There are currently two registry settings required to be added on the Windows 7 client prior to joining a Samba Domain. These are:

    HKLMSystemCCSServicesLanmanWorkstationParameters
        DWORD  DomainCompatibilityMode = 1
        DWORD  DNSNameResolutionRequired = 0

Samba also ships with a registry patchfile that users can apply directly. The patchfile can be found in recent Samba sourcecode: $SOURCE/docs-xml/registry/Win7_Samba3DomainMember.reg or in Samba Bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=4988&action=view

Make sure to either reboot Windows 7 or restart the LanmanWorkstation service after setting these entries.

Do not edit any other registry parameters (NETLOGON) that have been seen in the wild. If you have already modified your Windows 7 registry, please make sure to reset the keys to their default values.

If you have changed the NETLOGON Parameters, make sure and turn them back to '1' as shown below:

   HKLMSystemCCSServicesNetlogonParameters
       DWORD  RequireSignOrSeal = 1
       DWORD  RequireStrongKey = 1

SOGo Users,

This is a follow up on from this thread.
'[SOGo] Why not move from Funambol to Z-Push? Many features will be obtained.', http://www.mail-archive.com/ users@sogo.nu/msg08451.html
even farther from this reply, http://www.mail-archive.com/ users@sogo.nu/msg08828.html, on the same suject.

I am pleased to announce sogosync, It is an unmodified Z-Push from svn upstream (1.5.x branch) with caldav and cardav backend.

So far it is a read-only carddav and caldav and support multiple addressbook and calendar.
I have also made the configuration easier with preconfigure file working against http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca.
'public' addressbook are skip as they are provide by LDAP Z-push backend.
Email (IMAP) and GAL (Global Address List) support are provide by standard Z-push backend.

It has been tested on iOS 5.0.1.

It is Open Source software released under AGPLv3 and host on Github.com.

Please feel free to feedback, contribute to the code, sponsor or donate.

More on https://github.com/xbgmsharp/sogosync

Kind regards,
Francois

Step 2 when using Microsoft-provided VMs for IEx interoperability testing

Ready-made Microsoft VMs for IE interop testing - but they'll shutdown and become completely unusable on August 09, 2011. Convert to QEMU: qemu-img convert -O qcow2 blah.vhd blah.qcow2