Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 has been released.
Posts from ‘March, 2007’
Live Messenger and Vista
It turns out that Windows Vista and Live Messenger don’t play well together. The culprit seems to be Adobe Flash. Even after the suggested fix, it still has the possibility of crashing. UPDATE: After searching around some more online, I came across this fix for Acer laptops. A setting in their security management software was [...]
Creating Windows Server 2003 clusters
How can I create a new cluster in Windows Server 2003?
Event ID 1001 and 3031
A couple of weeks ago, we had an issue where the Pocket PC phones were not syncing with the exchange server. I started to peruse through the logs and noticed that event id’s 1001 and 3031 were appearing quite frequently. After searching around, I came across KB 817379 for event id 3031 and KB 832297 [...]
Exchange 2003 OWA and Vista’s Internet Explorer issues
We recently acquired a Microsoft Vista machine to aid us in testing its compatibility with our software. As we started to test a few things, we noticed that we had an issue with OWA; when replying to a message, we’d get what looked like a broken image in the area where you would type your [...]
Automatic updates using Group Policy
How to configure automatic updates by using Group Policy or registry settings.
Windows Server Update Services Downloads
Windows Server Update Services Downloads offers some good utilities to aid in deploying WSUS to your network. I used Client Diagnostic Tool quite frequently to make sure that the clients were pointing to the internal update server instead of Windows Update.
Remote refresh group policy
Over the weekend, we implemented some needed changes to the GPO that would force the clients to use the WSUS server instead of checking Windows Update. After we made the changes, we needed to refresh the policy on each of the clent machines. Being a lazy admin, I didn’t want to go to each machine [...]