Filed under: Exchange, Microsoft, Windows | Tags: 2003, 9548, eventid, exchange, Microsoft, MSExchangeIS, nomas
Recently, event ID 9548 has been flooding my Exchange Server application log, resulting in performance degradation.
As described by the screenshot above, it is caused when an account does not have a master account SID assigned.It is usually triggered when you have a disabled user account with exchange attributes in your Active Directory. This is what happened to me. One option you can do is to delete the corresponding user from the AD, and purge everything related to the said user.
In my case, due to our company policy, deleting an account from the AD requires me to behead a black goat, put the corpse on top of a stone tablet, facing sunrise….. Kidding 
Let’s just say it’s not easily done 
So I need to keep the disabled user account, and still be able to prevent this from happening.
Based on this, I need to set the Master Account SID for each of the disabled account in my AD. Unfortunately, there were tons of them. Luckily Microsoft provides us with nomas, a tool to perform such task in bulk. As written on the link, to get nomas, you need to contact Microsoft Product Support Service… or you can download it here
Nomas is simple and very straight forward to use. Just unzip, and then doubleclick the nomas.exe file to start.
Pick check on Mode Selection, and check the “Disabled users” on User selection to start checking for disabled user without assigned Master account SID. The result will be stored on the log file. Change mode selection to “Fix” to start adding Master account SID on disabled users.
After running the tool, I’m happy to report that I no longer receive the event ID 9548 on my Exchange box
Filed under: *Nix, gaming, life on the wired, Ubuntu, Windows | Tags: 2dboy, game, linux, Ubuntu, world of goo
Commemorating one year of World of Goo, 2D Boy, the developer of the DRM free game is holding a “pick your price” promo for the said game. Instead of paying the usual USD20, you get to choose how much money you’re going to spend for a copy of The World of Goo. Go here to get to the promo page.
Filed under: *Nix, Microsoft, Ubuntu, Windows | Tags: Microsoft, vmware, windows 7
So after letting it sit for a whole week on my hdd, I finally had the time to boot up the Windows 7 Beta dvd images on my VMWare server installation.
blue pill? or red pill?
the install went very smooth. Soon I was greeted with a login screen eerily similar to Vista. But the label on the bottom ensure me that I did in fact have installed Windows 7, Ultimate Version. Thank God for that
the Ultimate Windows 7, Ultimate Edition
The look and feel, again is eerily similar to Vista, save for the odd looking blocky taskbar. Also I’ve noticed that they changed the way the log off/shutdown/hibernate thingy works. instead of defaulting on an icon that dubiously represent hibernate, it is now set to default on shutdown, represented by a button that clearly states “shutdown”. Good for them!
Windows Vista SP2... I mean 7!
The default install leave about 900MBish out of 8GB virtual drive that I have prepared. That’s of OS alone. Compare that to my 5GB Intrepid install that includes an office suit, 3 kind of browsers, google earth, a database server, http server, vmware, and so on and so forth…
