Monthly Archives: July 2008

SysAdmin Day 2008

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Happy System Administrator Day!  Whoo!

From Wikipedia:

System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay or SAAD, was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator in Chicago. Kekatos was inspired to create the special day by a Hewlett-Packard magazine advertisement in which a system administrator is presented with flowers and fruit-baskets by grateful co-workers as thanks for installing new printers. The holiday exists to show appreciation for the work of sysadmins and other IT workers. It is celebrated on the last Friday in July. The first System Administrator Appreciation Day was celebrated on July 28, 2000.

And the official SysAdmin Day song: http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/sysadmin/~content.

Reinitialize Offline File Cache in Vista

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They made it easy to reinitialize your offline file cache in XP – not so much in Vista. Here’s how:

1. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then click regedit in the Programs list. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password or click Continue.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parameters

Note: If the Parameters subkey does not exist, create it. To do this, follow
these steps:

a. Click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc
b. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Key.
c. Type Parameters, and then press ENTER.

3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type FormatDatabase, and then press ENTER.
5. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6. Type 1 in the Value data box, and then click OK.
7. Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.