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Windows Server: How to remove Security Updates and WSUS cache?
This morning my Cacti appliance warned me that a windows system volume was getting above 90% of used disk space. A while ago I configured this to get notified with an email. When partitioning this Windows server I didn’t plan the disk configuration. My current problem is that server has 4GB of RAM and paging file is sitting on C:\. I was not able to move the paging file and... -
Active Directory: on a virtual domain controller clocks are skewed
When I open the “Active Directly Sites and Services” console, I got the following error message. My Windows Hyper-V server is sitting in a workgroup. The server it is not syncing to a external NTP time server. One of my domain controllers is running on this host where I had authentication issues. The best solution for this problem is to disable the time synchronization between server and virtual machine. Right... -
ESX: esxcfg-vswitch and special vlan switch
If you need to create 5 or more of Virtual Port groups on a vSwtich and you don’t want to use the VI client than logon on the service console and run the commands below. For creating a new Virtual Port Group use: esxcfg-vswitch -A NAME-TO-GIVE vSwitch0 Assigning a special VLAN to this a Virtual Port Group: esxcfg-vswitch -v VLANID -p PORTGROUP vSwitch0 With these two simple commands I was... -
File Server: windows share migration
You have a Windows File Server and you want to migrate the windows shares. What options do you have to complete this job? A) recreate them or B) migrate them from ServerA to ServerB. Sometimes option A is the only one you have but in most cases you want to keep those Windows Shares available as they were before and using some kind of script would be nice. Microsoft published... -
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Screencast
Before you evaluate and install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Server 2003 server please make sure the following requirements are available: Windows Server 2003 SP2 Microsoft .Net framework 3.5 Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable If you are ok with those than go and install the SQL server 2008. My installation took me 15 minutes and the performance was awesome from a Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtual machine. Check out... -
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form cache error
For weeks my local Infopath 2007 installation failed to open forms located on SPS server. See warning below. InfoPath cannot open the following file: http://sharepoint/ChangeMgmt/Forms/abc.xml InfoPath cannot open the form. To fix the problem, contact your system administrator. Form template: http://sharepoint/ChangeMgmt/Forms/solution.xsn. There is an error in the form’s cache. To correct the error, open the form again. This was my solution is solving the problem. Before you start clean the... -
SAP GUI 7.10 Business Explorer Analyzer toolbar
If you are deploying SAP GUI 7.10 with Business Explorer component the Analyzer toolbar may not work with Microsoft Excel 2003. After you start the Analyzer; Excel application is started and toolbar displayed as below in German. I installed the latest release of SAP Gui 7.10, BW 3.5 and BI 7.0 with bw350gui710_3-10004473.exe and bi710sp05_500-10004472.exe patch on a Windows XP SP2 client and Office 2003 SP2. To fix this problem... -
VMWare Premium Support and Linux Live-CD
Last two days I worked with a VMWare Premium Support engineer troubleshooting my VMWare ESX problem for booting the system. I will post another post with exact error messages, but we were not able to get into the service console nor did the other two boot options work. At some point he asked me did I have a Linux Live-CD? I was think ooh Yeah going back to old school... -
Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 VMWare Tools installing issue
Today I hit my first problem when creating a new JeOS virtual appliance based on Ubuntu. After I mount and extract the VMWare tools; I tried to run the ./vmware-install.pl script and got the warning below. /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-config.pl The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again. vmnet vmhgfs vmblock vmmon Execution aborted.... -
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Setup Errors ASP.NET 2.0
During the installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 I encountered the following error message. Setup Errors: Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions. If it is not available in the list, re-install ASP.NET v2.0. ASP.NET 2.0 already installed as required before I started the installation....
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