Barnett's questions

We are generally running php 5.4.x with APC enabled on CENTOS for our production sites. We have a new app that is segfaulting and the development team thinks it is because we've got APC. The app is complicated and really needs an opcode cache.

We have a number of existing apps happily using APC for their opcode and other caching needs that we don't really want to QA so what we'd love to do is just install the OpCache extension along side the APC extension and then let apps enable or disable as they will. I cannot, however, find any indication this will or won't work so before we get to messing with chef to make this happen I'd love to get some insight on that.

We are building an onsite network here and we are using PFSense 2.0 as our firewall. We have no trouble connecting to various services and other VPNs but for some reason we cannot connect using cisco's IPSec VPN client -- either the cisco branded one or the native one on linux or OSX. The handshake portion of the connection times out and users are never even prompted to authenticate.

We have confirmed that there is not an upstream routing issue -- when connected directly through the wan or even through a different NAT gateway things work as expected so we are fairly certain it is a setting on the PFSense boxes.

I've tried various internet searches to come up with an angle but most focus on making a point to point VPN with PFSense rather than client connection issues. Is this something anyone has seen and more important solved?

I'm attempting to setup a FTPS server on Windows Server 2008. The inner workings have been successful -- I can connect locally or on the VPN. But I can't seem to craft the firewall rules to make it work properly. I have the server configured to confine data channels to ports 41230-41240 insofar as I can tell and the networking team has configured the same ports to be open. But it appears my clients are all still trying to connect via ports in the 50000-52000 range. I have tried all possible IPs to "route" through according to the standard technet article -- the server's own and both firewalls.

I can't see a rhyme or reason to this, has anyone successfully got a Windows Server 2008 running through the firewall in the following network configuration:

• Server itself has no firewall running
• No NAT -- server has it's public address assigned directly, etc.
• Redundant Cisco ASA firewalls.
• We are really running FTPES -- that is, FTP with explicit security -- with control on 21 and hoping to put data on 41230-41240.

Please advise if you need more information.

We have a particular user who really likes to send around his V-Card from his blackberry contacts. To do so, he adds himself as a contact in Outlook and then emails the contact card as required. Somehow BES is grabbing his active directory record and overwriting the contact information with said AD record. Is there some way to prevent this?

In times immemorial, back in the day when men were men and blackberries still took AA batteries, we rolled them out to our users for our 100 person operation. At that time, there was no such thing as address list lookups, so we were forced to hack a bit. The ingenious hack we came up with was to mirror the GAL as a public folder and then synch up blackberries to that. While there have been a few downsides here and there, they have been mere annoyances. And our users, having grown fat and prosperous in the intervening years, have been used to seeing every single employee and department here listed on their hand-held automatically.

Alas, it appears that Outlook 2010 breaks this functionality as Blackberry desktop manager is completely incompatible with it. Moreover, this presents us with an opportunity to change things for the better given that public folders are going away next time we upgrade exchange.

So, we are in search of a tool or technique that will allow us to mimic current functionality--that is to:

1. Push an essentially arbitrary list of ~100 contacts to blackberry address books
2. Said list shall be centrally updated

Without requiring desktop manager or exchange public folders.

Any suggestions, crowd?

We use a SharePoint wiki* at the office to serve as a knowledgebase for our IT operations. Recently we went through a disaster recovery exercise where we realized we had a key hole in our plans: how do you restore the services if your instruction manual is down because some services are offline?

Anyhow, we did realize that the wiki angle was definitely something we wanted to keep, but rather that we should explore a way to create offline backups of the wiki which could be easily read using common software we should be able to setup without any knowledge from the wiki.

So, does anyone know of a good utility that can take a SharePoint wiki and dump it to PDF/Word/RTF/[INSERT HUMAN FRIENDLY FORMAT] easily from the command line?

*-Yes, there are better solutions out there. But this was easy and used existing infrastructure and generally does what we need it to do.

We are in the process of rolling out an extranet for some of our partners using WSS 3.0 as the platform. We already use it internally for a variety of things, and we are using the following powershell script to backup the server:

param(
    $url="http://localhost",
    $backupFolder="c:\"
)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

$site= new-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url)
$names=$site.WebApplication.Sites.Names
foreach ($name in $names)
{
    $n2 = ""
    if ($name.Length -eq 0) 
        { $n2="ROOT" }
    else
        { $n2 = $name }
    $tmp=$n2.Replace("/", "_") + ".sbk"
    $saveas = ""
    if ($backupFolder.Length -eq 0) 
        { $saveas = $tmp }
    else
        { $saveas = join-path -path $backupFolder -childPath $tmp }
        $site.WebApplication.Sites.Backup($name, $saveas, "true")
        write-host "$n2 backed up to $saveas."
}

This script works perfectly on the current installation running as our domain backup user.

On the new box, it fails when ran as the backup user--claiming "The web application located at http://extranet/" could not be found. That url does, in fact, work so I'm fairly certain it isn't anything that dumb and rather is some permissions issue. Especially because, when executed from my security context, the script works perfectly.

I have tried making the backup user a farm owner, as well as added him to the various site collection admin groups on the extranet. The one major difference between the extranet and the intranet server is that the extranet has an alternative access mapping (for https://xnet.example.com) and also uses forms authentication for that mapping. Anyhow, what permissions (or other voodoo) do I need to setup to get this script to work properly?