http://www.petenetlive.com RSS Web Feed for PeteNetLive - The Home Of Free Tech Support and Tutorials Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:17:17 GMT Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:17:17 GMT If you cannot get access to your router, or you have bought, found or been given one, and you cannot access it. The simplest thing to do it to reset to to factory settings. Once the Router has been reset its settings will be as follows, Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:56:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000574.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000574.htm I got this when backing up to an HP RDX removable disk backup system. The drive WAS formatted as NTFS, but the job failed. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:44:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000573.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000573.htm You need to access a Cisco ASA device and do not have the passwords, there can be lots of reasons for this, lack of good documentation, bought a second hand firewall, the last firewall admin never told anyone etc. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000572.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000572.htm If you want to use the native Windows VPN client you can still use L2TP over IPSEC. I had a look around the net to work out how to do this and most decent articles are written using the older versions of the ASDM, and the CLI information I found on Cisco's site didn't help either. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000571.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000571.htm Unless your machine is 'very old' this is just a quick trip to the BIOS. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:23:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000570.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000570.htm Normally I simply connect a new MSA to a clients network, and it gets it's address from DHCP. Then I can get the address for the DHCP Scope, and point my web browser at it. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000569.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000569.htm You have a Draytek router (In my case a 2800 ADSL 2/2+), and you want to update the firmware to the latest version. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000568.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000568.htm Simply purchasing a domain name is not enough to get email flowing in your direction, and people onto your website. you also need your DNS Records to point to your IP address(s) as well. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000567.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000567.htm I've finally got round to updating this for Outlook 2010. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000186.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000186.htm I had some licencing issues a couple of weeks ago with Office 2010, and needed to check my version and licence details, thankfully Office 2010 comes with a VB script that makes this easy. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:15:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000566.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000566.htm To be fair Microsoft recommend that you DO NOT install Exchange on a domain controller. Not only does it cause quite a performance hit on the server, but because of the way services are stopped on the server at shutdown time, the Exchange services take AGES to stop (In fact they end up timing out). Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000565.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000565.htm When Microsoft released Windows Vista and Server 2008 they had the brilliant Idea of putting all the versions you would require in the same install media. With Windows 7 they have changed their approach, and the install media is specific to the version that is going to be installed. Well actually that's not true the version is decided by a file in the installation media called ei.cfg and all versions are STILL in there. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:05:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000164.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000164.htm Playing an MKV file is one problem, getting them to be displayed in Media Center is another. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:17:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000564.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000564.htm A PNL visitor (Jason K. Roberts) found out he could still log in with an old password, he later found out this was normal. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:17:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000437.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000437.htm Be aware, all ASA devices running an operating system of 8.4(2) or newer, you can NO LONGER LOG IN WITH A USERNAME OF PIX, and the telnet password, you HAVE TO define a username and password, then enable AAA Authentication for SSH. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000173.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000173.htm For a company that prides itself on image, and employs people just to work out their products "Unboxing Experience". You would think that they could come up with a piece of software that wasn't complete and utter tripe! But unfortunately we are stuck with iTunes. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:39:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000563.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000563.htm I've not touched OVF Files since VMware VI3, and as I had to do some work on one of my companies SAN's today, and my colleagues VM was sat in there, I though I'd use OVF to temporarily backup the Virtual Machine, then after I'd finished messing about with the SAN. I used the OVF file to restore the machine back again. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:19:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000562.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000562.htm A distribution group is an active directory group, that has a shared email address. A security group can also have an email address, but unlike a distribution group a security group can be granted permissions to objects e.g. public folders, calendars etc. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:39:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000561.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000561.htm After renaming (because you didn't want to lose the profile) or deleting a user profile, from the "users" directory. You will see the following error when you attempt to log on as the deleted user; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:35:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000033.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000033.htm This has been a known problem since Exchange 2007, essentially there's an active directory attribute called "msExchRecipientDisplayType" that does not get changed properly when you convert the group using the GUI interface. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000560.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000560.htm This is normal, 2008 R2 introduced a more secure DNS Management authentication system to prevent "Man in the middle DNS attacks" that had been exploited in earlier versions of Windows. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:18:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000559.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000559.htm Common sense dictates, make sure you actually have internet connectivity first! Essentially this is caused because the AnyConnect client wants to connect to the 'Name' of your gateway not its IP address, often this can be an 'Odd' name allocated by your ISP, if you do not have a registered DNS name that you use. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000558.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000558.htm I tried to access a Cisco AnyConnect portal with my iPhone today, and was greeted with the following. 'Cookies must be enabled to log in'. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000557.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000557.htm Windows 7 / 2008 R2 like previous versions of Windows, caches your user names and passwords entered for network shares, drives etc. That's fine until there's an incorrect password or username in the cache, and you want to remove it. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000556.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000556.htm If someone is logged into the machine and you connect in, it simply kicks them out to the login page. This was never a problem for me until I set up a tiny Acer Revo PC behind my TV to use as a media server. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:05:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000554.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000554.htm I was creating some "Bookmarks" on a client's AnyConnect web portal last week. They were simply CIFS links to shared folders on his servers so he could access them remotely from his Android tablet PC's. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:04:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000555.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000555.htm I've split this article away from the 8.3 one, as it tripped me up this week again, so I think it deserves an article of its own. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:52:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000553.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000553.htm There are lots of reasons you might want to know your PC/Servers uptime, to make sure a client has rebooted a server (like you asked them to), or to see if a server has had a BSOD and rebooted overnight, etc. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000552.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000552.htm Since IOS version 5 you have been able to sync via wireless Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:20:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000551.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000551.htm Since IOS version 5 you have been able to sync via wireless Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:02:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000550.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000550.htm It's enabled by default, but what if you need to change/disable it? Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:48:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000549.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000549.htm Fired up one of my test machines this morning, and opened Outlook to see this error. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000548.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000548.htm Someone following one of my migration guides hit this today Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:44:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000547.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000547.htm If you connect to to a client via RDP then try and run the AnyConnect client you will see this error. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000546.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000546.htm What ports do you need to open, and how do you open them? Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:07:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000545.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000545.htm I will probably have a ton of these to do next year! The following process runs right through the entire migration process of vCenter, the ESX/ESXi hosts, The Datastores, The VM Tools, VMHardware, and finally re licencing everything with your new vSphere 5 keys. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:16:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000543.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000543.htm This method provides failover to a redundant ISP link should your primary network connection go down. IT IS NOT going to load balance the traffic across both interfaces. In this example I've also got a VPN to a remote site and some port forwarding to contend with as well. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:54:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000544.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000544.htm What happens if you have a particular server or machine that you want to let use your Exchange server as a relay? e.g. a Linux server that sends mail, or a SQL server running SQLMail? Then you need to allow relaying from either that IP address, or the network it's on. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:43:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000542.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000542.htm This was asked on EE the other day, and I've been asked it before, so I put it on my list of "Articles to write up". Windows by default will display all "Enabled" accounts on the welcome screen. In most cases that's fine, but the poster had installed SQL and all the service accounts were listed. Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000541.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000541.htm Took me a while to revisit this and update it - sorry Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:43:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000299.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000299.htm While trying to whitebox an ESX environment I came across this problem, Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:09:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000540.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000540.htm Connecting your Android device to a Cisco Device running AnyConnect. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:56:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000539.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000539.htm A command line run through of backing up, and restoring your router from backup configs. Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:48:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000538.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000538.htm Configured or not, if you don't have the license, you're not getting in! Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:04:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000537.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000537.htm Cisco ASA ESMTP filtering causes this, here's how to disable that feature, Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000536.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000536.htm Bah! Put web enrolment in the right place you crazy SBS types! Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:09:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000535.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000535.htm Nearly every time there's a DNS problem lurking behind the scenes. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:39:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000534.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000534.htm If you have a server or host that you want to be publicly addressable and only have one public IP address then port forwarding is what you require. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:03:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000533.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000533.htm A bug with IE9 causes thie problem, M$ have released a hotfix. Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:53:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000478.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000478.htm Updated for Ubuntu 11.10 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:24:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000378.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000378.htm A while back I did a job for a school, many weeks later their users have had to change their passwords. Nothing strange there, the problem is now their teachers DONT want to have their passwords changing at all. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:54:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000532.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000532.htm How to upgrade your ASA, or add/upgrade an existing feature. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:04:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000531.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000531.htm Odd error that bit me while i was trying to repair an Exchange Database Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:16:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000530.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000530.htm Saw this on a brand new installation on my test bench, I left it overnight and the problem still did not resolve. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000529.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000529.htm Seen on Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007, is caused by using a self signed certificate or a purchased certificate, where the internal and external names are different. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000036.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000036.htm RemoteApp is a solution for delivering applications to your users from a Remote Desktop Services Server. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:20:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000528.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000528.htm I was trying to hot add some memory to a VM the other day, and found the option grayed out. Normally I'd just down the VM, add the memory, then bring it back up. But it was a production server and I was pretty sure the OS (Server 2008 R2 Standard) supported it. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:56:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000527.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000527.htm I tried to logon to my vCenter this afternoon (Server 2008 R2) and could not get on, I connected to the server to find it was up but the "VMware VirtualCenter Server" service was not running. So I tried to start it and got the following error, Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:56:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000526.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000526.htm Today, I am pleased to say we have the work of guest poster Hesan Javed, who runs through an Exchange 2007 CCR to Exchange 2010 HA Migration. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:53:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000525.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000525.htm There are a number of reasons for doing this i.e. You want the "Javascript Error Alert" back that's removed in IE9, or your business line CRM wont render in IE9 and setting a GPO to run it in "Compatibility View with IE7 Standards"* does not fix the problem. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:15:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000524.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000524.htm A couple of months back I put in a 2008 Terminal Services Server, or Remote Desktop Services as it's now called. I installed the Licensing server and successfully added in the licences the client had purchased, but a while later he rang to say he was having licensing issues. Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:18:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000523.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000523.htm I had a problem doing this with a Windows 7 machine the other week. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000177.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000177.htm A few weeks ago my boss asked me to take a look at Microsoft Lync. Because he was interested in the Lync Client (formally Microsoft Communicator) for instant messaging. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000522.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000522.htm With modern PC's, the boot time is a LOT less than it used to be. There was a time when you would have a few seconds to press F8 when a Windows machine started, and you could boot to "safe mode". Now even with the reflexes of a fighter pilot, you are hard pushed to press the key before it says "Starting Windows". Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:30:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000521.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000521.htm A know problem that just needs some security group additions to fix. Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:04:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000520.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000520.htm What used to be a fiddly job, is now very simple to do, setting up Outlook Anywhere (formally known at RPC over HTTP) takes about 10 minutes. Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000519.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000519.htm I'm more used to seeing this problem on Exchange server to be honest, it happens because of a system called the AdminSDHolder Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:31:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000518.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000518.htm Firefox 7 came out today (Download Firefox 7), and the new version has decided to shorten the URL displayed in your address bar, to put it back to its old style you need to change a setting. Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:43:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000517.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000517.htm Usually after an Exchange Migration you have some spaces - or nasty characters in your Alias names. Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000516.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000516.htm Was taken away with ESX 4.1, but there are a few ways to turn it back on. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000515.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000515.htm Yes it is simple, but I was still asked this today! Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:57:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000514.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000514.htm Microsoft already have a published fix! A quick command and a reboot, and you are good to go. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:31:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000513.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000513.htm I've not set up a router in ages, so this was a fun afternoon Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:41:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000512.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000512.htm This is applicable to running the Windows 8 Developer Preview in VMware Workstation. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:37:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000511.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000511.htm Yes these days we would prefer to use GPO or GPP to do this, but some printers simply refuse to be farmed out this way, and a lot of clients don't want to install their network printers in that manner. Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000510.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000510.htm I recently upgraded to VMware Workstation 8, I was going to have a play with the Windows 8 developer preview, and needed to get my VM to boot from CD. After Hammering F1, F2, F10 and the delete keys. I admitted defeat and looked for the boot into BIOS setting that I'm sure used to be there! Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000509.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000509.htm Not what you want your users to see if you're sending printers out by policy or script. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:40:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000508.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000508.htm I got asked how to do this today, a client has a number of roaming users (teachers) who don't like waiting for Outlook to create a local copy of the mailbox each time they log on. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:15:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000507.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000507.htm Took me ages to re-visit this subject. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000069.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000069.htm Thought I'd have a play with Windows 8, VMware had other ideas. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:57:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000506.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000506.htm You are seeing this because you have installed a Sage accounting product in the past and it dropped some add-ins into Excel. Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000505.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000505.htm For all you fans of the ASDM, I've added that way as well. Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000076.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000076.htm Put simply, just like you have a password for your user account, the computer you log onto also has a password (you just never see it), it gets reset (by default) every thirty days, and all this runs in the background. For a lot of different reasons the computer password has got "Out of Sync" between the computer and the domain controller. Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:46:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000504.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000504.htm This is a two part operation, firstly you need to give the user(s) the rights to change passwords, then give them the tools to do so. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000503.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000503.htm This weekend I needed to install Windows 7 on my shiny new Acer HTPC, but having no internal CD/DVD drive I needed to do this via USB. Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:39:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000191.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000191.htm I was trying to do some online VMware training today, and this was really annoying me, every link I clicked up it came. Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:35:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000502.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000502.htm Problem on an HP ML115 server, while trying to boot from a USB Drive. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000501.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000501.htm Luckily this was on a test box so I was somewhat more cavalier in my attitude than if I'd been on a clients production network, It goes without saying that you should not be proceeding with an upgrade without a good backup of your production VM's anyway. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:27:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000500.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000500.htm I'm surprised that when you make a server a Terminal Services Server / Remote Desktop Services Server, that this does not get applied from an administrative template anyway, but it does not. Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:15:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000499.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000499.htm This is not a task I've had to do for ages, so when I had to do it this week, I thought I'd just do a quick Google search as a refresher. What I can remember was a simple task took me far too long to work out. So heres a quick solution for everybody else. Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:14:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000498.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000498.htm I did some bulk user imports for a client this week, and then needed to set all the passwords on these accounts. Seeing as it was a school, and each year group was in it's own OU in Active Directory, I needed a way to "Bulk Reset" the passwords. Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:09:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000497.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000497.htm I had a pile of these to do last week. The title is a bit of a misnomer, we are not going to recover the password, we are simply going to change the password to one we know. Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:47:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000496.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000496.htm I was surprised this week when I went to fit one of these switches, I know HP bought 3Com some time ago but when I popped open the HP box I did not expect to see a 3Com switch. Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:27:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000495.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000495.htm During a large rollout the more things you can automate the better, before you continue though be aware of one thing... You can only automatically join a client to a domain if it has an auto generated random machine name! Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:02:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000494.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000494.htm After a recent Exchange failure at work we had to rebuild our mail databases and import our old mail. All was fine except Outlook had lost its categories, now you can do tons of things with categories, but for the most part I just use them for colour coding my diary entries and for colour flagging emails. Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:35:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000493.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000493.htm I've touched on this briefly in KB0000389, I suggest you read through that first so you understand what the requirements are to deploy a GPP instead of the GPO's you are probably used to. Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:46:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000492.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000492.htm Trend Worry Free is a nice product, though to deploy the client out to your machines you need them to be switched on, have the firewalls off, and the remote registry service running. You can of course connect the clients to the web portal and install the client on a machine by machine basis, (default https://servername:4343). But if you are rolling out a lot of machines this can get tedious. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:17:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000491.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000491.htm Over the last couple of years I've done a lot of imaging of School PC's I don't know why but they come with a myriad of different drive and partition configurations. Even big vendors like HP and Dell ship their machines with recovery partitions these days. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000490.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000490.htm While attempting tom move an Exchange mailbox the move fails and the details of the movement request tell you, Error: This mailbox exceeded the maximum number of corrupted items that were specified for this move request. Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000489.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000489.htm I was rolling out Trend Worry Free Business Security this week, and to send out the client software all the client machines needed the remote registry service enabled. That's great but it's set to manual startup be default. Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000488.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000488.htm Saw this last week, while trying to use an unattended file for the roll out of some machines with WDS. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000487.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000487.htm You have an HP HP E-Series Mobility E-MSM460, 466 or 430 Access Point, and you cannot access resources on your local LAN (though internet access works fine). Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:40:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000486.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000486.htm Seen when using WDS on Windows Server 2008 (and 2008 R2). When attrempting to PXE boot a client machine, is sucessfully gets an IP address. But it times out at the TFTP stage. Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:02:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000485.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000485.htm Seen on Exchange 2010 (with or without service packs) when you access the internet through a proxy server. Note: Exchange does NOT take its proxy settings from Internet Explorer. Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000484.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000484.htm I like Google+ it's clean and free of junk. There are no annoying applications, and unlike Facebook (which gets thousands of pieces of Malware a day posted to it), It's gaining new users at an alarming rate. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:47:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000483.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000483.htm Importing and adding friends into your "Circles" is easy if you use Gmail, however if your contacts are in Microsoft Outlook then they wont get picked up automatically. Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000482.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000482.htm A user in Active Directory has a certificate that's expired. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000481.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000481.htm This is an instruction to raise the logging level, so you can actually find out what's wrong. Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:01:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000480.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000480.htm A problem my colleague had last week, vCenters database hits 4GB then falls over. Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:56:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000479.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000479.htm In the end it turned out to be a simple IIS problem, still had me beat for a long time though Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:53:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000477.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000477.htm UPDATED - Added a bit more to this article, and made it flow a little better. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:30:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000239.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000239.htm Everytime I work on a new model, it takes me five minutes to work out where these things go! Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:11:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000476.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000476.htm UPDATED - After a few hiccups this week, I've re-written this article. Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:41:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000236.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000236.htm Seen when attempting to install Service Pack 3 on Exchange 2007. On a server that's also running Symantec Backup Exec. Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000475.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000475.htm You have an Apple device and you would like to create a remote VPN connection to a Cisco device running AnyConnect. Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:17:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000474.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000474.htm While using the Apple/Cisco Anyconnect App/Client you receive the following error, 'The following message was received from the security gateway: No License.' Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000362.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000362.htm If while attempting to add drivers, the option to "Add Driver Packages to Image" is grayed out. Then you may need to update your boot images from Server 2008/Vista images to 2008 R2/Windows 7 Images. (or from version 6.0.6000 to 6.1.7600). Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:55:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000314.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000314.htm In my case I had an Exchange server that was using a certificate that had been "self signed". And the Root CA that signed the certificate had been ungracefully removed from the domain. Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:35:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000473.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000473.htm A few weeks back I wrote about a client who was having problems with kids at his school launching the ease of access button from the login screen. And how I disabled the ease of access button. After a site visit it seems that the "little darlings" had now worked out that by pressing "Alt+Shift+Print Screen" they could turn on high contrast. And this, which is obviously hilarious (once again), and annoying for their teachers, needs disabling. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:05:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000472.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000472.htm Server 2008 unlike its predecessors, comes with the multiple remote desktop session restriction enabled. If you are only connecting to a server for remote administration purposes that can get a bit annoying, especially if you have a generic administrative account that multiple techs are using, and you keep kicking each other off the server. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:41:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000471.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000471.htm In older versions of Exchange, we just had to "Purge" disconnected mailboxes, now we don't have that option. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:47:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000470.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000470.htm Yesterday a client asked me how he could find out, which of his users were the "worst offenders" for mailbox size. Normally a simple Get-MailboxStatistics command would be fine, and we would sort the results in descending order. But this client had multiple mailbox servers and multiple data stores. Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:44:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000469.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000469.htm A Problem with an Exchange 2010 Catalog Data folder? Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:40:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000468.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000468.htm Essentially you can take folders folders that hold stuff like your "My documents" or your "Favorites" folder, and put them out on a network server, that's great if you want to back that sort of information up for disaster recovery. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:27:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000467.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000467.htm This morning my boss asked me "Why every time I open Internet Explorer does it ask me this?" To which I replied, "I use Chrome so I don't know, But I'll find out." Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:52:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000466.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000466.htm Out of the box, the default power option presented to your users is shutdown. People with multiple users on their machines, may prefer the log off option to be the default. Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:45:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000465.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000465.htm What used to be the simplest task, has now been overly complicated (Thanks Microsoft!) Simply deploying from a single .msi file would have been far too easy! This procedure uses group policy to install Microsoft Office 2010 via group policy. It uses the Microsoft preferred method of employing startup scripts. Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000464.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000464.htm You might ask 'why would I want to do this?' But if your users do not have access to local drives, then nothing's going to get put in the recycle bin anyway, so it's one less thing they can fiddle with. Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000463.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000463.htm Did a migration of a school the other week, afterwards it seems the "little darlings" had discovered that they could (from the logon screen) access the "Ease of access" settings and enable "High Contrast", which is obviously hilarious, but annoying for their teachers. Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000462.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000462.htm If you need to lock down your client machines desktops and prevent your users from changing the wallpaper, then here's a run through on how to do it. Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:22:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000461.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000461.htm One of the sites most popular pages gets a makeover, is updated for version 8.4, and a video walkthrough. Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:18:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000070.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000070.htm By default Windows will display the last user that successfully logged on, on shared machines or in a secure domain environment you might not want this.. Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:11:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000460.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000460.htm If your'e logging on as a new user and Internet Explorer has not yet been ran, then it wants to run the "Setup Windows Internet Explorer 8" or "Set up Internet Explorer 9" Wizard. Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000459.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000459.htm This is one article I've been meaning to get round to for ages. Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:44:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000458.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000458.htm One of the sites most popular pages gets a makeover, is updated for version 8.4, and a video walkthrough, I'm far to good to you guys! Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000072.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000072.htm Seen today on four brand new Windows 7 machines. Whenever you attempt to open the control panel, you see the error message, "Windows Explorer has stopped working" Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:49:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000457.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000457.htm Was patching some ESXi 4.0.0 hosts today, and post update they all displayed this error. Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:28:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000456.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000456.htm Ever since Windows Vista, Microsoft thought that it would remove the Telnet client from Windows, and have it as an "Optional extra". For most people that's fine, but for anyone who programs network devices, or needs to test that ports are open, of test mail flow by telnet to port 25, that's a pain. Tue, 31 May 2011 20:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000455.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000455.htm A walkthrough for upgrading the OS image and ASDM using the ASDM, you will need the files on our local machine. NOTE for updated ASA and ASDM software you need a valid Cisco CCO Login and support contract. Mon, 30 May 2011 21:04:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000073.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000073.htm A walkthrough for upgrading the OS image and ASDM using CLI, you will need a TFTP server up and running with the files sat in the TFTP servers upload directory. NOTE for updated ASA and ASDM software you need a valid Cisco CCO Login and support contract. Mon, 30 May 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000074.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000074.htm Out of the box Exchange 2007 and 2010 comes with a "Self Signed" digital certificate. That's OK for getting you up and running but your Outlook clients may start to see the error below. Fri, 27 May 2011 10:36:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000454.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000454.htm Exchange 2010 installs with it's own (self signed) certificate. To stay free of security errors and warnings, the best bet is to purchase a "publicly signed" digital certificate and use that. Tue, 24 May 2011 20:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000453.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000453.htm Seen while attempting to connect to to a Windows machine via the RDP plug in on a Cisco ASA firewall. Mon, 23 May 2011 12:59:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000452.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000452.htm Before Outlook 2010 we could simply migrate autocomplete entries by locating and moving the clients nk2 file, moving that. But Outlook 2010 and did away with the .nk2 autocomplete file. Sun, 22 May 2011 20:45:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000451.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000451.htm I've been doing some prep work with WDS this week for a client, (I've covered Deploying Windows 7 with WDS before). So I went to check if there was a new WAIK as Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have had a Service Pack 1 released since last time I deployed windows 7 in bulk. And sure enough, there is an update. (Though the update is for WindowsPE Not the SIM tools I would be using). Fri, 20 May 2011 10:43:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000450.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000450.htm Seen while SIM attempts to create a catalog file from a Windows image (.wim) file. This problem occurs if you are trying to create a catalog from from an x86 (32 bit) image, on a machine that is running a x64 bit version of the WAIK. Thu, 19 May 2011 20:22:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000449.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000449.htm OK this error comes in a lot of forms, and references lots of different processes other than edgetransport.exe. I tried all the stuff I found online to try and fix the problem. But non of them worked, (this error gets logged when the Exchange services start). In the end I fixed it myself, and it was annoyingly easy. Wed, 18 May 2011 12:18:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000448.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000448.htm Normally you can just create a new scope on your new DHCP server, but if you have a lot of reservaions that you dont wan't to have to recreate (for printers network devices etc), then it's a better option to migrate/copy the scope to the new server. Wed, 18 May 2011 12:18:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000447.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000447.htm You are seeing this error message because, a) you have Older Outlook clients in your Exchange org, or b) Someone forgot to replicate this public folder over to Exchange 2010 when you upgraded. Tue, 17 May 2011 12:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000446.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000446.htm A basic configuration error caused this. Fri, 13 May 2011 11:06:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000445.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000445.htm Normally you can just add licenses from Help > About CA ARCserve Backup > Add/View Licences, However you may find that you cannot enter a "Backup Suite" Licence code/Activation key. Fri, 13 May 2011 10:04:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000444.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000444.htm If you have mail in .pst format that you would like to import, either exported via ExMerge from an older Exchange server, or exported via Outlook, then the process for importing that mail into Exchange 2010 (Post SP1) has changed. Wed, 11 May 2011 14:24:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000443.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000443.htm ExMerge has been around for a long time, its used (as the name implies) to merge pst files into existing mailbox's. However its also a great tool to export/backup users mail box's if you're doing a migration, or if you have got your "Disaster Recovery" hat on. Wed, 11 May 2011 13:08:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000091.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000091.htm Right at the start of the install process, it falls over while performing 'Organization Preparation'. Tue, 10 May 2011 11:59:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000442.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000442.htm It took a call to SmoothWall support for me to get Windows updates to work, then after activating a few 2008 R2 servers via phone, I was motivated to get online activation running as well. Sat, 07 May 2011 14:34:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000441.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000441.htm Had fun with Windows Updates today, in the end it was all down to a proxy server. Thu, 05 May 2011 22:22:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000440.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000440.htm Windows cannot access \\{target machine name} - Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network. to try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose. Wed, 04 May 2011 13:09:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000439.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000439.htm You would like Groupshield to block email containing certain keywords, for example you are getting a lot of spam containing certain words and phrases, in either the the subject line or message body. Sun, 01 May 2011 19:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000438.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000438.htm You would like to put in a site to site VPN from a site that has a SmoothWall firewall to another site that has a Cisco ASA. Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:14:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000436.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000436.htm Seen if you are trying to update your iPhone, and you have bought items on the phone, but not transferred them into iTunes. Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:02:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000435.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000435.htm When attempting to move a mailbox (usually during a migration), you see the following error. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:02:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000434.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000434.htm Problem performing document level backups of Exchange with ARCserve. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:32:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000433.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000433.htm If you have Groupshield and Exchange 2003 you can use it to add email disclaimers. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:59:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000432.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000432.htm After messing around, adding and removing some mail profiles on my Outlook 2010 It managed to lose my favorites folder. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000431.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000431.htm Seen while trying to execute a move mailbox move on Exchange 2010. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000430.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000430.htm When trying to access Outlook Web App (or Outlook Web Access for those used to earlier versions of Exchange), you see a blank white page and nothing else. Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000429.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000429.htm You have an HP Procurve switch, and you would like to add a management IP so you can view the web console. Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000428.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000428.htm Usually If I've got a lot of user profiles and data to shift, I use the clients backup software, copying user and group permission's is pretty easy, xcopy can do that quite happily. The problem is migrating the shares and share permissions, that's got to be done manually, for a few folders that's easy to do, but if they have a LOT of shared folders that can be a problem. Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:48:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000427.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000427.htm I've already written at length about migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010, I was doing a migration this week and migrating the public folders was proving to be a pain. Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:23:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000426.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000426.htm This procedure was carried out on a Draytek Vigor 2800 Router, for this I needed to forward RDP. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000425.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000425.htm I had to update a Cisco PIX 515E last week, Cisco 500 firewalls are a bit thin on the ground these days, and most of my corporate clients have replaced then with Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls. So as these units are now getting retired, or moved to the test bench, or sold on ebay. I thought I'd document probably the last one I did for posterity, and to help anyone else out. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:05:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000424.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000424.htm I'm running Chrome 11.0.696.25 beta (At time of writing) and I've seen this error a few times, usually with Facebook, and it's been more of an annoyance than anything else. I've seen it on my Windows 7 machine, and on my Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:37:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000423.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000423.htm AnyConnect runs over TCP port 443 (That's HTTPS/SSL), but if you only have one public IP and need to forward that port to a web server or internal host then you are a bit snookered. You can or course change the port that AnyConnect runs over, so that its no loner on TCP port 443. Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:54:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000422.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000422.htm Seen with McAfee 8.8i when attempting to update via the McAfee SDAT file. Seen on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Server 2008, and Server 2003. Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000421.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000421.htm Since Server 2008 we don't have a "documents and settings" folder any more Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000420.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000420.htm You have a 2008 R2 Server to sysprep, but your not sure where sysprep is. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000419.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000419.htm Saw this today on a HP Proliant DL380 G7 Server. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:05:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000418.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000418.htm Over the next few weeks I've got a couple of Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium 5 Tape drives to deploy with ESXi 4.1 U1. So thanks to my colleague (Andrew Dorrian) for giving me the heads up on the problems I would face. Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:02:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000417.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000417.htm Microsoft have not only slipstreamed the service pack into the install media, they have (Finally!) got the install routine to put in all the usual pre-requisites, roles, and features, that you had to do yourself before. Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000416.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000416.htm Updated for Exchange 2010 SP1 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:45:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000234.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000234.htm IE9 went on full release yesterday, heres how to update, and a few reasons why you should Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000415.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000415.htm I've seen this happen a few times now, while looking at your Virtual infrastructure, one or more client machines is greyed out and shown as (Orphaned). Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:52:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000414.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000414.htm Seen on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate (With and without Aero enabled, on two separate machines). Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:45:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000413.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000413.htm If you have only a few files to share, you might want to consider using Dropbox, however if you want to share your files over the network then you need to install samba and configure it. Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:37:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000412.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000412.htm I have a guest VM on my vSphere test rig that's running Ubuntu 10.10. That I use for testing, for a while I could not get the screen resolution above 854x480 (For wide screen or 16:9 format). Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000411.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000411.htm While trying to set up a samba share, I got the following error today. Failed to fetch http://ubuntu.retrosnub.co.uk/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/samba Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:36:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000410.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000410.htm Site to Site VPN's either work faultlessly straight away, or involve head scratching and a call to Cisco TAC, or someone like me to come and take a look. If I'm honest, the simplest and best answer to the problem is "Remove the Tunnel from both ends and put it back again". Just about every VPN tunnel I've put in that did not work, was a result of my fat fingers putting in the wrong subnet, IP address or shared secret Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000216.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000216.htm Dropbox, is a service that lets you keep files in "The Cloud" and synchronise them across multiple machines and platforms. Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000409.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000409.htm Service Pack 1 has been out for a just over a week now, so we have had enough time to see any glitches and problems. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:17:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000408.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000408.htm You have taken the plunge and installed Ubuntu, what are you going to do next? Here's some stuff to make your experience a little bit better. Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:36:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000407.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000407.htm While attempting to connect to a Cisco firewall with a Linux client (In my case Ubuntu 10.10,) using AnyConnect you see the following error, The AnyConnect package on the secure gateway could not be located. Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000406.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000406.htm I'm in the United Kingdom, and even when I set the UK Keyboard layout, Ubuntu wants to use a US keyboard layout for the logon/login screen. For most people this won't be a problem, but if you log into a domain you need the @ symbol. A US Keyboard has that in a different place, it's only a small niggle because I know where it is, but if it annoys me, it will be annoying someone else. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000405.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000405.htm There's probably a few reasons for this error, in my case the fix was alarmingly simple. Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:52:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000404.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000404.htm I'm a big fan of Tough Drives! My old 260GB was getting a bit full - so I bit the bullet and replaced it with a shiny new Tough Drive Sport 750GB. Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:49:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000403.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000403.htm I promised to take a quick look at one of my mum's friends laptops the other evening, the brief was; they had a problem opening office attachments, and their wireless mouse was'nt working. I assumed they needed the document conversion pack and probably had a flat battery, so I downloaded the update, and slung some batteries in my laptop bag. Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:11:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000402.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000402.htm I did a VMware VI3 to vSphere (4.1 U1) upgrade today. While bringing all the guest machines across, suddenly I could no longer browse the datastore, I only had one more guest to "Add to the inventory", and all the mission critical machines were already migrated. I tried rebooting the virtual center, I tried restarting the ESXi host machines, still it sat saying "Searching Datastore......". Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:39:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000401.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000401.htm Group Policy Preferences (GPP) first came in with Server 2008 and were enhanced for Server 2008 R2, To be able to apply them to older Windows clients, you need to install the "Client side Extensions" (CSE), You can either script this, deploy with a group policy, or if you have WSUS you can send out the update that way. Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000389.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000389.htm A while back I ran though "Managing Cisco ASA devices via the ASDM with Ubuntu", I prefer to work at command line, with a new firewall my only choice is via the console port, In a windows environment I can fire up Hyperterminal and I'm away. With Linux there a couple of things to do first. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:56:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000400.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000400.htm Seen while installing Office 2007 Enterprise On Server 2008 R2 (Don't ask). Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:45:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000399.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000399.htm Normal users probably won't care, but if your in a corporate environment of a school for example you might not want your users having access to the personal folder in their start menu. The video below runs though how to remove this option on a single machine and how to remove it with Group Policy Preferences (GPP). Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:45:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000398.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000398.htm My Colleague had this problem this week, and it involved a call to Microsoft to resolve. Basically the client had some comms problems, so ran Windows updates, post update the server (which was the main domain controller and DHCP server for the network). Could not be seen by any clients on the network, The server itself however, could quite happily see everything else. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:14:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000397.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000397.htm Even though I prefer to use command line, there are times I need to manage Cisco firewalls from the ASDM. To do this from my Netbook running Ubuntu 10.10 it was not as straight forward as I was used to. Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:34:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000396.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000396.htm Im not a big fan of Java, In the past I've either had the wrong version, or it's made something run like a dog, but I need it for the Cisco management stuff I need to do. Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:01:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000395.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000395.htm I think this is a feature that should be enabled by default, perhaps it will be in Windows 8. Essentially just a quick policy change and you can perform an internet search with your default browser and search provider, straight from Windows Search/Run box. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000394.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000394.htm This tests connectivity between the PeteNetLive site and the host you are going to scan. It can be used to test connectivity, port forwarding, and configuration of firewalls and routers. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000393.php http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000393.php You try to connect to your Cisco CSC module, and see the following error, CSC is not activated. Please run setup wizard under Configuration > Trend Micro Content Security > CSC Setup > Wizard Setup to perform setup process. Click OK button to to to Trend Micro Content Security Setup wizard. Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:19:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000392.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000392.htm I had a client the other week with about 25 sites, his core site was changing ISP and therefore changing its IP address. On the main site this is pretty straightforward, just change the outside interfaces IP address, sub net mask and the default route (That's the default gateway for non cisco-ites). Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:14:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000391.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000391.htm Are you worried your machine has the recently discovered flaw in the Intel "Cougar Point" Chipset - (Intel® 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family). Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:37:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000390.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000390.htm Spend any time working in windows and sooner or later something will upset Windows explorer, and when it crashes it has a habit of taking something with it (usually your desktop experience - or something you've been working on and have not saved!) Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:09:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000388.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000388.htm with previous phones you could just select an mp3 track and hey presto it's your ringtone. But hey this is Apple! And iTunes is involved, which makes things a little more complicated. Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:09:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000387.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000387.htm I'm far to lazy to type my user name in every time I start up, I tried and searched for a solution to no avail, I asked on the ubuntu forums and user KryTarik pointed me at the document I needed. Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:27:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000386.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000386.htm At the time of writing Adobe have pulled the previous beta of x64 bit flash for Chrome, which is annoying because I am running it on my x64 Ubuntu 10.10 box. Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:50:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000385.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000385.htm You have a Linux client machine, and you want to authenticate to and log into a Windows domain. I don't have too much history with Linux, but from what I've read this used to be a nightmare. Using Ubuntu (10.10) I did have a couple of hiccups, but I did get there in the end. Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000384.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000384.htm The Windows Snipping Tool is not in the default build of Server 2008 R2, it's part of the 'Desktop Experience' feature. Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:46:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000383.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000383.htm A common error on Backup Exec version 12, essentially the media server is losing communication to the Backup Exec remote agent Note: Even if you only have one server it will still be running a remote agent! Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000382.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000382.htm I wrote a while ago an article outlining re sizing guest hard drives using the VMware converter, and that article still holds true. But it relies on you having vCenter, and not everyone has. Also it takes a long time and involves a fair bit of "faffing about", Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:30:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000381.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000381.htm Openfiler is a free NAS / SAN prebuilt Linux distribution, that can provide iSCSI storage to your VMware environment, Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:01:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000380.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000380.htm YES! it is, if in doubt see the compatibility matrix. But you have tried to install it and seen an error? Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:54:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000379.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000379.htm Seen on Windows Server 2008 R2 running on VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000377.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000377.htm When you try and delete a Virtual Machine from ESX or VSphere you see the following error, Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000376.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000376.htm Seen when trying to connects the Evolution mail client to a Microsoft Exchange server (via evolution-mapi). Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000375.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000375.htm Following on from yesterdays post, a common bluetooth driver problem I fell foul of yesterday. Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:47:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000374.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000374.htm or using your iPhone as a Wireless Access Point (without jail breaking it). Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000373.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000373.htm When trying to install Blackberry Express, the option to install "Blackberry Enterprise server" is "Greyed out" (or Grayed out if your American). Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:52:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000372.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000372.htm Stop Outlook 2010 asking you EVERY time! Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:18:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000371.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000371.htm Caused by McAfee Groupshield. Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:19:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000370.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000370.htm You have an ESXi server running 4.0 and you want to update to 4.1. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:27:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000369.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000369.htm A Few weeks back I was working on a Windows XP machine that had been infected with some rogue AV spyware, I was having no luck installing my usual cleaning tools so I booted to safe mode, I have a USB thumb drive that I keep a set of up to date AV/Spyware tools on for this very purpose, but the machine did not want to let me open it. Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:11:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000368.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000368.htm This error is so common, every time I fix it I berate myself for not documenting it for the site. It's easier to do it, than to write it down, so see the video below. Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:44:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000367.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000367.htm Step by Step configuration to connecting Outlook to Gmail Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:12:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000366.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000366.htm You are fitting an additional drive cage into a proliant server and need to cable the HP SAS Expander card. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:57:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000365.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000365.htm Saw this a while ago, and just thought it was a "One Off". Then on a visit to a client yesterday I saw it on both machines I was working on. Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000364.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000364.htm Popular item updated today. Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000183.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000183.htm Annoying Error on my Laptop, thankfully a quick 2 minute fix. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:42:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000363.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000363.htm All iPhones (above version 2) have the ability to take screenshots without having to download an app! Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:29:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000361.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000361.htm You have already configured a Cisco ASA / PIX device to provide Client VPN connectivity, and you now wish to configure the iPhone/iPad Device. Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:08:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000360.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000360.htm There are a LOT of different reasons for Windows Updates to fail, I can't cover every eventuality, but there a a few common steps to try. Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:37:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000359.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000359.htm Either the account specified to run the Mailbox Manager process does not have rights, or an account has not been specified. Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000358.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000358.htm You want to put in a secure IPSEC VPN tunnel from a Cisco ASA Device to a Sonicwall Firewall. Note in this example we will use 3DES for encryption, SHA1 for Hashing, Diffie Hellman Group 2, PFS enabled, and we will use a shared secret (Pre Shared Key). Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000357.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000357.htm By default the Administrators account in SBS 2008 is disabled, while this is not a bad thing and there are very valid reasons for it being disabled, some users still want to use it. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:53:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000356.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000356.htm Just recently I bought a new car, and while I've had SatNav on my phone for ages, this is the first car I've had that has it "built in". I decided to have a look at upgrading the DVD for one with more recent maps. I then found out that a new DVD from Jaguar was about £150. This made me think that I would rather make a backup of the SatNav DVD and keep the original with my car docs. Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:29:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000355.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000355.htm It's annoying but for some reason Google Chrome simply downloads .jnlp files rather than opening and launching the Java applications. You would think that associating .jnlp files so that they open in Chrome would fix the problem, but it does not. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:17:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000354.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000354.htm In my case the server (SBS2003) had recently been patched and updated. and one of those updates has stopped the IAS service from running, this was originally seen with MS KB 956189, but the update that talks about MS KB 953230 was not visible on the list of installed updates. However the fix is the same. Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:10:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000353.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000353.htm You are having a problem with spam, the Exchange agents are no replacement for a proper AntiSpam solution, but they are better than nothing. By default they don't install, unless you are installing an "Exchange Edge Transport Server". For most SMB client that's not an option so there's nothing to stop you installing the options on your "Stand Alone" Exchange box. Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:19:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000352.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000352.htm With regards to Ping, out of the box a Cisco firewall will allow you to ping the interface you are connected to, so in a normal setup inside clients can ping the inside interface, and the firewalls outside interface can be pinged from outside. Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:05:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000351.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000351.htm There are many causes, this can be caused by Cisco switches (and HP Procurve switches), not liking the firmware, NIC driver, or HP Teaming software. Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:40:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000350.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000350.htm Seen while using Backup Exec 2010 R2, while attempting to backup an Exchange 2010 server (on Windows server 2008 R2) in a VMware virtualised environment (using the VMware Backup Exec Agent). Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:59:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000349.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000349.htm Exchange fails to mount a database and complains, with an error like the one below when you try and mount it manually. Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:08:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000348.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000348.htm Updated - Second time this has bitten me!!. Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000214.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000214.htm I rolled out AnyConnect for a client this week, and saw this error on one of the clients. Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:26:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000347.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000347.htm You would like to set up port forwarding on a Sonicwall 2040, in this example I will assume we are forwarding SMTP (TCP port 25). Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:57:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000346.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000346.htm My colleague swapped over one of our clients to a new IP range last week, all went well except ActiveSync stopped working on the clients phones, it took a while for the penny to drop. But this problem was caused by the "fix" for the "Active Sync Support Code:85010014" that's outlined in MS KB817379. Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:39:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000345.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000345.htm To find out what service pack and rollups have been applied to Microsoft Exchange you need to locate its "Build Number". Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:38:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000344.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000344.htm You have a nasty email that contains a virus or some offensive content and you want to delete ALL instances of it. Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:14:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000343.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000343.htm You want to insatall and configure FTP on your 2008 Server, and more importantly make it work without disabling the firewall. Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:14:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000342.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000342.htm It's simple permissions error in IIS, Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:30:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000341.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000341.htm Whist in IIS Manager and attempting to edit the authentication for the Exchange directory you see the following error, Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:30:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000340.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000340.htm Been a while since I've seen this one, and strangely I didn't document it. so when I was asked this morning I searched here on PeteNetLive, and In my personal database of solutions but the cupboard was bare. Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:30:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000339.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000339.htm Ever sat in a train station, cafe, or airport, and seen "Free Public Wifi"? It's a well known fact that my personal motto is "there's nothing better than free things", sadly in this case your not going to get what you were expecting :( Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:13:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000338.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000338.htm UPDATED, one of the busiest pages on the site gets an update to reflect the new port forwarding commands. Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:49:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000077.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000077.htm Site to site VPN's are great for main office to branch office connections, but for remote workers in a SOHO environment obtaining a static IP address can be expensive and time consuming. Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:27:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000336.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000336.htm It's been a while since I wrote a walk though on the Cisco AnyConnect/SSL VPN solution, and usually I secure these with Active Directory or simply using the local user database on the firewall. Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000335.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000335.htm While attempting to open a Backup Exec job log, you see the following error. Error C:\DOCUMEN~1\ADMINI~1.COM\LOCALS~1\Temp\1\hist{logname}.htm contains an invalid path. Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000334.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000334.htm At time of writing (30/09/10) it seems I cant get a definitive answer! My colleague tried to log a third line support call with Microsoft this week, as soon as they found out that Exchange 2010 was running in a VMware environment, they (literally) hung up on him. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000333.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000333.htm The Official Fansite on Facebook. Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:43:00 GMT http://www.facebook.com/pages/httpwwwpetenetlivecom/115346558490195 http://www.facebook.com/pages/httpwwwpetenetlivecom/115346558490195 Seen on Windows 7 but can also occur on Vista, I had this problem a while ago and fixed it then it reoccurred this morning (after I'd spent a morning on a client site changing my IP address a few times. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:07:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000332.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000332.htm You have a ZyXEL router (In my case a P-600R-D1) and you want to put a device behind it with a public IP. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:07:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000331.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000331.htm The IE9 Beta came out a few days ago so I thought I'd take a look, bad news for Windows XP users as you can only run it on Vista and Windows 7. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:07:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000330.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000330.htm I downloaded the IE9 Beta today to give it a test drive and maybe write a review for the site, and it failed miserably and got stuck in a crash loop. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:33:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000329.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000329.htm It's been a while but when I was asked my notes were seriously out of date .Should you with to enable this feature then do the following. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:06:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000328.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000328.htm If you want to shield the outside world from seeing what mail platform you are running,even if you just want to deter the casual script kiddy who is trying to remote fingerprint a massive range of IP addresses. Changing the SMTP response banner is quite simple to do. Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:11:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000327.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000327.htm A recent update of Chrome (in my case to 6.0.472.59), turned off AutoFill, I use autofill to remember information for web forms a lot, so because I'm lazy I wanted it turned back on again. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:51:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000326.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000326.htm This is usually caused by a fault in the Groupshield databases, you need to generate new ones. Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:58:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000325.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000325.htm If you are unsure what password complexity is click here. Bear in mind that it's there for valid security reason, the more complex your passwords are, the more secure your network is. However the vast majority of users can even remember where they saved their last Word document, never mind a complex password that changes every 30 days. Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:48:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000324.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000324.htm You want to block access to Google Talk, but not disrupt other services like Google Search and Gmail Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000323.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000323.htm You're used to having a "Page" icon, and a "Spanner" icon in Google Chrome. But now it's disappeared? Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000322.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000322.htm You might ask why? But I needed to do this the other day for some screen shots, and if I had to work out how to do it then someone else will want to use aero on Windows Server 2008. Besides I've seem people running this OS on their Laptops etc, so if it were me, I'd rather look at Aero than the standard windows "Theme". Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000321.htm http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000321.htm