The Foley House

Get Device Manager to show nonpresent devices as hidden devices

Karl — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:50:00 GMT

Start a command prompt and set the following variable:

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Start Device manager from the command line:

devmgmt.msc

On the view menu, click Show hidden devices.

More info here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315539

Error installing Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6.1.0

Karl — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:25:00 GMT

First I had an error saying Windows Remote Management wasn't installed. I got it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=845289ca-16cc-4c73-8934-dd46b5ed1d33&DisplayLang=en

Second problem was this error:

"The installer has detected that HTTPs Listener is not enabled for Windows Remote Management. Enable HTTPs Listener for Windows Remote Management to use Standards Remote Management capabilities. See "Remote Enablement Requirements" section in the Installation and Security User's Guide for detailed information. Note: Remote Enablement is applicable only for systems that support Server Instrumentation."

This led to this post:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384372(VS.85).aspx

The fix was to run:

winrm quickconfig

This enabled an HTTP listener, but not an HTTPS one. Re-reading the above url, this worked:

winrm quickconfig -transport:https

ActiveSync - Guest only

Karl — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:45:00 GMT

To force an ActiveSync to allow guest only access (therefore with no prompts) carry out the following registry edits:

HKLM \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft\Windows CE Services

Add a new DWORD Value called ‘GuestOnly’ with a value of ‘1’

Blog off the air - Oops!

Karl — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:00 GMT

My blog has been off the air for a while. I moved the blog to a new server and recreated the domain.

Turns out the account used to run the blog needed modify access to C:\Windows\Temp - Looks ok for now!

Transistion to Cloud Servers

Karl — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:05:00 GMT

I'm moving all my locally hosted content to cloud based servers. So far I have moved my email to Google Apps For Your Domain and I have created a new blog (no content yet) to replace this one.

The Gmail move went pretty well as all I had to do was update MX, SPF and some CNAME records. The only non-working part was the start page as Google seem to have dropped support for this. I had actually setup apps before this limitation was implied, and I can activate the start page but it just doesn't work. There are others who mention this and the work-round seems just to use a Google Sites page if you want this. In fact there's quite a complete template for sites, just for this. I don't really need it anyways.

The blog will move slower. I have moved it off to a smaller sevrer for now and I'm trying to find a way to export the posts from CommunityServer to Blogger. I may just have to use the smaller server to setup redirects to the new blog.

Latest hotfix for DPM 2007

Karl — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:25:00 GMT

I think I explained earlier that my DPM 2007 product does not get updated by Microsoft update.

I tried reseting Windows Update components, but that didn't help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058

I've discovered I'm a little bit behind on hot fixes, and that Microsoft have released KB976542 on October 23rd 2009.

This seems to include all the hotfixes posted since DPM 2007 SP1:

Still, looks like DPM 2010 will soon be here.

Wireshark on Snow Leopard

Karl — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:24:00 GMT

Nasty startup problem solved thanks to Nick Klienschmidt.

Run:

cd /Library/StartupItems

sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF

http://kleinsch.com/2009/10/03/wireshark-chmodbpf-errors-on-snow-leopard/

Belkin N1 Expresscard with DLink DIR-615

Karl — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:56:00 GMT

I was supplied with a DLink DIR-615 router as part of my Virgin Media package. Tried connecting my personal laptop using a Belkin N1 Express card (F5D8071), but it just wasn't happy. This same card would connect with a Belkin Vision N1 quite happily (surprise, surprise).

Anyway, I downloaded the Vista drivers and they worked fine. Find them here:

http://en-us-support.belkin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/468

My card was the 3000 version.

Creating a dynamic distribution group with advanced filtering on Exchange 2007

Karl — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:21:00 GMT

In Exchange 2003, it was very easy to build a dynamic distribution group with the GUI. Exchange 2007 is much more limited unless you use Powershell. I needed to create a dynamic distribution group targeting a particular server, as long as the user mailboxes didn't have a forwarding address. The reason for wanting to avoid the mailboxes with forwarding addresses is we still have Quest's Exchange Migration Wizard creating forwarding details for users on the legacy Exchange system.

The process is a two part process:

Create the dynamic distribution group
Set the filter criteria for the distribution group

To create the dynamic user, type the following all on one line in the Exchange Powershell console (don't type in the bold italic comments):

New-DynamicDistributionGroup 'The applett

-Name "Group name" 'What the group should be called

-IncludedRecipients MailboxUsers 'Just include users with mailboxes

-OrganizationalUnit "domain.com/ou1/ou2" 'Where to create the dynamic distribution group

e.g. New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name "Group name" -IncludedRecipients MailboxUsers -OrganizationalUnit "domain.com/ou1/ou2"

To set the filter:

Set-DynamicDistributionGroup 'The applett

"Group Name" 'What the group is called

-Notes "Blah blah blah" 'Description

-RecipientFilter {ServerName -eq 'ServerX' -and ForwardingAddress -eq $Null} 'Mailbox exists on ServerX and the forwarding address is empty

-RecipientContainer "domain.com/ou1/ou2" 'What container the recipients are under - It can just be the domain

e.g. Set-DynamicDistributionGroup "Group Name" -Notes "Blah blah blah" -RecipientFilter {ServerName -eq 'ServerX' -and ForwardingAddress -eq $Null} -RecipientContainer "domain.com/ou1/ou2"

Once set with Powershell, they can be viewed by the GUI, but not changed. Beware that the preview button does not take account of the -RecipientContainer parameter - It will show you all users in the domain that match.

Inspiration from:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123796.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738157.aspx

DanW

Windows 7 on an HP DV9000 (DV9292EU)

Karl — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT

I've been having a bit of an install fest this weekend with Windows 7 Ultimate on my HP DV9292EU, Windows 7 Enterprise on my Work laptop and Android (!) on my trusty ASUS eeePC 701. All went fine except the HP laptop which had three unknown devices in device manager after the install.

One was labeled as a co-processor. I don't know what it was, but downloading the NVidia Nforce 430 drivers from here solved it:
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk

Select Legacy, NForce 4 and then one of the 430 drivers. It downloaded this file which worked for me:
15.49_nforce_winvista_win7_32bit_international_whql.exe

The two other device were labeled Base System Devices and proved to be some sort of Ricoh devices.
Downloading the Windows 7 drivers from the Lenovo site fixed these for me!
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/WIN7-BETA.html#rmcr

It now all looks good!

Google Wave invites

Karl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:19:00 GMT

These are looking really hard to get - Any one have one?
Please send an invite to Karl.Foley@gmail.com.

How-To Prepare A Certificate With Subject Alternative Names Using Exchange Powershell

Karl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT

1. Use powershell from an Exchange 2007 box to generate a certificate request (all on one line and replace italics with your details):

New-ExchangeCertificate
-GenerateRequest:$true
-Path C:\NewCert.req
-DomainName fqdn1.domain.tld,fqdn1,fqdn2.domain.tld,fqdn2
-PrivateKeyExportable:$true
-FriendlyName "fqdn1.domain.tld"
-IncludeAcceptedDomains:$False
-Force:$true
-SubjectName "CN=fqdn1.domain.tld,OU=Department,O=Organisation,L=Location,S=County,C=GB"

2. Request a certificate from your AD certificate server, (http://yourcertserver/certsrv). This needs to be an advanced request, using the request file generated above, and for a web serevr. Download it to your local drive as C:\CertNew.cer.

3. Import the certificate into your Exchange server using:

Import-ExchangeCertificate C:\NewCert.req

4. On the Exchange server, use the MMC certificate snap-in, export the certificate. Export it with the private key to a PFX file. Make sure you target the computer certficate store when loading the MMC. Use a password to protect the exported certificate.

5. On the target server, load the certificate MMC, again targeting the computer store and import the pfx file.

6. Using the IIS console, switch your webserver to the new certificate.

Vista\2008 SP2

Karl — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:47:00 GMT

This has been RTM for a while, and I was expecting it to show up on Windows Update today, but it didn't. I downloaded it from Technet but just noticed it on the Microsoft main site here.

I particularly like the combined Vista\2008 32bit\64bit DVD here.

How to get the latest build of Chrome

Karl — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:34:00 GMT

Hacked off by the fact that IE8 has stopped responding my system, and not wanting to reboot right, I decided to start using Chrome again.

I has been using the beta builds before but forgot how to get them.

You can find out how here:
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

Isinteg fails to run on Exchange 2007 with Error: FULLCHKMGR::EcReadRowCountGlobalFlag failed with error JET_wrnColumnNull

Karl — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:54:00 GMT

I had a corrupted mailbox, so created a temporary store to move the mailbox into. I then wanted to run an isinteg on this store before returning the mailbox back to the original store.

The first part went ok, but when I went to run isinteg I received the following error in the logfile:
Error: FULLCHKMGR::EcReadRowCountGlobalFlag failed with error JET_wrnColumnNull

Searching around prodeuced a few solutions, but none in English! I found the following post:
http://www.spurius.nl/?p=46

My Dutch isn't very good, but I surmised that the command to run was:
isinteg -s servername -fix -test rowcounts

I ran this, and indeed I could then run an isinteg with -test alltests. Thanks to whoever that blogger is!

Feb 2009 Hotfix Package for DPM 2007 (KB963102)

Karl — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:36:00 GMT

For some reason, my DPM server doesn't seem to pick up on updates from Microsoft, so I occasionally scan download.microsoft.com for any updates.

Today, I found a new hotfix download for DPM 2007:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8a551a13-270e-46c0-91ee-4a6d3d8bf034

It patches some issues detailed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;963102

Can anyone tell me how to make DPM 2007 register with Windows update on this server?

Communicator 2007 Automatic Sign-in Failure

Karl — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:23:00 GMT

In my case this was caused by lack of DNS entries.
Just creating a sip CNAME to my OCS 2007 server was enough, but there are others you can create.

I found a tool that helps you troubleshoot DNS issues here.

A\CNAME records:
sip.domain.com
sipinternal.domain.com
sipexternal.domain.com

SRV Records:
_sipinternaltls._tcp.domain,com
_sipinternal._tcp.domain.com
_sip._tls.domain.com

Communicator 2007 Fails to download corporate address book

Karl — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:19:00 GMT

In my case, this was caused by https certificate problems. The certificate had been generated during the install, but had not been applied to the IIS server.
Can also be caused by firewall issues with ports or IIS MIME issues for dabs (application\dabs) or lsabs (application\lsabs).

OCS 2007 Activation Problem

Karl — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:15:00 GMT

Failure to activate OCS 2007 during installation.
This can be based by having a space ( ) or quote (") character in the service account passwords.
Looks like the setup program does not quote the password correctly, so fails when either of these two charaters are used.

DPM 2007 SP1 Real Soon

Karl — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:41:00 GMT

Launched at the start of December 2008 apparently.
I'm not clear as to how the Hyper-V protection will work though - Will we have to pause Hyper-V guests or not during protection?

More details here:
http://blogs.technet.com/jbuff/archive/2008/11/24/what-is-new-for-protecting-sharepoint-with-dpm-2007-sp1-technet-edge-video.aspx

Unable to complete configuration wizard for System Center Essentials 2007

Karl — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:30:00 GMT

The confugration wizard was generating the following error:

Date: 12/10/2008 00:23:47
Application: System Center Essentials
Application Version: 6.0.1251.0
Severity: Error
Message:

: Verification failed with [1] errors:
-------------------------------------------------------
Error 1:
: Failed to verify Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f].
Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f] is a duplicate to Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServere2f7dfce1adc45e0adbcbf63664743af] defined within the same ManagementPack. Please remove any one of the duplicate overrides.
-------------------------------------------------------

Failed to verify Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f].Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f] is a duplicate to Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServere2f7dfce1adc45e0adbcbf63664743af] defined within the same ManagementPack. Please remove any one of the duplicate overrides.
: Failed to verify Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f].
Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f] is a duplicate to Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServere2f7dfce1adc45e0adbcbf63664743af] defined within the same ManagementPack. Please remove any one of the duplicate overrides.
: Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServer6c1cc55796f6477f97fbe53bcdb1154f] is a duplicate to Override [OverrideForRuleMicrosoftSystemCenterEssentialsInternalScheduledDiscoveryForContextMicrosoftSystemCenterRootManagementServere2f7dfce1adc45e0adbcbf63664743af] defined within the same ManagementPack. Please remove any one of the duplicate overrides.

I found this closed bug:
http://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgrFeedback/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=286212
(Didn't help)

Then I found this, which did...
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2253298&SiteID=17

System Center Essential OpsMgr Error 0x80004005

Karl — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:18:00 GMT

After an install of SCE 2007, the OpsMgr service would not start and kept throwing an 0x80004005 error.
Found another blog with a fix:
http://blogcastrepository.com/blogs/brian_tucker/archive/2008/01/16/scom-opsmgr-2007-health-service-error-0x80004005-event-id-7023.aspx

It was a little different in my case, I had to remove LMIRfsClientNP from the registry key:
HKEYLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HwOrder\ProviderOrder

D-Link DCS-6620G - HTTP 400 Bad Request

Karl — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:59:00 GMT

After the install of Silverlight - My D-Link DCS-6620G camera started returning HTTP 400 Bad Request errors.
After a bit of investigation, I found this:
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/7452/77779.aspx

Locating the key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Accepted Documents, I removed a couple of XML document type I figured that I would never use.

Everything now works fine.

Kaspersky Internet Security 7 will not install

Karl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:21:00 GMT

I'd forgotten this one... Something gets left in the registry so that the Kaspersky install keeps giving you this error:
"You must restart your computer before proceeding with the installation."

Download and apply this registry fix from Kaspersky.

More details here:
http://support.kaspersky.com/kolt/?eid=207694096

Network connection keeps stopping in Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Karl — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:41:00 GMT

I've recently had an issue with my main desktop machine losing network connectivity overnight. No other machines are affected, only my desktop one. The problem computer is connected via wired ethernet to a Netgear GS105 Gigabit switch. The lights on the switch stay on, so there appears to be nothing wrong with the physical connection but the system still can contact nothing on the network.

What has worked as a fix, was to go into the network connections, disable and then enable the LAN connection. The computer will then work fine for another 24 hours.

After some searching, I read this:
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/791873.htm

Which then led to this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927168

Now, each time the connection has stopped working, I have had my Windows Mobile 6.0 phone plugged in, synchronising and charging. I wondered if this was the same as Internet Connection Sharing as the phone is given an IP and can access the network via my desktop computer. When I had network problems with my network camera, I do remember switching on RSS (receive side scaling) as part of the changes made to the IP stack.

I've disabled RSS for now using the command:
netsh interface tcp set global rss=disabled

I'll followup with any further lockups or not!