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DHCP: An error occurred while accessing the dhcp database

I received the error message "An error occurred while accessing the DHCP database. Look at the DHCP server event log for more information on this error" when administering DHCP this afternoon. It took me ages to track down what the problem was Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:44 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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VMWare BSODs: Hard drive related

I’ve been able to isolate my VMWare BSODs to hard drive issues. No hard drive has failed – yet, but my first clue was when the Windows crash reports stopped saying “Unknown error” and started saying “Hard drive problem – Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 4:29 PM by philipnet | 1 Comments
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Server 2003 SP2

Is it me, or are you getting BSODs when installing Server 2003 SP2? I suspect that it’s the VMWare environment that I’m running it under that’s causing the odd problem – how can I get a BSOD under a 2GB 2processor VMWare machine Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:15 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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VMWare: to allocate or not

Through experimentation I found that pre-allocating VMWare disks is the best course of action. Sure, you might over allocate disks sizes on the host, but that can save having to restore a from backup when things go wrong. I recent had the opportunity Read More...
Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 12:36 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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Importing your blog into Facebook

Something I’ve been looking for is the ability to link my WindowsAdvice.com blog with my FaceBook profile. Now, with thanks to this post by Josh Ledgard , I can do just that! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick Read More...
Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 11:18 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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VMWare performance

I was looking for a few documents on VMWare performance. I’ve recently had the notion of building myself a meaty server running Linux (Ubuntu) on which I can run test servers/desktops as much as I want. It saves running them on multiple 500MHz PIIIs Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:08 PM by philipnet | 1 Comments
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New job; New reality

I’ve changed jobs and am now working for a large insurance firm in Surrey, UK. I am firmly in second line support with delusions of 3 rd line (although those delusions are slowly turning into reality). It’s a great environment, a great team Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:08 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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WSUS bugbears

One of my bugbears about WSUS 2 is that it isn’t easy to find and destroy superseded updates. The only way I’ve found to do this is to view all updates with any approval and synchronised at any time. Then – manually – go down the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 10:59 AM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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GetRight - download manager

I ought to put a plug in for the little utility GetRight . I found it many many years ago and has saved me thousands of minutes (if not hours) in re-downloading files, resuming files, busting through tight bandwidth restrictions and connection ratios. Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:56 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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FLEXnet AdminStudio SMS Edition

It’s been a while since I played with (or even used ) Admin Studio SMS Edition. It seems that MS/Macrovision have updated it beyond the free SMS version 6 they were offering, to version 8. It can be downloaded from: http://www.macrovision.com/products/adminstudio/adminstudio/editions/smsdownload.shtml Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:49 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments

ITMU update for SMS 2003

I’ve downloaded the recent ITMU update for SMS 2003 that’s been mentioned at various places . One first annoyance is that I had to uninstall my current ITMU through Add/Remove Programs. Otherwise the installation would fail with ‘an Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:28 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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VMWare your DC

I had a DC that ran on a old PC. Whilst there was nothing wrong with the hardware, the hard drive used was 10Gb big and it made so much noise it was unbelievable! I quickly grew tired of it – I know PCs aren’t the quietest of things but this Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:14 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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RPC over HTTP concluded

It’s been sometime since I posted here, or even ‘resolved’ the RPC over HTTP problems I was having. My colleague was also looking a getting RPC over HTTP working. He had found a few posts online that stated that you need to reboot the Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:04 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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RPC over HTTP

I’ve been struggling trying to get RPC over HTTP working from our main Exchange 2003 server. The box itself is on Server 2003 SP1 and is running SP1 of Exchange as well. The problem is that all RPC tests fail and Outlook constantly talks to our Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:15 PM by philipnet | 1 Comments
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What did I get out of “The Best of MMS”?

Well the rain held off until I got home – so so much for that reducing the number of people who actually attended. However there were noticeable spaces, so MS were right to overbook it (as is the general practise anyway). So what did I get out of “The Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:32 PM by philipnet | 0 Comments
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