Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
It turns out that Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) has a dandy EXPORT, IMPORT feature. The only thing that isn’t particularly obvious is that you have to EXPORT (and IMPORT) in the GROUP POLICY OBJECTS folder, and not on any of the OU’s. On the old/source domain, start GPMC Expand your Read more…
BACKGROUND: Every machine I install the lastest Windows Update Agent on results in a 800B0001 error when getting updates “FROM YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR” but have no problems when getting “UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE”. This is the same as: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinclient7rc/thread/e64bdfef-f92a-4924-85f1-6b858ec81c59 All of the machines in question are Win 7 64Bit Enterprise Read more…
There are two ways to change the favicon in a Sharepoint 2010 / MOSS site. The easiest (by far) is to simply change the FAVICON.ICO file in your Sharepoint folder. For me that path was C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES Note that after I changed this, I cleared my IE9 cache Read more…
I have seen this error before but not had the time to troubleshoot it. The error basically means that your out of Windows resource memory (not to be confused with your servers physical RAM). Below is a good explaination from an MSDN Blog: What is Pool? First, Pool is not Read more…
I recently took a full day Windows Server 2012 course and I prep’d for it by installing the Beta and making the following list of questions, which Microsoft staff answered at various points during the day: Q: Can HyperV live migrate without System Center 2012 A: Yes, just right click Read more…
As you likely already know System Center 2012 combines 5 older products into one new product. So System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM, no longer exists as a standalone product. The difference between SC 2012 DataCenter and SC 2012 Standard boils down to just two things: Money: Datacenter is about $4000 Read more…
This video covers many important features of HyperV version 3 which will be included in Windows Server 2012 as well as Windows 8 desktop, such as: the new VHD format is VHDx and supports upto 16TB multiple VHDx’s can be “pooled” into one virtual disk, up to 64TB in size Read more…
If want to remove a tab from a Sharepoint 2010 Foundation site and you: go to the tab/site in question, click SITE ACTIONS, SITE SETTINGS, DELETE THIS SITE and click the DELETE button you may see the the following useless error: Error Specified method is not supported. Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Read more…
If you want to rule out YOUR mail server and /or mail client as a problem, you can easily send a short message to a server using the following command line: telnet mail.arrrrs.com 25 note: change the mail server to the server you want to CONNECT to. ehlo mail from:anyaddress@adnydomain.com Read more…
If you want to use Group Policy to configure the 10 UAC related group polices so a Windows 7 client will be set to the third level on the slider bar: “Default – Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer. Don’t notify me when I make changes to Read more…
Below is a quick table providing the the 2012 roadmap: Windows 8 Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013 (UPDATED 2/10) Windows Server 8 Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013 (UPDATED 1/27) System Center 2012 Anticipated release: Early 2012(UPDATED 2/7) SQL Server 2012 Anticipated release: First half of Read more…
Users found this error connecting to a Juniper Mag2600 and binging and googling this error only brought up semi useless items like: check personal firewall install windows patch for loopback ip-address issue (which appears to relate to Windows XP) unmark automatic proxy settings in the Browser I checked the Mag Read more…
The short answer is, almost all Windows (INCLUDING Windows 7 HOME – see the last paragraph in this message for details) and Mac operating systems; the long answer is: Operating system Supported Domain Join Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional, Enterprise (x86 and x64) Yes Yes Windows 7 Home Premium, Basic, Starter Read more…
Below is a curt list of addin’s you need to have if you are using Small Business Server (SBS) 2011: Microsoft®Office 365 Integration Module for Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Windows 7 Professional Pack for Small Business Server 2011 In you have a Windows Phone 7 cell, you should get Read more…
This disaster recovery tool is often shown for only for Windows 7, Vista and XP (both 32bit and 64bit) but their site says it also works with Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008, 2003… This program can easily be used to recover lost data, backup or clone disks, edit the registry, undo Read more…
The following the my approved process for patching VM’s: Wait at least one week after “Patch Tuesday”; this gives Microsoft time to have others beta test the patches and for Microsoft to pull / adjust problem patches Shut Down (VM equivalent of Power Off) any running Virtual Machines Copy the Read more…