'Windows' Category
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[FIXED] Google Chrome user settings with roaming profiles and environmental variables
November 1, 2011Overview Google Chrome is fast becoming popular in the enterprise and Google has provided some tools to make deployment and management easier for Windows admins: Google Chrome for Business site: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html Google Chrome MSI (for deployment via GPO): http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/business/download.html Google Chrome Group Policy template files: http://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chrome/policy/policy_templates.zip Issue By default, Google Chrome keeps user settings in the following locations: [...]
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[FIXED] Backup Exec 2010: e000848c – Unable to attach to a resource. Make sure that all selected resources exist and are online, and then try again. If the server or resource no longer exists, remove it from the selection list.
October 24, 2011Issue Backup Exec 2010 R3 was failing to perform a single item (GRT) restore to an Exchange 2007 server from either disk or tape (Client is using B2D2T). Both the Backup Exec Media server and Exchange 2007 server were running Windows Server 2008 R2. The error being displayed was: Error : e000848c – Unable to [...]
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Creating a Self-Signed Certificate on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 without IIS
October 13, 2011Overview Often I deploy wireless networks with 802.1X PEAP authentication into Windows Active Directory environments which do not have an existing Enterprise Root Certificate Authority (CA). In environments where there are no further requirements for an Enterprise Root CA, I prefer the simplicity of using self-signed certificates on Windows 2008/2008 R2 based RADIUS servers running [...]
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[FIXED] Citrix Printing issue: Windows cannot print due to a problem with the current printer setup
September 6, 2011Just wanted to make a note of this one! Basically, some users on a XenApp 5/Windows Server 2008 farm couldn’t print from Office 2007 programs and received an error “Windows cannot print due to a problem with the current printer setup” The error is caused due to a bug in Windows Server 2008 which does [...]
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WSUS clients not showing up in the WSUS console.
June 1, 2011I’ve had this problem twice over the past couple of years and each time it took me a little while to figure out… Basically some Windows computers that have been deployed via methods such as WDS or imaged based cloning do not show up in the WSUS console, even though they receive updates without issue. [...]
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[FIXED] XDR-Fixup issue during Active Directory Domain Rename
April 14, 2011Overview I recently performed an Active Directory domain rename for a client with a Windows Server 2003 functional level domain/forest and Exchange 2003 messaging environment. The client had a single label DNS domain name and needed to move to a proper 2 part DNS domain name for software compatibility reasons. Unfortunately, despite significant planning being [...]
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Exchange 2007 to 2010 Migration: Public Folder Issue Fix
September 7, 2010Overview I recently came across the following issue while performing an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration for a company that still heavily utilised mail-enabled public folders. The client’s Exchange environment was quite old and had been previously migrated from Exchange 5.5 to 2003 and hadn’t been properly decomissioned with the original move to 2007, [...]
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ODBC System DSN Data Sources Failing to Display
September 7, 2010Overview Today I ran into an issue at a client where new System DSNs were failing to display in the ODBC Data Source Administrator on a Windows Server 2003 server. Issue After creating a new System DSN, the DSN would display in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI however would not be visible in the ODBC Data [...]
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Unable to generate the e-mail address. Unable to load address module ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\address\GWISE\AMD64\gwxpxgen.dll’ for address type ‘GWISE’. Error 0xc007007e.
August 18, 2010Overview Today I ran into an issue at a client where they were unable to edit their Default E-mail Address Policy in the Exchange 2007 Management Console after an unclean migration from an Exchange 2003 environment. It also appears that the client had been using Novell GroupWise sometime in the past and had migrated to [...]
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NETLOGON Event ID 5775: An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or because a queue was full.
August 17, 2010Overview I recently ran across a problem at a client with a new Windows Server 2008 domain controller where network services including DNS would become unavailable after roughly 30 days of uptime, causing many other services to fail. Rebooting the server would fix the problem. This problem occurred over a period of months, towards the [...]