Recently, I’ve tested the VM Converter on a Windows 2003 Server. The VM converter was installed on another station for client and server installation. We was trying to convert a Windows 2003 server from physical to virtual (p2v). The conversion went fine up to 95% and then it failed and gave an “Reconfiguration Failed” error [...]
How to remove Exchange Server transaction log files?
There are several ways where you can have you Exchange server to remove the transaction logs.
1- Running Full Backup on the Exchange server
2- Running an Incremental Backup on the Exchange server (* A full backup will still be needed for the first time so that there are references [...]
Recently, we ran into this problem where access to our VM was unavailable. We are getting the “Unable to access a file since it is locked” error message with one of our VM that got converted from physical to Virtual (P2V) with the VM Converter.
Searching the web, we found this site that has a solution [...]
There are several companies that provide software to do this. Our favorite is VMWare. This is because it is easy and simple.
1. You will need to download the VMWare Converter from the VMWare site (http://www.vmware.com). This is free.
2. Once downloaded you will need to install it. We choose the Client/Server installation. This give you the [...]
In order to run multiple IE versions in Windows, you will need to download a program called “Multiple IE”.
Download Link
This package is bundled with different versions of IE in it.
IE 3.0
IE 4.01
IE 5.01
IE 5.5
IE 6.0
This is a great tool for developers that need to test their codes against different versions of the IE browser.
VN:F [1.0.8_357]please [...]
You can pretty much disable any services in Windows with Group Policy. Below is an example for a Windows 2008 AD environment.
1. Open the “Group Policy Manager” under the Administrator Tools (You might need to do this in a domain controller)
2. Create a new GPO or edit your default one.
3. Edit the GPO by right [...]
If you are getting a certificate security alert with the following error when you open Outlook 2007.
“the name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site”
This is because the name on the server and the name on the certificate is mismatched. To resolve this, you will need to [...]
Our Exchange 2007 CAS server recently logged with an IIS deadlock error.
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC-WP
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2262
Description: ISAPI ‘C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll’ reported itself as unhealthy for the following reason: ‘Deadlock detected’.
All of our users weren’t able to access their emails with OWA or Outlook clients. The only solution was to restart all of our [...]
There are several ways to do this, but the two most common are:
1. Using the shortcut keys: By holding down the Control and Shift keys, you simplying double clicking on the program that you want to run as administrator. You might be prompted for UAC. If so, simpily select “Yes”.
2. Right clicking on the program: [...]
When a machine loses its file associations to the .exe and .reg, it will prompt you with the Open With windows everytime you wanted to run these files. The reason whythe machine loses its associations is most likely from viruses or malwares. Make sure to run a virus and malware scan afterware.
How to associated .exe and [...]
