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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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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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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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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 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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What a day! I've learnt a hard lesson today. Never unbind IPv6 from Server 2008 if its running Exchange 2007. I had some problems adding some Vista laptops to a Server 2008 domain today. I couldn't determine if it was SP1 RC1, UAC being turned off or
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With the latest RC1 refresh, you have to install Server 2008 with the default language settings in order for the vmss service to start properly. Details here: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2585027&SiteID=17
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I've just bought a 2xQuad Core Zeon, Dell Poweredge 1900, with 16GB RAM. This is for some heavy duty Hyper-V testing in Windows Server 2008 but I thought it'd be fun to run it under OpenSuse 10.3 first. The result: Click the above image for a full size
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The are some nice core demos over at Keth Coombs' blog. Catch them here: http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2007/11/04/windows-server-2008-core-screencast-series-watch-all-eight-parts-here.aspx
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