Two weeks ago today our son, Ethan was born. He’s still in hospital and is doing great, we both can’t wait for him to come home. Hence why it’s been a little quite on the blog of late. Will do my best to keep on blogging during this exciting and scary time.
Category Archive: General
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May 22 2011
Our Son Ethan
On Wednesday 18th May at 7:45am our son, Ethan James came in to the world 8 weeks early and very much to our suprise. He’s doing really well and we can’t wait to have him home.
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May 07 2011
Microsoft’s Future
The fact that Apple has overtaken Microsoft to be a more profitable, I feel is a good thing. If Microsoft becomes second to Google and second to Apple. Doesn’t that allow Microsoft to return to the aggressive company that it was in the early days? Of course the have to do this a competitive and …
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Apr 28 2011
Resolve ARCserve Job Corruption
1. Start > run > cmd {enter} 2. cd c:\program files\ca\Brightstor Arcserve Backup\ {enter} 3. cstop {enter} 4. Start > Run > %BAB_HOME% {enter} 5. Rename the folder 00000001.qsd to OLD_00000001.qsd 6. Switch back to the command Window 7. cstart {enter} Note this deletes the Pruning Job As Well to recreate that 1. Start > …
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Apr 14 2011
Solution to the Windows Exception: "The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship"
I came across this issue today and found this solution. Got this error when logging into a machine that I hadn’t touched in months: "the security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" Not exactly sure why, but changing from a FQDN to a short name resolved …
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Apr 07 2011
Microsoft Forefront
I’ve spent a little time looking at Microsoft Forefront as Microsoft Security Essentials is so good I wanted to know what the “professional” tools brought… The management software has very odd requirements:- Needs to be Windows Server 2008 R2 Not a Domain Controller Configuration Manager 2007 Which is great for enterprise but doesn’t fit …
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Mar 23 2011
Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server not displaying in SBS 2003 RWW
A clients Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server failed. We installed Windows Server 2008 R2 and configured it as a Remote Desktop Server. But it didn’t appear in the RWW as a 2003 Terminal server would have normally. As the image below demonstrates. Thanks to Philip Elder, http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/08/terminal-server-not-showing-up-in.html for the following fix. Which I have posted here …
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Mar 02 2011
Lots of Drives…. or Not. :-)
Does this bug you? In Windows 7, you can turn it of by hitting Alt, Select Tools menu > Folder options…… Ensure “Don’t show hidden files folder or drives” is selected and ensured “Hide empty drives in the Computer folder” is ticked. The empty drives disappear…..
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