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    Thursday
    23Oct

    Outlook Web Access - Change password

    I wanted to allow Outlook Web Access users, on a SBS 2003 server, the ability to change their passwords. You need to create a Virtual Directory in IIS on the SBS server, then install a small OWA admin app to enable this.

    Petri's website had a guide to this which worked great: http://www.petri.co.il/enable_password_changing_through_owa_in_exchange_2003.htm

    The OWA admin tool has lots of other options you can tweak for your OWA users, which would normally mean you have to do a reg tweak.


    Wednesday
    16Jul

    TweakUI + Win2k3 + icons change to 256 colors

    I used TweakUI to see if I could fix some icon corruption, only prob, it didn't and changed all desktop icons to 256 colours.

    I lost the link for this solution...

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]

    "Shell Icon BPP"="32"

    those two registry keys were set to 32. When you reset them to 16, it will look normal. The reason is that when the icon bpp is set to 32, they only look good under a 32 bit color display (24 or 16 looks crappy). When set to 16 bpp, they will look good under 32, 24, or 16.

    Doing this, I was able to get my Win2k3 desktop icons back to 16bit colour depth. Don't you just love playing windows!