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  • 10 ans (suite) – Gagnez une licence Windows 7 Intégrale maintenant

    Bonsoir Pour continuer de vous remercier pour votre fidélité, je vous offre de nouveau ce soir une nouvelle licence Windows 7 Ultimate. Il suffit de répondre à ma question sur mon livre d’or, la première réponse gagne un Windows 7 Ultimate : http://mtoo.net/livre/livredor.php Quel est le nom de code...
    Posted to ToutWindows.com by Mtoo on Mon, Nov 16 2009
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  • 10 ans : un Windows 7 Ultimate à gagner

    Je met deux licences en jeu, pour les deux premiers qui me donnent la date de sortie officielle de Windows 7… Ici : http://mtoo.net/livre/livredor.php Quel le meilleur gagne ! Attention : Il y en aura d’autres dans la semaine qui suit !!! Laurent Gébeau (MToo)
    Posted to ToutWindows.com by Mtoo on Sat, Nov 14 2009
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  • EDUCAUSE 2009

    I'll be at EDUCAUSE next week in Denver. Come say hello if you'll be there too - I'll be at Booth #565 Wednesday and Thursday all day. Read More...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Wed, Oct 28 2009
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  • Visiting Active Directory Users Group UK – October 29th

    So if you're somewhere around London, I'll be speaking at the UK Active Directory Users Group. I've promised Mark Parris a deck on Active Directory Design topics, plus we'll talk about whatever else comes up. Details available here - http...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Oct 10 2009
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  • How to Sysprep in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

    About eighteen months ago, I blogged about how to run Sysprep for Windows Server 2008 and this has turned out to be the most popular article on this site by a long shot, so I figured I'd update it for Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7). If you...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sun, Oct 4 2009
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  • BlackBerry Administration Service Error

    If you get a "The request could not be completed" each time you access the BlackBerry Administration Service component in the BES5 administration website, make sure your service account password is not greater than 32 characters in length. Mine...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Mon, Sep 28 2009
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  • TEC EMEA 2009

    I'll be presenting at TEC again at their EMEA show in Berlin in about a week. Hope to see you there. Read More...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Sep 5 2009
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  • Looking for Rogue User Objects in Active Directory

    I had this problem I needed to solve earlier today which involved going through about 115,000 users and determining which ones existed in the source of record (some tables in an Oracle database). There's a bunch of ways to go about this, but, I settled...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Aug 29 2009
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  • Baseline Registry Settings for new Domain Controllers

    I have a list of baseline registry settings which I put on any new domain controller. I thought I'd share the VB Script below which sets all these as well as enables some performance counters. Many of the settings are applicable outside of a Domain...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Aug 1 2009
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  • McAfee EPO Agent Deployment Logs

    When McAfee EPO fails to push an agent out, the only information you get is that the task "Failed". This isn't really useful at all of course. Thus the trick is to go on your EPO server in %ProgramFiles%\McAfee\ePolicy Orchestrator\db\Logs...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Mon, Jul 13 2009
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  • DPM June Rollup

    FYI if you use Data Protection Manager (DPM), the predictably regular rollup for June is up, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970867 . This gets you to 2.0.8844. The bits are available without a call to PSS if you haven't got Premier portal access...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Jul 11 2009
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  • McAfee Troubleshooting Tip - CmdAgent

    If you're trying to troubleshoot McAfee EPO agents, there's a handy tool I recently discovered with the help of a friend. If you go in %ProgramFiles%\McAfee\Common Framework, launch cmdagent /s. You'll get the handy UI pictured below. With...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Jul 11 2009
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  • McAfee and SMTP Traffic

    I've been chasing after an issue with a new Exchange deployment not sending any outbound mail. When you telnet to port 25 on any SMTP server it just fails straight away as if there's a firewall or something in between. I finally got a network...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Mon, Jun 29 2009
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  • Windows 2008 Schema Update - INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS

    If you're trying to import an LDIF file with some schema changes on a Windows Server 2008 (or Vista) machine and it bails with an access denied error and an INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS messag, first make sure your account is in the Schema Admins group. Second...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Fri, Jun 12 2009
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  • Windows Firewall Rules for Data Protection Manager

    I've had the pleasure of trying to reverse engineer the firewall requirements DPM has since they've declined to document any of this in a useful fashion. My experience so far is that this product does something very slick with Exchange and brings...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sun, Jun 7 2009
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  • Editing Group Policies without ADUC or GPMC

    Under Windows Server 2003 (and 2000), Active Directory Users and Computers was always available by just launching dsa.msc. From there you could use the legacy Group Policy management interface if you didn't have the GPMC loaded. Windows Server 2008...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sun, Jun 7 2009
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  • Upgrading Anti-Virus Rules for Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers

    KB article 822158 does a good job covering all of the antivirus exclusions for Windows machines as well as for domain controllers in particular. If you're upgrading domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or better, be sure to update your anti-virus...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Jun 6 2009
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  • McAfee EPO Setup SQL Failure

    If you're trying to install McAfee EPO (ePolicy Orchestrator) 4.0 and setup is failing when it tries to connect to your SQL Server with a variety of worthless errors, be sure that the server name you specify matches the result of this SQL query exactly...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Jun 6 2009
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  • Exchange Databases Fail to Mount with 0x97E

    If you run into a scenario where your Exchange databases are failing to mount with either of these errors, first reference this Technet article . Assuming that doesn't apply then manually start the System Attendant (MSExchangeSA) service on the machine...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Jun 6 2009
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  • Resuming a Failed Exchange 2007 Setup

    If you've ever had Exchange 2007 setup fail partially, you've probably noticed that some of the components (maybe even the one it failed during) show up as installed, but, if you run the ExBPA (Best Practices Analyzer), it will probably complain...
    Posted to Brian Desmond's Blog by on Sat, Jun 6 2009
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