January 2012 – geekmungus

Windows Cannot Obtain the Domain Controller Name for Your Computer

November 5, 2022January 25, 2012 by Tristan Self

A Windows XP machine doesn’t apply computer GPO on boot, all seems to be well and the GPOs can be run once logged on and all appear to be okay. You just don’t get the software installation happening or any scripts running on boot. Strangely if you set the machine to use a static IP … Read more

Microsoft SQL 2000 SP4 In-Place Upgrade to SQL 2005 – Upgrade Advisor Error

November 5, 2022January 13, 2012 by Tristan Self

We had a very old server running SQL 2000 SP4 that we needed to upgrade to SQL 2005, as we didn’t have the staff resource available for a complete rebuild of the whole server to Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 we decided to do an inplace upgrade. All seemed to go swiminingly until I hit … Read more