The ramblings of a computer geek
In our case, we were needing to remove some licences from some users, as we had an educational licence, the names of the service plans and licenses were a bit different. So we had two ways of doing it: 1 was just to remove the service plans we didn’t need. And the second was to […]
More...Problem: We had this conundrum, the search results were showing as blank when searching in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 but this was only for files and items, not for people that returned results fine. After checking the crawler and finding no errors and able to search within the index and finding items I came to the […]
More...Okay here’s a weird one, we had two identical clusters of firewalls running: ASA IOS: 9.0(2) ASDM: 7.1(2) One of the firewall clusters you could access https:// to get to the ASDM with no problem, the other one, you access you get page cannot be displayed with some error about SSL not working. Firstly I […]
More...When setting up your APC Management card (this includes the ATS Devices) you need to configure the IAS policy as follows. I’m assuming you know the basics of configuring a RADIUS device this is specifically how to get administrative privileges for users logging into the Management card. Without these additional settings, the user will get […]
More...Here’s something that came up, we are replacing a few switches and want to replace it will a couple of 3750s and a 3750e in a stack. The issue was that the 3750e has a different IOS to the 3750s but still must be the same version. After some playing around I found these versions […]
More...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, […]
More...PROBLEM: You upgraded DPM after the upgrade you can click to run any reports in “Reporting” within the DPM console and you get an error like the following: Cannot open database “DPMDB” requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user ‘%servername%\DPMR$%servername%. CAUSE: The account ‘%servername%\DPMR$%servername%. doesn’t have the correct mappings for the […]
More...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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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