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Windows Vista Local Area Network Connection “Authentication Failed”
If you’re getting a error on your LAN connection it’s possible that your network connection is attempting 802.11 authentication on your wired network. Unfortunately, it seems that Vista/Server 2008...
View ArticleWindows update or installer fails to install with error “You do not have...
I was just installing PowerShell on one of my Windows Server 2003 servers, when I encountered the error "You do not have permission to update Windows Server 2003. Please contact your system...
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How to force the removal of Folder Redirection from specific user accounts
We have a folder redirection policy in place for all of our users in combination with a roaming profile policy - this policy is applied to the OU that contains our users. Unfortunately this policy was...
View ArticleInternet Explorer or Services.msc problems after McAfee Uninstall
I'm in the middle of rolling out Sophos as a replacement to the incumbent McAfee at work. One interesting thing that I found as I rolled out to some test users was that they were unable to log on to...
View ArticleUsing AC97 audio with Windows 7
Like thousands of other IT pros out there, I'm testing Windows 7 out on my laptop - since I don't want to mess around with my main PC, it's running on some older kit. The problem with that is that...
View ArticleDCDIAG /TEST:DNS fails with errors regarding root hint servers
I recently resolved an ongoing DNS issue where the Active Directory Integrated DNS was loaded in both the Domain and the DomainDNSZones partition of AD - this is a separate issue and should be...
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Upgrading Server 2008 RTM-SP2 to Server 2008 R2
If you read the Microsoft blurb for R2, the first thing you notice is that Server 2008 R2 is 64-bit only(!). It seems Microsoft are forcibly removing 32-bit server hardware from the data centre. I’ve...
View Article70-649: TS: Upgrading Your MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server...
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve passed the 70-649, which gives me the following MCTS certifications: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Windows Server 2008 Applications...
View ArticleMCITP: Server Administrator and MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
I’m pleased to say that yesterday I took and passed two Microsoft Certified IT Professional exams, the Server Administrator (70-646) and the Enterprise Administrator (70-647). Hopefully I can take a...
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Configuring Server 2008 R2 Core Series: Network Settings
So, you’ve installed a new server with Server 2008 R2 Core – what next? Logging on, you’re presented with a shiny command prompt, you can run notepad or regedit…but aside from that, where do you go...
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Configuring Server 2008 R2 Core Series: Management Tasks
So, you’ve installed a new server with Server 2008 R2 Core – what next? Logging on, you’re presented with a shiny command prompt, you can run notepad or regedit…but aside from that, where do you go...
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Configuring Server 2008 R2 Core Series: Installing and Managing IIS
So, you’ve installed a new server with Server 2008 R2 Core – what next? Logging on, you’re presented with a shiny command prompt, you can run notepad or regedit…but aside from that, where do you go...
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Event IDs 1030 and 1058 on Server 2003 Domain Controller
I logged onto a production domain controller this morning and checked the event logs to be confronted with this: Event ID 1030 and 1058 every 5 minutes, looking into the detail for these events I can...
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Server 2008 – Reporting Services Error The permissions granted to user...
If you install Reporting Services on Windows Server 2008 (RTM or R2) and attempt to verify the installation by opening the http://SERVER/ReportServer site, you may well see the following message:...
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Unable to access admin shares (c$, d$, ADMIN$, IPC$) on Windows Server 2008...
If you have a Windows Server 2008 box in a workgroup that you require access to one of the admin shares, it can be a little more complicated than with Server 2003. In my case, we had a SQL server on...
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Testing throughput between two Windows Servers with NT Testing TCP Tool
The NT Testing TCP Tool is a handy little tool for testing the throughput between two servers – and it’s free! It’s available to download here:...
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PowerShell: Recursively taking ownership of files and folders and adding...
This is every file server admin's nightmare: hundreds of shares, thousands of folders, hundreds of thousands of files - and custom or not inherited rights on many of them. Terabytes of data that need...
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