For those that wanted to know if you can move or delete the i386 folder on your C: drive, the answer is YES. The i386 folder is just a copy of the Windows installation. You can move and delete this folder and it won’t crash or hang your system. The i386 folder is useful whenever [...]
Recently, one of our Exchange server is recording MSExchangeSA errors in the Event logs.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: General
Event ID: 5007
Date: 19/03/2010
Time: 10:09:23
User: N/A
Computer: COMPUTER
Description:
Event ID 5007: An error occurred during the message tracking decode operation. Function:ScOpen . <<0xc0070842 – The Server service is not started.>>
Event ID 5007: An error occurred during the message [...]
When creating GPO Preference shortcut using the “File System Object”, you might get the following error in the Event logs.
The computer ‘<Name> preference item in the ‘<Policy> {GUID}’ Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code ‘0×80070002 The system cannot find the file specified.’ This error was suppressed.
Usually this is because [...]
For those that are newbies in the Windows environment, here is how to renew an IP address in Windows.
1. Open the Command Prompt
Click Start -> Run -> type CMD
2. In the Command Prompt, type “ipconfig /release” and hit enter. This will release your current IP address.
3. Next, type in “ipconfig /renew” and hit enter. This [...]
Below are some useful links on how to increase the Windows disk partition in VMWare.
Increasing the size of the disk partition: Link
Extending partitions in Windows using Diskpart: Link
* Watch the YouTube video on the second link.
How to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows 2000, and in Windows Server [...]
When you are trying to DCPROMO a domain controller as a secondary DC, you received the following error message:
“Failed to modify the necessary properties for the machine account. Access is denied”
Follow the microsoft link below for resolution instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232070
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If you are getting the following Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) when booting up your machine.
Dynamic Linked Library winsrv could not be found in the specified path. Default load Path
This is most likely that your system is having a problem reading the winsrv.dll file or the registry.
You can follow the Microsoft fix to solve this.
Microsoft
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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 [...]
