After trying a number of times to set up an iSCSI target in a VMWare virtual machine using FreeNas, I failed miserably until I found this little gem of an article http://www.fixtheexchange.com/Budget-Laboratory-Part2-iSCSI-Virtual-SAN-with-FreeNAS-8 Hope it will be useful for somebody else....
Today during a maintenece period, I noticed the following in a Windows SBS server log: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {some-cls-id-here} to the user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (some-sid-here). This...
Today I wanted to install Exchange Service Pack 3 on my SBS 2008 box. MSKB 982423 says the only thing to worry about is Forefront, which I’m not using. I ran setup.exe as an Administrator. The Readiness checks passed fine. However within a few seconds of starting the upgrade, I got this error:...
Tonight I was trying to upgrade an SBS 2008 server that was running MS Exchage 2007 SP1 to SP3 and had the following error when running the extracted setup.exe. "Failed to initialize t he log file: Access to the path "c:\ExchangeSetupLogs\ExchangeSetup.log" is denied. Setup will not continue...
I used to use Roxio to write ISO images to CD but it was too heavy for what I needed. In comes a nice light utility that works on all versions of windows including Windows7 http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm...
Moving the My Documents folder There could be many reasons for moving your My Documents folder. You may want to keep the folder safe by storing it on a seperate drive and free up space on your system drive. Perhaps you want to have it located in a directory with other personal files so that you can back...
Recently I downloaded from TechNet a number of development tools which were distributed as ISO images ready for burning to a CD or DVD. All well and good but I didn't have a spare writable DVD at the time but I was desparate to install the software. Coming to the resuce was my old friend 'Magic...
Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, network administrator and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to...
Whilst writing some login scripts for Group policies in a windows environment I came across these useful resources: Creates a custom event log named Scripts. Const NO_VALUE = Empty Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WshShell.RegWrite _ "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services...
I recently came across this problem on a customer’s computer and tried everything I could find via Google. Naturally, none of the solutions worked. When you click on the icon to start Outlook, the window shows up briefly and then disappears, popping up that extremely meaningful message: Cannot...
