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Monday, May 12, 2008 7:48 AM

USB Flash Drive not working on Windows Vista?

Body: I picked up a 16G Corsair Flash Voyager when I was in the US last month from Frys. It worked fine on my laptop but refused to work on my desktop. Instead I got the dialog box on below requesting drivers for it. Naturally I didn't have drivers...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:28 AM

What is C:\Windows\Installer and why does it take up so much space?

Body: On one of my servers, I got a low disk space alert today for the C: drive. This server hosts a number of websites including this blog so I was somewhat puzzled as to what would consume so much space. The C: drive on this server is 30GB in size....
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:14 PM

Interesting W2003 SP2 Side Effect

Body: I was onsite earlier this week helping out a friend with his SBS 2003 installation. He had done the install himself and all things looked pretty much ok. He had applied W2003 Service Pack 2 as well. I showed him how to setup computers and all worked...
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Friday, September 07, 2007 6:56 PM

Moving SBS2003 from a 5yr old server to a new one using StorageCraft

Body: We normally do a swing migration for many of our clients when we upgrade from one server to another. This has the effect of minimising the downtime to the client and at the same time having a new server in place that's faster and cleaner than...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:19 PM

Exchange 2003 to 2007 Migration issues – mail stops flowing.

Body: We're in the middle of migrating one of our clients from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. As part of that we currently have both Exchange servers in the domain and therefore some users on one version and some of the other version. Today we got...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:32 PM

WSUS 2.0 synchronises but will not download content

Body: Onsite today and I was checking a WSUS 2.0 server to ensure that I approved any waiting patches etc. I found that the WSUS server had stalled in the download process. It could synchronise successfully, but it sat at Downloading 0.00MB of xx MB....
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:49 PM

How to diagnose a Network Port problem.

Body: Today I was onsite with one of my clients and experienced a strange problem with one PC that was being ghosted from an image. The client runs a chain of retail outlets and when they open a new outlet they use Ghost to prepare a machine based on...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:17 PM

GFI Webmonitor for ISA v3.0 to v4.0 Upgrade may cause very slow internet access for users

Body: Today I've done an inplace upgrade for a customers ISA 2004 server up to ISA 2006 – the upgrade itself went well once we removed the Firewall Client Share in ISA 2004. The client uses GFI's Webmonitor for ISA Server to monitor their users...
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