Posts Tagged ‘Windows 2000’

Enabling Group Favourites on a Network

One of the tricky things about managing Favourites for users on a network is that it’s a nightmare to easily deal with the varied requirements of users.
Generally, you would set up favourites on a Windows network to do one of the following:

Leave them as they are. Users can add and remove their own favourite websites
Redirect [...]

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Office 2007 Deployment Computer Startup Scripts

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings.
It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment.
You have four options:

Install it on a PC manually (not great)
Deploy through group policy with no customisations
Use a deployment system such as SMS
Use a [...]

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Active Directory Recovery Guide

I’ve been having numerous errors in the event log appearing on one of my servers from the ESENT service:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESENT
Event Category: Database Corruption
Event ID: 467
Date: 18/05/2007
Time: 09:33:06
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER123
Description:
ntfrs (5660) Index GChangeOrderGuid of table OUTLOGTable00002 is corrupted (0).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

These errors are appearing regularly, and contain various tables with problems.
After scouring eventid.net and [...]

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Offline Windows Updates for the IT Tech with no Broadband

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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Exchange Server Recovery Concepts

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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Dual booting causes clocks to go mental!

John ponders why he’s always going to bed an hour late when he dual boots between Windows and Linux, and tries to switch Windows to use UTC time.

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