'Windows' Category
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GPO Folder Redirection & Lockdown Policy issue: Public/All User Desktop Items
June 3, 2010Note: The article below applies to all Windows operating systems in an Active Directory environment, I will be applying it to a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server. Overview When setting up a Windows Terminal Server farm I try to lock things down as much as possible to prevent users tinkering with things they shouldn’t. I [...]
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[FIXED] Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Error AcroRd32.exe/Acrobat.exe
June 3, 2010Overview I’ve tried to deploy Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard/Professional in a couple of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services environments now and have always come across the following issue when using roaming profiles/redirected AppData folders. Last time I suffered this issue back in early 2009, I was unable to find a fix, [...]
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Event ID 1015: Failed to connect to server. Error: 0×80080005
May 13, 2010I recently had this error at a client on a Windows XP SP2 computer. It was failing to install Windows Updates. Event Type: Warning Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 1015 Date: 5/05/2010 Time: 3:23:26 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: DELL0820 Description: Failed to connect to server. Error: 0×80080005 For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. I was [...]
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Make computers trust a Cisco IronPort Transparent HTTPS Proxy in an Active Directory environment
May 12, 2010Using the Cisco IronPort Transparent HTTPS Proxy feature in an Active Directory environment with Windows clients is relatively simple. The process involves importing the self-generated certificate from the IronPort into the Trusted Certificate Root Certificate authorities store of your domain computers via Group Policy. Firstly, log into the IronPort web management interface. Go to Security [...]
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Event ID 1202: Security policies propagated with warning. 0x4b8 : An extended error has occurred.
April 18, 2010Last week I came across the following warning on a domain controller running Windows Server 2003 R2. Other domain controllers in the domain did not display the warning. In this post I will explain what the warning means and provide step by step instructions to fix the issue. Event Type: Warning Event Source: SceCli Event [...]
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Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 + Windows Server 2008 R2: V-79-57344-65225 – A failure occurred accessing the Writer metadata.
April 1, 2010Out of the box, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 does not backup Windows Server 2008 R2. By following the instructions below, you will be able to install a Backup Exec 12.5 Remote Agent on an R2 server and backup successfully however you cannot install the Media Server component on Windows Server 2008 R2. Firstly, these are [...]
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Converting a PFX certificate to PEM format on Windows
March 22, 2010Although Cisco devices allow you to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to obtain a new certificate from a Certificate Authority, many administrators will want to use the existing 3rd party certificates they already have installed on their Windows servers for purposes such as Cisco’s AnyConnect SSL VPN to prevent clients getting certificate warnings when [...]
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SBS 2008 Migration, Event ID: 2424 & 2436 – Windows SharePoint Services 3
March 19, 2010I’ve come across this issue a few times before so thought it wise to make a note here. When I do an SBS 2003 to 2008 migration I always seem to come across the following SharePoint warning/error in the application event log every 5 minutes after running through the Internet Address Management Wizard. The purpose [...]