The ramblings of a computer geek
PROBLEM: Using Microsoft DPM 2012 SP1 with the locally installed SQL 2008 R2 SP2 instance (i.e. the one that DPM installs) once installed, you can’t get into the Maintenance tasks using SQL Management Studio. Clicking on Maintenance Tasks gives you an error: The task with the name “Task Name XXX” and the creation name “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance.DbMaintenanceFileXXXTask, … Read more
PROBLEM: Your SQL transaction log has grown to be really big, this might be because a load of data was added, or your backup procedures were failing to truncate the logs. SOLUTION: Take a backup of the database, then open the SSMS and then run this command: Now take a full backup of the database … Read more
Error: Error: “The System Administrator Has Set Policies to Prevent This Installation”, when trying to install a software.” When trying to install an MSI on a server. Solution Browse the registry to HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer Create: DisableMSI Type: REG_DWORD value = 0 (0 should allow you to install it was originally 1) Install … Read more
PROBLEM: 0xC004F038 The software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. The count reported by your Key Management Service (KMS) is insufficient. Please contact your system administrator. CAUSE: Firstly KMS will not activate anything until it has seen at least 5 clients attempt to activate, so if you have activated less than … Read more
Here’s a weird one, When going into OWA from IE 9 or IE 10, using premium mode you can’t send an email to someone who you never have before i.e. you can send emails fine to someone that OWA puts in the autocomplete (NK2 nickname dropdown) but for a brand new address it doesn’t work. … Read more
A server that is not a domain controller has gone for a burton, the whole server is a melted heap, or is gently rocking back and forth in the corner muttering about its childhood. You need to restore the whole server. I’m assuming at this point you have a replacement server you can use, this … Read more
Look for these lines in the output: The first line that contains the red is the string identifying the VPN connection that we want to track; you may need some guess work and trial and error to find the correct one. Here there is also something to note, when there are multiple site to site … Read more
If you are seeing this when you start TomCat on a Shibboleth server you need to check your Shibboleth configuration as follows: Open relying-party.xml and change the maxvalidityinterval value within this section to: P46DT12H0M0.000S instead of: 4017600.
Although IPv6 is still fairly unused in the enterprise or home, it is beginning to gain traction, so I thought I should begin to learn about it. These articles there will be a few will chart my investigations into setting up IPv6, starting in this part with two workstations on the same network segment and … Read more
This assumes you have a APC Smart-UPS UPS with a Network Management Card, that you have already configured to allow SNMP connections and you’ve configured the community string. This is tested using MRTG running on Ubuntu with an AP9619 network management card in the UPSes. This took ages to find the correct metrics OIDs from … Read more