Just recently my wife’s step mother purchased a brand new mac book pro.It ended up in my hands because she wanted me to “boot camp” it or basically have me set up the computer to run Windows 7 on a separate partition so he can run his games and follow his Counter-Strike: Global […]
Microsoft made a major boo boo when it released OFFICE UPDATE KB2412171 through Windows Update on December 14th, 2010. The office update originally designed to fix some issues between Outlook and Exchange ended up BREAKING Outlook 2007 across the board! Some of the issues it caused included: Loss of the Archive and AutoArchive feature. They […]
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Recently I was tasked with syncing a public folder with “contacts” in it to Blackberry handheld users. After a ton of google searches and a call to Blackberry Technical support I have compiled my results and give you the following options: Three choices for syncing of public folders. 1. If you have BES ver 5.0 or above AND […]
Running out of drive space on your root drive? Check to see if your Pagefile.sys is eating up all space! First grab this handy utility : Space Monger. I prefer the old version because it’s free, but if you want to pay $25 buck grab the new version. Both of them do essentially the same […]
I’ve been spending a ton of time at my new job trouble shooting Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 errors. Here is one of the more odd errors that sometimes shows up as: ”an error occurred while creating or accessing the directory specified for this operation”. For more information refer to link V-79-57344-4611 The problem is a […]
This one is pretty basic, but it happens alot so I wanted to post it here. Recently we had a customer running an application in a networked environment. The program was installed into the programs x86 folder on a windows 2008 server standard and was being accessed via a terminal server session. When the user […]
From Microsoft: In Active Directory, the servicePrincipalName (SPN) attribute is a multivalued, nonlinked attribute that is built from the DNS host name. The SPN is used in the process of mutual authentication between the client and the server hosting a particular service. The client finds a computer account based on the SPN of the service […]
A vmdk file is a VMware Virtual Disk file. This is the file used by VMware ESX server that represents a hard drive on a virtual machine. Renaming a vmdk file is not as simple as opening the datastore viewer, right click and rename. No, that would be too easy. To do it, you have […]
The process for deleting VM’s and removing them from your SAn is quite simple, but what you may not know is that the simple way will leave all kinds of remmants, and orphaned files still sitting on your SAN. In this post I will detail everything you need to keep your SAN clean and free […]
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