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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

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March 2005 - Posts

One of those D'OH! moments
Sometime last night (or more accurately in the early hours of the morning) my Server 2003 box decided it wasn't going to have a default gateway anymore. The problem first made itself known when we started getting "Mail Delayed" messages back from Exchange. Read More...
Exchange 2003 OWA displays FTP style directory
If this happens to you the simplest answer is to recreate the web access directories. You can't just delete them and restart the SA service as you did in Exchange 2000! 1. Backup the IIS metabase 2. Delete the Exchange virtual directories in IIS Manager Read More...
JRNL_WRAP_ERROR
Windows 2000 domain with a single domain controller was suffering the following error message in NTFRS Log in event viewer. After advice from Microsoft we set the following registry entry: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process Read More...
Thursday Evening
Left at 19:00 to arrive at Ipswich at 20:11 but arrived at 20:17. Not bad, only 6 minutes late. We've gone ober the 3 hour barrier - Now we have it at 3:03 for the week so far but there is still Friday to go. Read More...
Thursday Morning
Caught the 06:53 to arrive at 08:09. Not bad as we arrived at 08:10 - Just a minute late. So that's now 2:57 late for the week. Read More...
Wednesday evenings...
Caught the 19:00 (had some work to catch up with) expecting to get into Ipswich at 20:11 but we eventually rolled in at 20:42. Some 33 minutes late. That brings the total lateness up to 2:56 for the week so far. Read More...
Wednesdays....
I planned to catch the 6:23 again this morning as I needed to do some work on the way in but due to my bloody printer deciding it wasn't going to squirt ink out of the inkjets I ended up on the 06:38 again. Due to a "delayed preceding freight train" we Read More...
Tuesdays
After the problems with travel yesterday I decided to catch the 06:23 (couldn't face the 05:53) only to find it was canceled! Had to catch the 06:38 which arrived a minute early at 07:56. Still I calculate I had to waste 14 minutes because of the cancelation. Read More...
Converted to CS v1.0
CSVerter (Build 50301) finally worked for me. I think it was a combination of the new build and me using SQL authentication rather than Windows integrated that did it. This time the DTS packages were created and the blog content migrated. Cheers Robert Read More...