Removing corrupt Volume Shadow Copies VSS
Howdy all, here’s a nice little one for you and a nice little space gainer. One of my clients servers was running low on space so I checked the Shadow Copies. While are good and do have their uses, if they’re not configure correctly or cleared once in a while…
Hidden folder – Greyed out attribute
Simple little one this for some reason a clients main Data folder was Hidden, no idea why but some people were obviously complaining that they couldn’t see the folder. Looking at the folder properties the “Hidden” attribute was greyed out. Because of this we need to change it using a…
Restore Default Domain Group Policy
Ah isn’t replication fun fun fun. While overcoming a replication issue the Group Policy Objects got corrupted, fortunately there were only a few which could be created again easily but you can’t delete the “Default Domain Policy” nor the “Default Domain Controller Policy”. In order to restore these you can…
Windows Backup EFI System Partition error
While adding some additional Disks to a Windows Server Backup (SBS2008) one of the new Western Digital disks came with an EFI System Partition, which as it turned out Windows backup isn’t a fan of. Naturally I thought ok a quick format will sort that out but as you know…
Add disks to Windows Server Backup
Ok so following on from setting up Windows Server Backup with multiple Disks Now, on this occasion for what ever reason I didn’t get all the disks added, needed to include another one into the backup but wasn’t onsite and to top things off the previous disk wasn’t available, if…
Windows Server Backup to multiple disks
After a mammoth task of going through various customers backups I’ve concluded that the Windows Server Backup included in Windows Server 2008 onwards is actually pretty good. Ok so it’s a little limited in features but if you’re looking for a complete backup of your server then this tends to…
Exchange 2010 self signed certificate
How to Use a Self Signed Certificate in Exchange 2010It seems to be certificate month here at the moment. I’ve had to setup a self signed certificate for a company so they can connect via SSL to both Outlook Web Access and Exchange 2010 using Outlook (2007/2010)Something you should be…
Large IIS log files
Here’s a nice little tip to shrink or keep control of your IIS log files. While looking at a space issue on a server recently I noticed that their W3SVC3 (this might be different W3SVC1) log files were about 4-5Gb in size and contained thousands of log files. In order…