# Thursday, 15 January 2009

Exchange 2003 IMAP4

Certain users cannot login although domain usernames and passwords are correct. Error message:

* NO Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password

Resolution: check user's mailbox name (alias) is the same as their account name.

Thursday, 15 January 2009 18:17:15 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Will cause problems such as negative ping times and USERENV errors.

Add /usepmtimer to boot.ini

 

Tuesday, 13 January 2009 22:26:45 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Friday, 05 December 2008

Maybe error indexing an Outlook item?

net stop wsearch (might have to set service to "Disabled")

Regedit -> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search

Give self Full Control -> "SetupCompletedSuccessfully" change to "0"

For each of following keys, give self Full Control and Take Ownership (& propogate), then delete

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Applications\windows
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\CatalogNames\windows
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Databases\windows
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather\windows
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager\Applications\windows
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\UsnNotifier\windows

rd %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows /S /Q

Set Windows Search to "Automatic"

net start wsearch

Check "SetupCompletedSuccessfully" now has value "1"

 

Friday, 05 December 2008 15:06:16 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Tuesday, 04 November 2008

SBS (and WHS?) if not dcpromo'd will, after seven days, shut down every hour.  The process sbscrexe.exe is created by the SBCore service.  If terminated it will immediately restart and it cannot be stopped.  The service SBCore cannot be set to "disabled".

There are two (three?) ways to work around this.  All will likely violate the MS EULA.

• Use Process Explorer to 'suspend' sbscrexe.exe
• Give Administrators permissions to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SBCore (and child nodes) and change the 'Start' DWORD from 2 to 4
• Deny the Everyone group all access to C:\WINDOWS\system32\sbscrexe.exe
• In Process Explorer kill sbscrexe.exe - it shouldn't restart
• services.msc should now show SBS Core Services as disabled

• An alternative approach is to disable the 'SBS Core Services' service in a particular hardware profile (ie can't do a outright disable) assuming there is only one hardware profile.

• Finally, repeated kills of the sbscrexe.exe process might completely kill it for a single session.

Edit - having an ntbackup process running in the background seems to stop sbcore from shutting down.
   

 

whs | sbs
Tuesday, 04 November 2008 19:06:44 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Friday, 31 October 2008

Won't run from Control Panel in Vista (x64).  System has quiet UAC prompts via GPO/gpedit.

Solution is to "run as administrator"; or WinKey -> wercon -> Ctrl-Shift-Enter

 

Friday, 31 October 2008 08:27:53 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Thursday, 30 October 2008

In Vista x64 after a while crashes, then won't (ever) scan more than two pages without crashing.

Seems disabling OCR in the scan profile gets around this (or creating a new OCR-less profile).#

Thursday, 30 October 2008 19:27:39 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Wednesday, 29 October 2008
:: Fixes problem with client machines not showing up on the server due to imaging method

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v AccountDomainSid /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v PingID /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate /v SusClientIDValidation /f
cls
@echo Triggering detection after resetting WSUS client identity
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

See: http://www.wsuswiki.com/ClientFAQ and http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B903262&x=13&y=11

(AccountDomainSid and PingID weren't listed) SusClientIDValidation is new to WSUS v3.

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 16:54:23 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback

One or more of the following:

  1. In adapter's TCP/IP DNS properties untick "register in DNS"
  2. Stop DNS server listening on IP of adapter
  3. Add the following DWORD = 1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\<Interface name>\DisableDynamicUpdate

 

2003 | 2008
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:29:19 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback

At install service accounts (RTCSservice, RTCComponentService) are created.

After a few weeks address book synchronisation began failing and after a restart all OCS services refused to start.

Appears service accounts' passwords had expired by a GPO.  Simply setting password to never expire allowed the services to start.  Address book sync problems needed the LSGroupExpAppPool application pool to be manually started.

 

ocs
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 13:18:42 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
# Monday, 27 October 2008

Use launchapp

vista | 2008
Monday, 27 October 2008 18:38:46 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback