The ramblings of a computer geek
Heres a nasty little problem, we have a SharePoint farm that consists of 4 servers, two Web Front Ends, and application server and a SQL server. This is Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Enterprise SP2 running on Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit), all was well until a recent automatic update was installed which broke the application […]
More...Sometimes the interactive logon message that you can apply to machines via GPO can get in the way. But you may not want to disable it for everyone just an OU, in which case configure this against a low down OU (i.e. one nearest the computer object) that will get precedence. GPO Computer Configuration Policies […]
More...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 […]
More...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 […]
More...After a power cut one of our Windows 2008 R2 VMs was dead, even though it was cleanly shutdown by the UPS something must have happened and it would not boot. When booting the VM it would just boot straight into the Windows Recovery tool, this was not good news. Running any commands against the […]
More...If you ever need to watch a log file to see if something goes into it, here is a cheeky command to do that. The -f says to watch for updates, the -n 500 shows how many lines to bring back.
More...When Backup Sharepoint 2007, with DPM 2010, it catalougues MOSS items every 24 hours , if you need to force this operation to be able to restore item you can use powershell command. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634233.aspx. Note this operation happens out of band from the normal backup, sometimes it will fail even though the backup is successful. […]
More...I was getting the errors of “The Certificate is Invalid for Exchange Server Usage” to “The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.” Here is how I fixed them in our test environment before we deployed to live, the first error is a common one, the second one seems to only […]
More...We had an interesting one with Postfix, we were recieving mail fine from all other domains. Then one domain (in this case domain.co.uk) started not to get through, no changes had been made at our end. What was happening was that their domain.co.uk nameservers were not reporting TXT records properly, rather than reporting nothing or […]
More...Upon setting up a “send as” permission a mailbox for a user I got stuck. Even though the permissions on the user object were correctly setup for “Send As” when trying to send as a user with Outlook 2010 I kept on getting an error message. After double and triple checking the permissions I concluded […]
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