Category Archives: Microsoft
Running an OEM operating system as a virtual machine – “This system is not supported platform”
I recently had to install Windows Small Business Server 2011 for a small client of ours. As with almost every install at the moment, the decision was made to do the install as a VM on ESX 5 as although … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, VMWare, vSphere, Windows Server
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Creating outlook rules based on domain names
I recently had a request from a client running Office 2007 to create a rule that would take every incoming email from ”everyone@domain.com” and move them to a seperate folder (the deleted items folder as it goes, they were receiving excessive … Continue reading
WSUS 3.0 – “The server is failing to download some updates”
Having had a WSUS server running successfully in my home network for a few days, today I checked event viewer to see a large number of critical Event ID 10032 logs – description: The server is failing to download some … Continue reading
The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
It seems a few scenarios can cause “INTERNAL Error – The disk group contains no valid configuration copies” to appear when attempting to import a disk using windows disk management. In my case it was after un-installing Veritas Storage Foundation, … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Windows Server
Tagged Disk Group, Veritas Storage Foundation, Windows Disk Management
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Priority of outlook email inbox rules
After years of using outlook and it’s processing rules to move received mail into different folders upon receipt I found myself confused by a scenario not too dissimilar to the following taken from www.superuser.com: Rule 1: Email from my boss … Continue reading
Removing Internet Explorer Proxy Settings Using Group Policy
I recently found myself taking over the support of an IT environment in which the Internet Explorer configurations were far from standardised. One particular pain experienced was that some client PCs had a variety of different proxy servers configured, not … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Windows Server
Tagged GPO, Group Policy, Internet Explorer, Login script, regedit, Registry edit, Remove Proxy Settings
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Automatic IIS log removal
Having seen the data used on the C:\ drive of a number of Windows Small Business Server 2008 machines slowly spiral out of control, reducing the free space to only 1-2Gb on 50Gb+ drives I started to suspect something strange was happening. With the use of a handy tool named Tree Size which is available as a free download, I soon discovered it was the IIS logs that had been hogging all the space. IIS itself, performs no log rotation. The only way to control them is with the use of some VBS script. Continue reading
Posted in IIS, Microsoft, Windows Server
Tagged IIS, SBS, script, Small Business Server, VBS, Windows Server 2008
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Mail Enable Active Directory Groups for Exchange 2007/2010
Unlike Exchange 2003, Active Directory distribution groups do not, by default, appear within Exchange or outlook for users to send mail to all members of that group. This proved particularly confusing in my case when making my first Active Directory 2003 to 2008 and Exchange 2003 to 2007 migration…although the groups in AD appeared to migrate as expected none of my users could send mail to them. The solution? Mail enable the groups. Continue reading
Posted in Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft
Tagged Active Directory, Exchange, Mail Enabled Groups, Microsoft
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