Task Scheduler Result Codes
A useful little list of the Task Scheduler result codes so you can translate them:0 or 0x0: The operation completed successfully. 1 or 0x1: Incorrect function called or unknown function called. 2 or 0x2: File not found. 10 or 0xa: The environment is incorrect. 0x41300: Task is ready to run…
How to open a Command Prompt
To open the Command Prompt ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted )Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type cmd and hit click the Start Menu and click ‘Run’, in there type cmd and hit Ok or…
How to open Registry editor
To open the Registry editor ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted ) Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type regedit and hit Enter or click the Start Menu and click ‘Run’, in there type regedit and hit…
Add domain to Whitelist in Exchange 2010
This really is something Microsoft missed a trick on, I mean how could they leave a simple whitelist out of the GUI, for shame. That being said I’m going to show you how to do it, they could have made it a lot easier though! First open up the Exchange…
Exchange 2003 to 2010 Routing Group Connector
While doing a migration from Exchange 2003 to 2010 there comes a point where they need to co-exist and route mails between each other. At some point during the Exchange 2010 installation there was an error, sorry I don’t have it to hand unfortunately but basically the connector between the…
Windows Update error 80072EDF or 80070057
While trying to update a new clients server I received the following error code 80072EDF This basically means that the server cannot contact the update server. First I opened a command prompt (Start-Run & type cmd and then open) and ran netsh winhttp reset proxy This will remove the proxy…
Make Windows Shut Down Services Quicker
Here’s a simple little tip to help shut down Windows quicker. Recently I was help speed up a Vista laptop and after all was repaired and cleaned up it still took ages to shut down. This was basically because Windows was waiting for various services to stop. To speed this…
“You must enable rollback to continue with setup” during uninstall
While trying to uninstall a program I received “You must enable rollback to continue setup” Hmm I thought, clicked ok, the following error appeared:Clicked ok, had a think and then rememebered that there is a registry entry which can be changed to enable rollback. Opened Regedit by going to Start…
Symantec System Recovery 2013 – Drive letter not showing in Backup Selections
Ok, so I’ve just installed Symantec System Recovery 2013 on the SBS2011 serve that I’m migrating at the moment. While setting up the backup I found that the C:\ drive wasn’t showing and so I couldn’t select it to be backed up, not much use eh! I found by Shrinking…
Empty / Delete all users Recycle Bins
Here’s a useful little command which helps me clean up the recycle bins on 2008 Terminal Servers:Open up a Command Prompt by either clicking the Start menu then typing cmd into the search box, or the Start menu then Run, type cmd and hit Enter/open. (For Win7, Server 2008, Server…
Access is denied, unable to remove device
I got a call today as a user couldn’t print to a certain network printer which was rolled out via a group ; Because of this the printer cannot be removed in the same way as a local printer due to insufficient get around this and instead of moving the…
Unable to start Hyper-V server – Could not initialize
A little project I was working on was migrating SBS2003 to SBS2011 however I hit a snag in the fact that one of the clients old legacy programs (which I thought was still supported) didn’t run on SBS2011, the developers for the product had gone into administration…great. So rather than…
Cannot find the Source Server – SBS2011 Migration
Ok here's a nice little message I found while migrating from SBS2003 to SBS2011 What a pain…. It looks as though while it's trying to run through the answerfile with the migration details it can't connect to the Source Server. First thing to look at is to look at the…
Enable Access Control List (ACL) Inheritance
During a recent migration from SBS2003 to SBS2011 I received this error: Access Control List (ACL) inheritance is blocked. This is a permission issue in Exchange whereby the permissions need to be able to propagate to the child objects. In my case, to enable this please follow these steps: You're going to…