Wednesday, June 29, 2011

HOW TO - Choose Google Calendars to Sync

Q: How can I select more than just the default calendar to sync to my iPhone/iPad/iOS device?
A: Assuming you already have the iPhone set up to sync your mail using the ActiveSync service, you only need to do three things.

From your Device:
  1. Visit http://m.google.com/sync - Log into that account and check the box next to each calendar.
  2. Open Settings / Mail / Google Account & turn on Calendars
  3. Open Calendar / Click Calendars (top left) / Check the Calendars you want to show up.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Allow WMI through the Windows Firewall

If a connect attempt using wbemtest.exe fails - follow these steps to allow the requests through the firewall.

Windows XP / Server 2003 (Pick one of three various options, first one is the base command)
  c:\> netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable
  c:\> netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable subnet
  c:\> netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable custom 192.168.1.1,LocalSubnet

Windows7 / Server 2008
  c:\> netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="windows management instrumentation (wmi)" new enable=yes

Updated 8 rule(s).
Ok.

  c:\> netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote administration" new enable=yes
Updated 6 rule(s).
Ok.

How to test WMI communication

  1. Run wbemtest.exe
  2. Connect to \\servername\root\cimv2
  3. If you receive "WMI Response - The RPC server is unavailable" skip to FW changes
  4. Click Query to perform some test queries
 Select * from win32_Processor
    OUTPUT: Win32_Processor.DeviceID="CPU0"

select * from win32_product
    OUTPUT: List of installed software

select * from Win32_ComputerSystem
    OUTPUT: Win32_ComputerSystem.Name="COMPUTERNAME"