Posted in 16 May 2007 ¬ 15:45h.John
It happens enough times. You’re busy reinstalling Windows for someone when you find that you can’t install Windows Updates because the internet connection available is slowly than a milk float delivering breeze blocks instead of milk.
In so far as keeping up-to-date, the issue is no longer “How soon can the updates be installed on the [...]
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Posted in 3 May 2007 ¬ 12:21h.John
I found a useful article about some concepts that might help administrators repair, recover or transfer an Exchange Server.
Not sure if it will help with SBS though…
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Posted in 27 April 2007 ¬ 12:32h.John
Some grief today as I found that Vista wasn’t behaving with user profiles. Whenever a user attempted to logon, he or she would be greeted with the following popup:
Your user profile was not loaded correctly!
You have been logged on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log [...]
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Posted in 26 April 2007 ¬ 14:56h.John
If you happen to have an Intel PRO1000 network card, you may come across the following error when you open up control panel in Windows:
Intel PROset
resources are not available
The problem for me stemmed from repairing an installation of Windows.
With the Intel Pro-network cards, the software that comes bundled with them includes advanced network components that [...]
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Posted in 16 April 2007 ¬ 12:07h.John
After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7.
It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers automatically [...]
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Posted in 9 April 2007 ¬ 23:48h.John
When dropping Windows Vista into an existing network, you may notice some unusual issues that weren’t apparent in Windows 2000 or Windows XP. One such setting, is the disappearance of the Start Menu folders. John goes on a quest to track them down…
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