Unless you happen to be the developer, or involved in the code writing process it is rare that you will learn all the “undocumented features” of any given software. Such is the case for myself and one of the techs I manage involving VMWare’s ESX server product. The company we work for went completely virtual […]
I have discussed becoming a GACP (Google AdWords Certified Professional) in a previous post, so feel free to check it out. I have decided that I am committed to adding this certification to my resume and have started watching the videos in the Google Learning Center. I have finished the first section and for the […]
I was recently tasked with cleaning up an exchange mail store that was nearing the 75 GB limit for the Exchange 2003 server it was being used on. (In actually, the mail store was 45GB and the public folder store was 26GB putting the total for the store near 71GB.) The event log indicated that […]
To change the default location of the My Documents folder, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, and then point to My Documents. 2. Right-click My Documents, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Target tab. 4. In the Target box, do one of the following: * Type the path to the folder location that you […]
Last week immediately following the time shift for “daylight savings” we noticed our Primary Domain Controler (PDC) and our Backup Domain Controler (BDC) had a time difference of greater than 30 mins. This was not caused by the time shift, but something we discovered while checking to see if our infrastructure had updated the time […]
This is useful when you have been doing consultant work on your own laptop, while joined to a clients domain, and you wish to leave said company while still retaining all the work and setting you had while joined to their domain. I’ve found doing a manual transfer to be more reliable then using the […]
When you try to connect to a remote fax printer on a computer that is running Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Enterprise, the fax installation fails, and you get “Windows can not find SYSOCMGR.exe” error message! This issue occurs because fax installation tries to install the fax feature by using the Windows Components Wizard […]
PROBLEM: Users unable to login to the domain – DCs not replicating RESOLUTION: => Set the RPC Locator service to Automatic and started on the PDC. => Still DCdiag gave errors of 1355. => Ran dcdiag on both PDC and BDC – both showed problems with sysvol and netlogon shares => Checked and found that […]
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