What is one of the most challenging issues for bloggers who want good standpoint from search engine? It’s canonicalization, a process of converting the data with more than one representation into the canonical standard. Bloggers concern very much with this issue this process that will define the duplicate content of blogs or otherwise through the so-called algorithms work to sort the data repetition in order. Yet, this hot issue has been tactically responded through the redirecting the blogs from www to non-www or conversely.

In fact, the URL canonicalization is a long topic of discussion where people in common make a mistake to understand about. URL canonicalization is believed unable to go beyond www and non-www. Yet, the know-how basics are still out of the track. Let’s discuss this topic to get a precise insight on URL canonicalization in relation to an effort of redirecting www to non-www or vice versa.

A problem of 301 Permanent Redirect plugins

We normally find within the plugin directories of WordPress similar utility for redirecting www with 301permanent redirect. Actually, most of these plugins are not helping much to make URL canonicalization effects come away from our blogs, since one version include the functionality of Apache-based redirection, 404 monitoring, and many more. I do not need to mention the names of other remaining plugins due to the fact that they are superfluous. Furthermore, some of these redirecting options could distract the performance of your WordPress blogs.

The case is basically not the simplicity of the redirection tools available in the plugins. Using such plugin to remove the meta data header tags from the given standardized WordPress header doesn’t allow modifying the codes that have been set up. If only it is possible, we can simply upgrade and that will serve what we want from redirecting effort.

Here you a typical WordPres redirection taking the following process.

Web browser → Web server → WordPress(PHP) → MySQL

Since the data is within MySQL database, we need to through these steps and thereby every adds could delay the on-the-way process. The opposite redirection steps will be simply otherwise where the delay occurs in every single step.

When the web server is already optimised, it will neglect the necessity of using PHP to process static files and others. It means that you have already added your CPU and server with unnecessary memory usages. As a result, the effects of redirection are not only delayed-time use, but also the basic principle of performance wisdom itself. In short, we have to stay away from using the WordPress core plugins to redirect www to non-www and conversely. No way!

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T-mobile USA planned to widen the varieties of android devices for home. Home phone and table computer incorporated along with consumer devices.

T-mobile’s Android home phone facilitated with powered data which preceded the 7-inch touch screen tablet. They planned to release both the devices in the beginning of 2010. This information is based on the private documents observed by New York Times.

Obviously no too much of details are available about two devices. The Android home phone can be recharged by directly plugging into docking station beside the separate base station for the purpose of data synchronization.

T-mobile Android tablet features 7-inch touch screen monitor. It is a small laptop device and keyboard is not included.

This tablet gadget can be operated as a remote for other machines in the home which is stated by the article in NYT along with internet functionality.

Currently no details existing about cost and exact release date

May be the Android home phone will released in the year 2010. After that tablet PC will be released soon.

The updated version of iTunes is released by Apple on Monday. This new release facilitates rental of HD movie on PC and/or Mac with synchronization upgrades between media and multi-touch devices.

The proprietors of TV wireless set-top-box of Apple company’s is sole hand has a right to use the HD movie rentals before the release of iTunes 8.1.1 which is 66MB download.

Based on the concise note of release, issues are reported with voiceover and coordinating with ipod and iphone touch. Along with this the new release of iTune fixes number of bugs.

A parallel release of iTunes is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of windows XP and vista.

In the meantime, the report about movie catalog of Apple is released by Arstechnica. This is an ongoing project of Apple. Nearly 300 titles appended to iTunes store in most recent week according to the report of tech site. Most of them are added by this weekend.

Most of the latest additions are known to be library titles which cost $2.99 per rental.

Often you need to test email and if it's working. With these commands you can test email flow at a very granular level to determine what's broken and where.

Scenario:
Your domain: mydomain.com
Domain you wish to send to: theirdomain.com

1. Determine the mail server you're sending to.

* Open a CMD prompt
* Type NSLOOKUP
> set q=mx
> theirdomain.com
Response:
Non-authoritative answer:
theirdomain.com MX preference = 50, mail exchanger = mail.theirdomain.com

2. Connect to their mail server


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WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line) is a potent tool that often doesn't see much use due to the lack of (easily accessible) documentation available. More information can be found on WMIC here: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx. We’ll be using WMIC with domain admin credentials to crawl through a list of nodes (PCs/Laptops) and uninstall an example program without interrupting the user.


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I've been a small business consultant for about 8 years and I've done a hundred of these kinds of migrations and got the process down to where it's almost invisible to the users.

Here's the setup:
Single server that is a DC, DNS, DHCP and WINS server. Also hosts all file shares (user directories and shared folders) and printer shares.
You've purchased a new server and want to move everything over to the new server. Here's how:
1. Build your new server

First thing, build you new server with the latest Windows 2003 software (we'll stay on 2003 as that's the most common right now). We'll call the old server OLDDC and the new one NEWDC.
Give yourself a large C: partition, at least 25gb. The rest of can be partitioned into the D: drive. I don't like to create a lot of partitions because they just cause more overhead for little purpose. ALWAYS keep your OS and data separate though!
As for the server, most places up through 100 users can easily get by with a single RAID controller running RAID5. You'll see plenty of debate over this (RAID6, RAID10, etc) but I've had good luck with this configuration. 4gb of RAM for Windows Standard.

2. Promote the server to be the DC


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Ever wanted to monitor your customers servers using 1 Spiceworks «master» in your own office, without installing Spiceworks at all your clients? Read on, here is how I did it.

Pros and Cons:

— First off, we are going to be using a dedicated machine with Server 2003 installed.

— We will be using a RRAS VPN Dial Up Adapter to connect to our clients. These can be permanent connections and DNS settings can be applied. A normal VPN connection will drop the line when you log-off from the server.

Here is the hard and bad one:
— All your clients should be running on different IP subnets.
e.g. You: 10.0.0.x, Client: 10.0.1.x, Client 2: 10.0.2.x, etc. I know this is going to be hard when you already have a lot of clients, or large client networks, but I could not find another way.

— We will use an RDP session to open and use the Spiceworks console on the dedicated server from your workstation. You could try to setup Terminal Services, but I have not tested this. I just use Remote Desktop for administration.
Because of the limitations of RRAS and SBS you WILL be able to open Spiceworks on your workstation using your webbrowser, but you WILL NOT be able to ping the DNS name or remote control a client. For full functionality you should use the RDP session to the server.

— Last of I tested this and use this on Small Business Server to Small Business Server networks. Now SBS does not support trust domains and stuff, so there will not be another way than use the RDP session.
If anybody has some extra information to make this work, I would be very pleased if you drop me a note.


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No administrator likes to think that one day they may have to restore Active Directory from a backup. However it is important that you plan for such an occasion. Setting up a test server to run through scenarios is a good idea, it is important to make time for this sort of disaster planning. I learnt this lesson the hard way.

Whilst this guide does not profess to be the oracle on AD recovery it does document my experiences of dealing with a loss of critical data. Maybe there is a better way to go about this, but my method worked, and will do just fine for me!
Scenario: One of your major AD groups has been deleted, no accounts are functioning other than those in the built-in group, so just the odd admin has access. You have multiple domain controllers but they have already replicated.

Action: Firstly logon to the server you wish to restore to, you may have to do this locally depending on your account configuration, this will be the password you specified when promoting the server to a DC. I did not know the local admin password so logged on with a built in domain account that was still functioning, to change the dsrm password follow these steps:


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These are three scripts that will make the locking down of USB so much easier.
The issue I had was that I could not track what company information was leaving on USB keys. Yes Windows 7 has some neat stuff with BitLocker but I need it locked down now.
IntelliAdmin has some tools for turning off USB Keys but what about when users need them to perform their job? Ie. Download photos, use HSDPA / Wireless Cards? The solution?
Make the drives read only. This means that the users can bring in their information or use wireless cards and download photos but cannot write back to devices.

There are two VBscripts for these:


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