Microsoft Error Messages Archive

  • windows

    How To Monitor Event Logs?

    Tweet One of the tasks of being a Windows System Administrator is to monitor system event logs for errors and potential warning errors.  This article is to show you how to monitor event logs on servers with scripts.  You can use VB script or Powershell...

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  • spoolsv.exe is taking 99% of CPU

    spoolsv.exe is taking 99% of CPU

    Tweet Today, one of our users was experiment a problem on his computer where the spoolsv.exe file is taking 50% to 99% of his CPU.  The first thing we thought was that his Print spooler was currupted.  And it turns out that we were right. ...

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  • Event ID: 5782

    Event ID: 5782

    Tweet Dynamic registration or deregistration of one or more DNS records failed with the following error: %1 Event ID: 5782 – Dynamic registration or deregistration of one or more DNS records failed with the following error: No DNS servers configured for local system Resolution: Check...

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  • MS-Outlook-2010

    Outlook Keeps Crashing with emsmdb32.dll Module Error

    Tweet Today, one of our user experienced crashing of his Outlook when he launches Outlook 2007. Below is the error message we found on his event logs. Faulting application outlook.exe, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 4542840f, faulting module emsmdb32.dll, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 45428079, debug? 0, fault address...

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  • windows

    Windows Cannot Access The Specified Device, Path or File.

    Tweet Recently when we try to run an exe file on our Windows 2003 servers, we are seeing the following windows prompt Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file.  You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. For some reason,...

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  • exchange

    Event ID 9774

    Tweet Today, our Exchange server is experiencing the following error Corrupt Message detected. Fid =  1-2532F23859 ; Mid = 1-2234FBEEFC ; Some or all properties of this message will not be transferred correctly. This is the first time we experienced this type of error.  It...

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  • windows2008

    Cluster Service Fails To Start

    Tweet Below are some of the Event Ids that you might see and encounter on the Event Logs when the Cluster service fails. - Event ID 1000 Cluster service suffered an unexpected fatal error at line %1 of source module %2. The error code was...

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  • windows

    Windows cannot set up homegroup on this computer (Error code 0×80630801)

    Tweet A lot of people are getting this error when they are trying to setup the homegroup feature on Windows 7.  This feature needs two computers running Windows 7.  Otherwise, you will get this error. If you are still experiencing problem, you might want to...

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  • exchange

    How to renew self signed certifcate for Exchange?

    Tweet Event ID 12018 and 12017 If you are getting the following errors in your Event Logs, then this means you have to renew your Exchange certicates. When Exchange is first installed, the certifcates that are created only last for one year. You will need...

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  • eventlogs

    Event ID 9358 and Event ID 9331

    Tweet Event ID:      9358 OALGen could not update the timestamp of the previous version of offline address list ‘\Global Address List’.  Please check earlier event log messages for the specific error. - Default Offline Address Book Event ID:      9331 OALGen encountered error 8004010f (internal ID...

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