Jan
14
…still can’t be done. MagicISO seems to work pretty well though. As much as I hate installing stuff like that on a server, there seems to be no way around it without actually burning the image to media. It is completely unacceptable that Microsoft continues to leave this feature out of it’s operating systems. Mac …
Jan
13
I was working on a strange problem with Quicken 2011/Windows 7 Professional 64bit/HP Laserjet 4050T. The only driver available is the HP Universal PCL5/PCL6 driver. Everything works great with printing, except when printing from Quicken. Quicken would crash referencing splwow64.exe as the culprit. This is the Thinking Spooler APIS from 32 to 64 Process. As …
Dec
11
Adding a server running Windows 2008 to a domain that is running Windows 2000/2003 servers is no big deal until you try to promote the 2008 (or 2008R2) server to a domain controller. Active Directory must be updated to accommodate changes to the schema in 2008 and 2008R2. The first thing that I would do …
Aug
20
Symptoms: On a computer running Outlook 2000/XP/2003 and connected to an Exchange server, the user gets error 0×8004010f “The operation failed. An object could not be found.” when performing a send/receive. Problem: Outlook cannot download the Offline Address Book from the Exchange server due to corruption or a database error. Solution: Rebuild the Offline Address …
Aug
20
Symptoms: A user suddenly stops receiving mail and the POP3 Connector drops an eventID: 203 with an error code of 0x800ccc67. Problem: The POP3 connector will not download messages that have a malformed header & it leaves them on the POP server. Once 5 emails with bad headers accumulate on the server, it stops trying …
Aug
18
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a free component for Windows Server that allows you to create your own mirror for Windows Update and control every aspect of how updates are distributed on your network. (Download it here.) Prerequisites: Windows Server 2003 or later (or SBS) IIS 6.0 or later .NET Framework 2.0 or later …
Jul
16
A quick informal story: One of my clients has a bunch of employees that are in and out of the office on different days with their laptops. A couple of them always seem to get a little bit o’ spyware. Well, over the past week or so their “server went down” several times randomly and …
Mar
17
Here is a list of some useful environment variables. %USERPROFILE% %WINDIR% or %SYSTEMROOT% (basically interchangable) %PROGRAMFILES% %APPDATA% %TEMP% %USERNAME% %USERDOMAIN% %COMPUTERNAME% %DATE% %TIME% Example: Let’s say Active Directory is getting full of unused user and computer accounts and you want to do an inventory to see who is using what. Add something this to the …
Mar
17
Problem: You have a computer with several user accounts and several profiles, but they don’t all match up. You need a quick way to determine where the currently logged on user’s profile lives. Solution: Open a command prompt and type the following: echo %userprofile% The command will return a single line that is the current …
Mar
16
Problem: A computer (or several computers) on your domain need to be renamed quickly and reliably without making a mess of Active Directory. Solution: Use the NETDOM utility that comes with the Windows Server Support Tools (SupportTools.msi on the Windows Server media). If it is not already installed, you will want to install the SupportTools.msi …
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