When things go wrong..........working at the weekend- January 27, 2008 It's been a very long weekend. I've been trying to do a migration from nt4 and exchange 5.5 up to Windows 2003 64bit, Active Directory and Exchange2007 and although I succeeded there have been several large hiccups along the way. More details in the extended entry as it will get technical!http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009247.php A whole podcast just for me!- January 22, 2008 A couple of admins posted for questions for some future interviews that they had in the pipeline so I sent in an email about scripting. I'm currently proficient in batch file scripting but really struggled with Powershell scripting which is unfortunate as it looks like this is where admin scripting is going in 2008 with Windows 2008 and Exchange2007. So Steve kindly produced a 10 minute podcast that answered my questions about getting started in Powershell and that was all that was in it - a...http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009240.php Photography workflow.- January 18, 2008 I think my daily picture taking process should get a bit easier now. Up until now I've been ejecting the compact flash, SD or XD card from the camera and then putting it in the card reader. However tonight I plugged the Canon into the usb cable and saw it come up as a mobile device in Windows Explorer. By right clicking on the device and choosing properties I was then able to select an action on inserting the camera. One of the options is to copy the pictures to a specified directory on the...http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009239.php Blackberry 8703e reboots still continue- January 17, 2008 Our blackberry reboots continue to happen (although now that I'm on a 8830 my problem has stopped). In the Blackberry forums there was someone else who had the exact same issue that we did - I thought the person was actually someone else in my company! RIM and Sprint are currently looking at the issue as I blog. The funny thing is that two of the devices have actually rebooted whilst we have been on the phone wiith RIM and Sprint. Update After 45 minutes on hold whilst the Sprint rep spoke to..http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009237.php Group Shot expired- January 17, 2008 I was going to use the Microsoft Group Shot software this evening for some editing on a photo but the software has expired and Microsoft haven't posted a new version online - a real shame as how am I going to do my clone shots now Update It turns out that setting your clock back to September 2006 gets this working again -http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009235.php Taxcut Premium, Federal,State and Efile for $20- January 14, 2008 Thanks to the Fatwallet forums, you can get Taxcut Premium, Federal and State and EFile for $29.99 with a $10 in store check. You can order this online at OfficeDepot and when you select in-store pickup the price drops to $29.99 - the rebate form is here. Unfortunately our nearest officedepot closed at the new year and the next nearest is 30miles away....now Staples price match so........ not sure if they will honour this one - ymmv -Update Staples wouldn't price match for me in Columbus Ohio.http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009231.php WSUS unable to delete log file.- January 13, 2008 One of my WSUS boxes had a log file in the C:Program FilesUpdate ServicesLogFiles directory that was 60MB big - normally these are deleted by WSUS itself, with a backup copy of the previous log kept as SoftwareDistribution.log.old. However the permissions on the folder were set such that Network Service (which WSUS runs under) did not have permissions to create new files in the directory. As it could not create files, it was unable to move the existing file to .old and create a new logfile to...http://www.absoblogginlutely.net/mtblogarchive/009230.php |