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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Can’t Update Media Player Library on Windows SmartPhone
I have found for a while now that I could not view the Windows Media Player library on my phone, and everytime I viewed the library I got a dialog saying “An unexpected error occured”. But now I have fixed it. It must have been a corrupt copy of the libary database on the SDCard […]
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Exchange 2007 Clustering on Windows 2008
I have just spent an hour or three installing two Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition boxes to create an Exchange 2007 SCC cluster using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to create the environment. But I did not get that far, as Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering shared storage requires SAS (Serial SCSI) or iSCSI and not […]
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ERROR_REPLICA_SYNC_FAILED_THE TARGET PRINCIPAL NAME IS INCORRECT
This rather imposing message is found if you try to force replication between to Active Directory Domain Controllers when one of the controllers machine account password is out of sync with the password as stored on the other domain controller. I have seen this a number of times on Virtual PC or Virtual Server Active […]