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After all the hassle of getting Exchange 2007 setup yesterday, I found that I had no way to backup my Exchange 2007 server running on Server 2008. For whatever reason, Microsoft do not supply NTBackup and there is no in-built way of backing up Exchange...
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The feature pack that is supposed to fix quite a few issues was released on the 1st July. I seemed to have missed it even though my DPM server is subscribed to Windows Update. Found out about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2008/07/01/dpm-2007-rollup-update-now-available.aspx...
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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...
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This ( KB949870 ), was applied by Windows Update last night, and I woke up to no incoming email. On investigation, I found that there was no smtp (25) port open, and that the Microsoft Exchange Transport hadn't started after the reboot. I attempted to...
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I recently bought a D-Link DCS-6620G IP camera to replace a failed Panasonic one. I found the performance to be terrible. After running a network capture I discovered the following: My Vista desktop would send two TCP SYN requests with ECN and CWR flags...
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You must remember to add the CGI service role to IIS 7.0: http://www.hostingforum.ca/838516-virtual-server-2005-sp1-vista-x64-vswebapp-exe-being-downloaded-instead-executed.html...
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If you have multiple storage groups with the same data retention policies, you can now colocate the data on the same tapes as long as you have installed the DPM 2007 feature pack . Most useful if you have a single drive rather than a library. It's not...
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Just wanted to share a couple of excellent Media Center addons I have found recently. The first, called WebGuide4, allows you to access your Media Center PC through a web interface, including mobile: http://www.asciiexpress.com/wiki/ The second allows...
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I'm upgrading my Exchange 2003 organisation to Exchange 2007 this weekend, as a reinforced learning experience for when I begin to deploy Exchange 2007 for a major customer. I had a couple of problems: A setup error occured: "[ERROR] Access to the path...
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My Media Center PC randomly decided to stop working. After a lot of searching and trying I finally found this: http://mymce.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/a-component-registration-failurea-critical-process-failurea-tuner-not-found-error/ The steps were: Close...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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: -------------------------------------------------------...
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I used the command: "w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"uk.pool.ntp.org europe.pool.ntp.org" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update" More details here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f3d6b66c-5fdc-4a77-a901-5efbcb4d4bb71033.mspx?mfr=tru...
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We are now running on Server 2008. Let me know of any issues please!...
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I've found this quite useful in debugging slow logins or incorrect application of group policy. Create the following DWORD value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\UserEnvDebugLevel Set: 0x00030002 - Masses of debug...
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Create a text file called Show Desktop.scf containing: [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop More details here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355/en-us...
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I recently modifed my DPM 2007 installation to backup my local users folder on Windows Vista Ultimate x64. This would not work and kept producing the following event logs when I attemted to manually sync the share: Log Name: Application Source: Application...
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I've been having an issue for some time where certain users and groups were having thier AD inheritance flag cleared and an arbitary set of permissions made. It turns out that this is by design. Because the users belonged to a group, which belonged to...
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When changing the PG (Protection Group) that my server belongs to, I normally get this error message: DPM cannot protect \\CHEF2.thefoleyhouse.co.uk\Optical Drive\. The recycle bin, the System Volume Information folder, non-NTFS volumes, DFS links, CDs,...
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Having fixed my SQL 2005 issues with DPM 2007, I found my main production SQL database was missing from the list of resources available to be protected. When attempting a normal SQL backup, I got an error message telling me that the Full Text Index was...
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I had the following scenario: DPM 2007 Running on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 (x86) SQL 2005 Standard (x86) running on Windows Server 2008 (x64) DPM would not protect the SQL databases, and kept giving errors that the protection was "inconsistant". There...
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After rebooting my Exchange server because of DNS issue, the DPM protection stopped. Further investigation found this in the event log: The DPMRA service terminated with service-specific error 10048 (0x2740). Google found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947682...
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I think I've found the cause, with not a littlew help, of all my multiple taskeng processes that have been plaguing my x64 SP1 Vitsa box: Open Task Scheduler from Administrative Tools Delete any User_Feed tasks Type 'msfeedssync enable' at the command...
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