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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

14 March 2007 | asides, server 2003 | No Comments

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 has been released.

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Live Messenger and Vista

14 March 2007 | asides, live messenger, vista | No Comments

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 [...]

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Creating Windows Server 2003 clusters

13 March 2007 | asides, cluster, server 2003 | No Comments

How can I create a new cluster in Windows Server 2003?

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Event ID 1001 and 3031

12 March 2007 | activesync, exchange 2003 | 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Exchange 2003 OWA and Vista’s Internet Explorer issues

11 March 2007 | internet explorer, owa, vista | No Comments

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 [...]

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Automatic updates using Group Policy

7 March 2007 | asides, group policy, windows, wsus | No Comments

How to configure automatic updates by using Group Policy or registry settings.

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Windows Server Update Services Downloads

6 March 2007 | asides, wsus | No Comments

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.

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Remote refresh group policy

6 March 2007 | group policy, windows | No Comments

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 [...]

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