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 - the clue was that I was adding a DHCP reservation; every time I clicked on ...

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 when I don’t get one with a 512MB 1processor VMWare machine? Host memory? Host ...

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 to experiment with allocating disk or not allocating disks under VMWare. I was under the ...

One of my bugbears about WSUS 2 is that it isn’t easy to find and destroy superseded updates.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 huge(!) list of updates and where any update has an icon to the left (whether ...