The hate that is SYSPRO and Windows 8.1

Quick answer? Just make sure you are running SYSPRO-v6.1-SP1.  The Details Customers are moving to Windows 8.1, so does SYSPRO 6.1 run  on Window 8.1? Initial GoogleFu says no. More disheartening news SYSPRO 7.0 Sneak Peak does not list Windows 8! Yet I see SYSPRO 7 (due for release in 2013 ???) has been designed with … improvements for Windows 8. And […]

How to force Directory Synchronization for Office 365

Have several customers that moved to Office 365. I have them setup with their premise Active Directory server syncing to Office 365. I needed a way to force the synchronization. Google found this url for me but the directory path wasn’t right for my install. On Windows Server 2008 R2 Azure is installed at “C:\Program Files\Windows Azure Active Directory Sync” […]

Google Compute Engine – creating a DNS server

In under 10 minutes, I built a very small, authoritative DNS server. It is not large as it handles only about 80 domains and does not offer recursive services. This is the smallest instance available from Google: 1 vCPU core 600 MiB RAM 10 GiB persistent storage (boot disk) I estimate my price per month to run this dedicated DNS server at […]

CrashPlanPRO_2010-03-08_Linux.tgz vs Linux-3.2.0

You are running the older release of Crashplan (CrashPlanPRO 2010-03-08) and you want to run the crashplan client headless on a newer distribution of Linux. The problem arises when the Linux kernel is 3.2.x or higher. The crashplan client on the linux box gives you this error: Exception in thread “W736065360_ScanWrkr” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.backup42.jna.inotify.InotifyManager at com.backup42.jna.inotify.JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.(JNAInotifyFileWatcherDriver.java:22) at […]

SYSPRO6 SRSPRTWN.int Error when printing

Not sure what happened to the SYSPRO Support Zone but this is a very common error I run into when installing SYSPRO and I’m going to share it with all the other (unfortunate) geeks who have to administrate a SYSPRO installation. Client attempts to print and the dreaded SRSPRTWN.int error surfaces. Here’s the fix: Basically, replace the file in: C:\Program […]