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Thu, Jul 2 2009 19:51

Port 48195 – increased attacks

Body: I was onsite today with a client and they still use Scorpion Softwares Firewall Dashboard product to monitor their ISA 2004 server. The morning report came in and it showed that from some time yesterday there had been a massive increase in the attacks...
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Thu, May 21 2009 15:12

How to mess up your network with virtualisation…

Body: Got a call from a friend yesterday. He had some problems with his network which essentially revolved around Active Directory being messed up. The exact details are a little unclear, but the long and short of it was that around a week back, their...
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Sat, Apr 18 2009 22:02

Kyocera Print Mode Error from Outlook 2007

Body: Last week my accountant called me with a problem. He was having problems “printing anything to the Kyocera printer”. He has a Kyocera Mita KM-1650 KX printer connected to his SBS 2003 Server via the network. All users print to this main printer...
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Mon, Jan 19 2009 15:16

What is WHEA_Logger?

Body: One of my clients servers stopped working over the weekend – literally just stopped. We could not login via the console, remote connectivity was unresponsive. We had to power cycle the system to get it running again. After it came up, I began to...
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Sun, Nov 16 2008 16:07

Netgear WGR 614 Router Config Tip

Body: I had to program a Netgear WGR614 Router last Thursday and the normal http://routerlogin.net would not work. Most frustrating indeed. I did some searching and found that if I did a hard reboot of the router and then went to http://192.168.1.1/basicsetting...
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Wed, Aug 13 2008 6:25

Strange folder names during SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration?

Body: I was doing an SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 Migration last week and had something very strange happened. I had a directory called Network Data that literally disappeared. Below you can see the Windows Explorer view shows no trace of the Network Data directory...
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Sat, Aug 2 2008 23:09

Thank you Steve Cooper!

Body: Steve Cooper is the local Aussie Director for PSS, and for years I've been berating... err suggesting to him that here needs to be a better way for us to get a hotfix than to call Microsoft all the time. Well there is - and has been for some...
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Sat, Aug 2 2008 23:05

Exchange 2003 mail getting lost???

Body: I've had an ongoing scenario on my SBS 2003 server that I've never fully investigated in which mail to some yahoogroups gets "lost". You check the SMTP queues and it's not there so you believe it's gone out. Then later...
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Wed, Jul 30 2008 5:57

How to remove Antivirus 2008

Body: I had a migraine yesterday - a pretty severe one that lasted 12hours plus. So today I was off to the Doctors to figure out what it was and get some drugs to deal with it again. Ok - so then I went to the Pharmacy to get the prescription filled....
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Mon, May 12 2008 7:48

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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Sat, Apr 12 2008 3:28

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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Thu, Jan 10 2008 20:14

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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Fri, Sep 7 2007 18:56

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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Wed, Sep 5 2007 23:19

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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Wed, Sep 5 2007 19:32

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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Thu, Aug 30 2007 18:49

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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Tue, Aug 28 2007 21:17

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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