Category Archive: Annoying

Sep 03 2011

No Windows Home Server 2011

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This is a real shame, that Home Server isn’t coming to the action pack this year like it did last year.    I think I won’t purchase it next year and go for TechNet instead.

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Sep 01 2011

Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

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I’m sure this site has existed for sometime.  It would nice to see this at 0%.  So if you have IE6 installed, there really is no reason these days…. lets kill it once and for all.  Click image to go to the site.

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Jul 25 2011

Google+ Not for business

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  So their has been a lot in the tech press or the so called blogosphere about Google+ not supporting business.  From what I can can work out if you use Google apps account you are considered a business. Google seems to have forgotten that they allow individuals to sign up to Google apps, so …

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Apr 28 2011

Resolve ARCserve Job Corruption

1. Start > run > cmd {enter} 2. cd c:\program files\ca\Brightstor Arcserve Backup\ {enter} 3. cstop {enter} 4. Start > Run > %BAB_HOME% {enter} 5. Rename the folder 00000001.qsd to OLD_00000001.qsd 6. Switch back to the command Window 7. cstart {enter} Note this deletes the Pruning Job As Well to recreate that 1. Start > …

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Apr 14 2011

Solution to the Windows Exception: "The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship"

I came across this issue today and found this solution.  Got this error when logging into a machine that I hadn’t touched in months: "the security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" Not exactly sure why, but changing from a FQDN to a short name resolved …

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Feb 25 2011

The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol.

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Kept receiving this error trying to connect to Windows Server 2008 R2 – Remote Desktop Server. After using RD Web Access page. The solution was to right click on the RDP client and run as Admin which ensures that it can update the registry, you only have to do this once and then from there …

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Sep 14 2010

Exchange 2007 SP1 – Can’t send/receive emails

So your Exchange Server has been running fine for months and all of a sudden it doesn’t want to send or receive external emails. All else seems OK, the stores are mounted, you can telnet in externally, you can telnet externally. You could be running into an issue with E2007 once the C:\ drive get …

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Aug 31 2010

Spaces – We want Spaces!

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We recently purchase some D-Link DWL 8500 AP and upon configuring them we discovered that these units don’t allow you to enter a Shared key with spaces. After reading thru the manual, it states that you can!  So we tried this via the command line and it doesn’t work.   We have logged the issue …

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