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…
PDF not opening in Internet Explorer
Hello there, Ok I just had a call where pdf file wouldn’t open in Internet Explorer, in this case it was version 10. All they would get would be an X in the top left corner. It all worked fine in Firefox and Chrome. PDF not working in Internet Explorer…
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…
JRNL_WRAP_ERROR Event 13568
Following on from my nightmare weekend of having to restore Active Directory, in doing so I had to demote one of the Domain Controllers as it was causing all sorts of Active directory errors. This also simplifies were problems are occurring rather than worrying about replication and such things. After…
SQL SBSMonitoring High Disk Usage
Ok so I’ve done my fair share of SBS migrations in my time and there’s one thing which has been bugging me for a while and that was the massively high disk usage that comes with the SQL SBSMONITORING instance on SBS2008 and SBS2011. It eats up disk usage like…
Exchange OWA Blank Page
Well what a fun weekend I’ve had! After a nice Journal Wrap error on two Domain Controllers, Active Directory and DNS got completely corrupted (or screwed up as the professional term goes). Anyway to cut a long story short, I managed to resolve the AD and DNS issues and got…
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…