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…
Stop a running process from command prompt
A user kindly clicked on one of those nice fake Anti Virus Pro links today, and surprise surprise he then couldn’t run any programs, Outlook, Task manager, msconfig ; Excellent! So I had to look to finding the little process, stop it and then remove it. Luckily I was able…
Register dll in Windows 7 (64bit)
Afternoon all, I’ve been installing a 3rd party product which requires a dll registered in windows. Normally I’d move the file to c:\windows\system32 and then run regsvr32 ‘filename’ and all would be well, not so in Windows 7 64bit, I receive this error:So quick and simple, you need to move…
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…
Windows 7 activation failed on HP machine
Activation failed on one of my clients HP Desktops, it had been activated during the initial install and had been ok for months. I can only assume that a Windows update or something similar had caused ’s a few handy commands to help you reactive Windows on your a command…
“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…
Exchange System Manager – Public Folders Error ID no: 80090328 – Solution 2
As with my previous post (HERE), here is another method of how to resolve this error be renewing the certificate which is causing this error. The easiest place to get this done it to run through the Connect to the Internet Server Management and click on To Do List on…
Exchange System Manager – Public Folders Error ID no: 80090328 – Solution 1
During a migration from SBS2003 to SBS2011 you’ll probably come to a point where you’ll want to migrate the Public Folder store to the new server. While doing this, when clicking on Public Folders I received the following error:’The received certificate has expired.’ ‘ID no: 800903328'This is purely because the…
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…
Liveupdate was unable to find any products
Even running a simple Symantec Live update can have issues! Bloody computers, anyway, when doing some simple maintenance and I receive this error: "LU1805: Liveupdate was unable to find any products to update". There are no products on this computer that can be updated by ; ---- ( ahem! I…