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Ran into this on a new MOSS 2007 installation (on Windows Server 2008), not sure why exactly, as it was a simple, standard install done a dozen or more times but I digress… If you get this… Failed to resolve the site ID for ‘Office Server Web Services’ It can be resolved with this… stsadm …

So, I discovered a weird issue tonight with Windows Server 2003 DHCP Services, and thus far, haven’t found it documented – but was able to reproduce it and did discover the cause. So being that is what blogging is all about in the tech community, sharing knowledge, I’m going to: Issue When Windows Server 2003 …

Ok, I’ve run across this a few times and while I’ve never (bothered) to (worry about/research) fix the issue permanently, here’s your workaround for the situation where you are trying to launch your Windows Vista VPN connection (PPTP, etc.) by choosing ‘Connect to a network’. Here’s what it looks like when it happens   Lame, …

If you have played with VMWare ESXi for a while and tried to monitor the underlying hardware with any degree of success (SNMP), give it up.  Although the future looks a little brighter with HP providing some functionality with ‘their’ version of ESXi, the reality for us, as a business, when recommending VMWare virtualization to …

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

Here’s the inventory: Single Exchange Server (2007) on Window Server 2008 100 Users, all connecting via RPC/HTTPS (Outlook anywhere or Webmail) Domain Controller (1 of 2) is on the Exchange Server itself   The problem: Although I’m not positive on the timing of the issue, it would appear we had Exchange Server SP1 installed. However, …

First off, apologies to the original author of this content… I had tucked this away in an Outlook note probably 8 years ago (I’ve updated it a little as it references modems, thankfully of which, I haven’t touched one in nearly that long). I didn’t note the author at the time and if they want …

Never mind the Shaw issues of late, keep in mind that the idiot George W and his ‘gosh, I like to muck with father time so we can find and sell more oil’ DST change the other day, may well be having a larger impacting/sweeping effect.   So, here’s my quick hit list for how …

Fought an Exchange 2007 Server for almost 6 hours tonight. Turns out Rollup 6, which is part of automated Windows updates (yikes!) has some issues and kills OWA (without errors even, weird).   The patch is available in Windows Update or at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959241   The behavior is, that OWA will either not even display at …

Well, we’ve come across this in our office (thanks Robert for pointing it out) and we thought we’d share.   SBS2008 (Std & Premium) have been shipping with 2 server installation disks and each of these disks has a set of installation codes on back of the disk sleeve.  M$ screwed up with the first …