tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58836709489378120672011-10-06T23:50:35.066+02:00A day in the life of a Systems Engineer.Rafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11941412124686309561noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883670948937812067.post-64617730298836856702011-10-06T23:50:00.001+02:002011-10-06T23:50:35.352+02:00

213,000.00 nice job(s), steve. bye.

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Scenario: I have a Brand New Dell Poweredge Server with SBS2011. The server has a RD1000 SATA Cartridge Unit. The total disk capacity of server is nearly 1TB (divided in two partititions), but actual data occupies about 222 GB. The SATA Disk Cartridges are 300GB. Problems, problems, everywhere (and not any hint to solve): SBS Backup does not recognize the RD1000 both as a Disk Unit and as

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Symptom: You are using a notebook with Windows 7 x64 and a HP USB 2.0 Docking Station. Your IE9 and/or Firefox experience is dramatic.Cause: The problem is not in the browser software but in the Display Link Driver.With the USB docking station comes the driver 5.4, which has a very poor performance.Resolution: Upgrade to latest Display Link Drivers directly from Display Link Inc. (as for 07/09/

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Symptom: When you try to install certificate services over a Windows 2003 Server you get the following errorAn error was detected while configuring Certificate Services. The Certificate Services Setup Wizard will need to be rerun to complete the configuration. Certificate Services Setup failed with the following error: A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are

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Cause: You install Outlook 2010 "standalone" in a computer with a previous version of Office installed / you upgrade only the Outlook program of your Office suite.Symptom: Some features of Outlook 2010 are missing, and the corresponding configuration options and/or buttons are disabled or greyed out.Workarounds: I found this interesting article over the web suggesting some workarounds.http://

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Sono molte le coppie che condividono la passione per la fotografia.Tuttavia non sempre è possibile, per ragioni di costo e di spazio, avere un corpo macchina SLR digitale per ciascuno. In questo caso sarebbe auspicabile che i produttori di macchine fotografiche digitali, che ora integrano diversi dispositivi nelle fotocamere, come ad esempio il ricevitore gps per geotaggare le foto, includessero

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Sintomi:Quando si cerca di aggiungere una regola di trasporto di tipo disclaimer ad Exchange Server 2010 sp1 la MMC va in crash con il seguente errore:FX:{A5406CA3-6393-48a0-8827-CF06F0C94C55} in Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.SnapInMessagePumpProxy.OnThreadException(Object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e) in System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.OnThreadException(Exception

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Ottimo tutorial per utilizzare una autorità di certificazione interna per Exchange 2010.Il punto chiave è l'aggiunta della policy per i certificati wildcard al server di certificazione.

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When terminal user logs off from terminal server session the server crashes with the following error codes:0x805000f0x000000ba(hex codes).Known bug in 2003 server rdp dlls.Working hotfix available.

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A customer application needs to administer a SQL2000 server. If you want to run that administration utility from a pc on wich you don't have SQL Server installed you get an error stating you don't have SQLDMO.DLL registered.To have it registered you can follow these instrucions:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B248241&x=17&y=8Remember you can find the dll in the folloqing folder:%

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Hi, this one was a rather annoying problem, as it seemed to be a client issue but it was not. I struggled to find clues on the internet, and none helped me. Since i solved it on my own I'd like to share... you can never know.Symptoms:Clients cannot send faxes with Archive media error. You change the archiviation folder in client settings, but nothing happens.The fax server doesn't send or receive

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Hi,in order to change the SEP Clients server without reinstalling all the clients you can browse forSYLINKREPLACER.ZIPThanks to Symantec Staff...

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SYMPTOMS: Installation of .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 in 2008 server R2 fails with 8004e00f Com+ error.To resolve this issue just Start RPC and RPC LOCATOR services.

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Symptoms:You have an application working with IIS 7 and .Net Framework 1.1.When you browse a .asmx page you get error 404.17 :HTTP Error 404.17 - Not FoundThe requested content appears to be script and will not be served by thestatic file handler.Problem:The site is not propely configured to handle Asp.Net extensions.Solution:In IIS Manager click on the problematic site.Under "Handler Mappings"

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In order to succesfully schedule an sql backup batch witch expressmaint utility you must ensure that the following conditions are true.- Choose an administrative account to run the batch- make sure it has full control file system permissions on the folders containing the batch file and the destination folder- choose a destination folder with no spaces, and avoid using " in the batch file.- since

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Symptom: When you enable RAID mode in embedded Sata controller on a Proliant ML150 G6 server you cannot install 2008 server x64 because of an "unsigned drivers" error.Downloading latest x64 drivers from HP support & software site does not help.Workaround that work(around)ed for me:1) Install windows server 2003 (32 or 64 bit) from any media you have, and don't activate it (it is just a jumping

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How to: re-initialize the offline files cache and database.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230738/en-usRaf

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Since I'm not resolving new problems by myself I've decided to start collect link to useful information found all around the web.Here it is my first link.A Office 2007 user asked me to have the possibility to create a new Office document in old 97-2003 format from the context menu.Searching on the web I found this solution.My best regards to the author!Raf

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Scenario:a brand new acer travelmate with Vista OS and Office 2007, connected to a Windows Server 2003 R2.Whenever Saving an office document to a network share on the server this error occurred:"There has been a network or file permission error. The network connection may be lost.File name.doc"Ctrl+Shift+I results in error code 200932 being displayed.Googleing around you usually find the MS KB

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Symptom:you are accessing a 2008 terminal server remote "web application" page, or the "Remote Web Operators" page in SBS2003 and receive the message to activate the MS RDP ActiveX control.You Click on Tools -> Manage Add-Ons -> Enable or Disable Add-Ons in IE to enable the Terminal Services ActiveX control, but you are unable to see/enable the Terminal Services ActiveX controlyou have IE7 on

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Once upon a time there was Access 2000, and if you wanted to deploy an application throughout your company you had two choices:Buy Access for every pc you needed the application to run onBuy the developer edition / Access runtime, which made it possible to distribute your .mdb application and distribute only the access runtime ("freely" since you didn't have to buy one for every pc).Now with

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If your Windows Vista get isolated from network and any ping command (even loopback) boinks an ungraceful "general error", think about this: have you tried to uninstall Norton Internet Security or tampered with any Symantec program while NIS was installed?Then try to find and run "norton removal tool", a cute program from Symantec that uninstalls programs by programmatically deleting files,

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Do you miss Remote Web Workplace from SBS 2003 in non sbs standard envinronments?Take a look at Terminal Service Gateway in combination with Terminal Web Access features of Windows 2008 Server.It rocks!And, relating to this, make it simple at home with Microsoft Windows Home Server

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Hey,In these days I'm working on old stuff...This post is just to le you all know that the operation in the subject is possible.Server Model: Dell Power Edge 2600RAID Controller: Perc 4/DI (firmware v. 251X)Added a new Dell 72 GB HDD and expanded existing array (yes, I've lost half the sotrage capacity of the new disk: noblesse oblige...)Only a couple of warnings:a) The rebuilding and resync

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There are several possible causes. In my case the partition table of the primary HD was corrupted.I chose to create a new one using GpartEd (and doing so lose all the content of existent partitions on the disk).

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After deleting the Shared Fax printer in SBS 2000, you are unable to reinstall it.This can be done only by reinstalling the Shared Fax Service through the "add/remove program" in control panel, and choosing the "Small Business Server 2000" and "Change/remove" button.Easy, or not?The procedure of reinstallation of the shared fax component shows a generic error and does not complete.Here is a

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Hi,welcome to my blog.This is mainly intended as a log of my troubleshooting activity, and perhaps a place where to insert interesting links.Hope this will be a useful hint to the many of us who struggle in the battle against variants, bugs, and user errors.Please notice the disclaimer.Raf

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