Work is in progress.

Today I was asked to assist in troubleshooting an Oracle Client (10g) installation. The installation halted very quickly with a java.lang.NullPointerException:

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I didn’t notice it before but the new RNS 510 firmware (3810/3814/3816/3818) has a new startup logo for the Volkswagen firmwares:

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I am currently creating a PowerShell script that creates a user with all needed Active Directory attributes, Exchange mailbox, (TS) Home- and Profile directories and so on.

In such a script you can easily get failures because of Active Directory replication.

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Function below can be used to check if a given Username exists in Active Directory:

I wrote earlier about the startup logo’s on the Volkswagen RNS 510 navigation.

Today I can finally tell you that I succeeded!
I changed the startup logo to the logo from the MFD2 DVD as you can seen on this picture:

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The Volkswagen RNS 315 Navigation has a builtin Bluetooth carkit which is disabled by default. I am not sure why, I presume this is done because VW also sells carkits that integrate into the MFD.

The builtin carkit can be enabled using VCDS like this:

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I recently had some time to play with VCDS and a friend’s RNS 315 navigation. By default there is no test mode or hidden menu with extra features like on some other Volkswagen systems.

Using VCDS we can however (temporarily) enable the Developer mode.

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I was testing outgoing mail flow in my new Exchange 2010 setup, which should go from the CAS Servers to the Edge server in the DMZ.

After configuring the Edge subscription I noticed that outgoing mails got stuck in the queue with the following error:

“451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: "451 5.7.3 Cannot achieve Exchange Server authentication." Attempted failover to alternate host, but that did not succeed. Either there are no alternate hosts, or delivery failed to all alternate hosts.“

I verified that name resolution back and forth was ok and that I could communicate on port 25, 50389 and 50636.

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Today I was reusing some old (pre vista) code the retrieves the Logon SID that I wrote a few years ago. The Logon SID is a special SID that identifies a logon session that has the form S-1-5-5-X-Y.

You can view your Logon SID with Process Explorer, right click a GUI process, select Properties and goto the Security Tab:

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