Brian Reid – Microsoft 365 Subject Matter Expert

Brian Reid – Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master

  • How to Configure CRM 4 on a Terminal Server When Not All The Users Use Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

    The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Outlook client software, when installed on a terminal server (Microsoft or Citrix) results in the CRM toolbar (which is part of the CRM Outlook Add-in) appearing for all users of the server regardless of whether or not they require the functionality of CRM and irrespective of whether or not they…

  • OWA Login Issues With RWW in SBS and WEBS

    Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is a feature of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (WEBS) and Small Business Server 2008 (SBS). Both of these operating systems provide a web portal to view internal resources such as Outlook Web Access (OWA), SharePoint and Remote Desktop to your own PC. I have noticed on a number of installations…

  • Account Rename and Essential Business Server 2008 Installation Failure

    The error “cannot find the specified active directory object: winnt:///,user” and “program file folder creation or environment variables setting did not finish successfully” appears during the installation of Essential Business Server 2008 on the Security Server if a group policy exists in your current environment that renames the local administrator account name. The GPO setting…

  • Running Schema Upgrade Tool When You Have No DVD Drive on Infrastructure Master

    The Essential Business Server installation steps for the Management Server might require you to insert the Prerequisite Planning Tools DVD into the Infrastructure Master to run schemaupgradetool.exe. What if you do not have a DVD drive on the current infrastructure master? Then copy over the network the SCHEMAUPGRADETOOL.EXE, MMSNETWORKINGNATIVE.DLL and the entire ADPREP folder. Then…

  • SBS and WEBS 2008 Backup Fails to Backup Exchange Server

    The following errors are reported in the Event Log Windows Logs/Application when you run the built-in backup that is part of Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) or Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (WEBS): Event ID 565 – Consistency check for component StorageGroup-GUID\’Microsoft Exchange Server\Microsoft Information Store\SERVER’ failed. Application ‘Exchange’ will not be avaliable in the…

  • Remote Web Workplace not operating in SBS 2008 or EBS 2008

    If when you log into Remote Web Workplace on Small Business Server 2008 or Essential Business Server 2008 as a non-administrator user you get the following error messages: Cannot connect to the Remote Web Workplace site. To continue, contact your network administrator. Event Viewer/Application Log/ASP.NET 2 Warning: Event ID 1309 ArgumentOutOfRangeException “Index was out of…

  • Windows 2008, IIS 7.0, 64 bit Server, Terminal Services Web Application and Access Databases

    This is a long list of pre-requisites, but for your information they do not work together. If you have a web site that uses Access as its data storage and you migrate that site to an x64 Windows machine then access to the Access MDB file ceases with the following error: “‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’ provider is not…

  • Enterprise Certificate Services and Terminal Services Gateway – Certificate Issuing for Internet Usage

    To issue a certificate for the Windows 2008 Terminal Services gateway using your own intalled Enterprise Certificate Authority, out of the box you need to create a certificate request file, request the certificate from the Enterprise CA, install the issued certificate and map the certificate to the TS Gateway. This can help you if you…

  • Enabling Previous Versions on Windows 2008 Server Core

    Enabling Previous Versions for file shares on Windows 2008 when you have the full graphic’s interface is easy to do – but what about if all you have is the command line as you get in Server Core. To turn on Previous Versions (shadow copies) via the command line follow these steps: From the command…

  • Moving WSUS 3.0 Content and Database

    If you run out of space on your Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server then the following will allow you to move the content to another location on the same machine. Create a folder called WSUS on a different partiton from the current WSUS folder location. This folder must not be compressed. Open a command…

  • SSTP (SSL VPN) on SBS 2008 RC0

    Updated 31st March 2008: Please see http://c7solutions.com/blog/2009/03/configuring-sstp-vpn-on-small-business_31.aspx as this new article replaces the below, as the below refers to a pre-release version of SBS 2008. The working instructions for configuring SSTP on SBS 2008 is much more complicated than the steps below. SSL based VPN’s are great. In short it is VPN without firewall or…

  • Hyper-V Not Booting From ISO Images

    I got error 0xc00000e9 when attempting to boot into a new guest Hyper-V image, using an ISO image as my boot CD. Using the real CD in the host worked fine. So I downloaded the ISO again and all was well this time – must have been a dodgy download – now to go play…

  • Hyper-V on the Dell Optiplex

    With the correct BIOS settings enabled on a E8500 processor (see http://processorfinder.intel.com/ for the processors that support EM64T, Virtualisation and Execute Disable which is needed for Hyper-V to work), and with them and the Trusted Execution property set to On in the BIOS I got the following errors with Hyper-V RC1 on Windows 2008 Enterprise…

  • Sage ODBC Error “cannot find all files in data path”

    Saw this error when attempting to connect Excel/Microsoft Query to an installation of Sage when Sage v14 had been installed on Vista with Office 2007 (but these two programs are unrelated to the error). If in Microsoft Query I select the listed data source for Sage then it would generate the above error. The problem…

  • Media Player 11 jumps or skips near end of songs

    Finally fixed this one! On Windows Media Player 11, running on Vista on Dell hardware the sound-card (with a SigmaTel device) would ruin the end of every song, but sync the song to a mobile device or use a different media player (VLC for example) and the songs play the bit near the end fine.…

  • CRM 3.0 Disaster Recovery

    Updated 9 Jan 2009 as I needed to repeat these steps again, and so have clarified them a bit! I am in the process of performing a CRM restore, when I came across this cryptic message: “One or more Microsoft CRM groups do not exist”. I am restoring into a new Active Directory so the…

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Search Not Indexing

    If you get the following error on a WSS 3.0 site: Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (0x80041205) Then check that you are not being blocked from searching due to Kerberos restrictions. The search service indexes the…

  • SMTP Server for Orange Mobiles Running Windows Mobile 6

    For a while now I have been unable to send my personal email from my mobile phone (running WM6 on the Orange network in the UK). I could download email via IMAP from my server (not hosted by Orange), but never send. So after doing a bit of research I discoved that the SMTP server…

  • Blogger Blogs in Outlook – Incorrect Dates

    This has been obvious to me for a while – whenever I viewed this blog in Outlook 2007 via the common RSS feed store, the dates were all incorrect and so new posts appeared at random within the list. I finally found a fix yesterday – the post was based upon ATOM technology and not…

  • Exchange Server 2007 Rollup Update 5

    The latest version of the Exchange 2007 update is Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 – this can be downloaded from here (64 bit and 32 bit versions now available). Microsoft plan to do these releases rather than issue hotfixes as the method of engineering Exchange has changed since the previous versions, and KB937194…

  • Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. The network logon failed. (1790)

    This is an error visible in the web browser when connecting to a HTTPS web site behind an ISA Server. The problem is that the firewall access rule for this web site in ISA Server is forwarding the requests to an internal server on a port that it is not listening on. For example you…