Microsoft has released Service Pack 3 for Office 2003. KB923618 lists what changes were made in this service pack along with issues that may arise as a result of installing it.
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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 the culprit in my case.
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 for event id 1001.
After checking the security settings on the directories in IIS, I noticed that the back-end exchange server’s Exchange directory in IIS had the option for Integrated Windows Authentication unchecked. How it got unchecked, we have no idea. We hadn’t made any changes at all to either the front-end or back-end exchange server that day, so we were puzzled as to how this happened.
To fix this issue, we checked the option for Integrated Windows Authentication (see image below) on the Exchange directory in IIS on the back-end server and restarted both the servers. After they came back up, everything was back to normal.
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 message (see image below). After a little searching around, we found out that Internet Explorer in Vista strips out the Dynamic HTML Editing ActiveX control (KB 911829). Microsoft released a patch for this particular issue for Exchange.
NOTE: The patch must be applied on both the frontend and backend Exchange servers.
Below is a screenshot of the window before the patch is applied.
And a screenshot of the window after the patch is applied.
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.
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 to refresh the policy. After a little searching on the web, I came across a command-line utility called RGPRefresh. This tool will help you refresh the group policies remotely. I tested it on a couple of machines, and it worked flawlessly.
Below is a screen shot of the switches that you can use with the utility.
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