Deploy the Trend Worry Free Business Client via Group Policy
Nov17

Deploy the Trend Worry Free Business Client via Group Policy

KB ID 0000491 Problem Trend Worry Free is a nice product, though to deploy the client software 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. So you can...

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Trend Micro (Worry-Free Business Security) Cannot Remove Agent
Nov17

Trend Micro (Worry-Free Business Security) Cannot Remove Agent

KB ID 0000630  Problem While working on a badly Malware affected server the other day, I tried to resurrect the Trend Micro Security Agent. It refused to run, so I attempted to remove it. Then I could reinstall it cleanly. (I knew the password that it required for removal). However this it what happened when I tried; Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Agent Setup Unable to Uninstall An error has stopped the removal of the Trend...

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Bag Yourself a Cheap Firewall  The Symantec FW100 and FW200(R) Appliances
Nov17

Bag Yourself a Cheap Firewall The Symantec FW100 and FW200(R) Appliances

KB ID 0000109  Problem OK to be honest, before I went to work for my current employer I didn’t even know Symantec made hardware firewall’s, and at the time of writing they no longer make “Low End” firewall’s and corporate support for them has all but ended. With this in mind there are a load of them currently being replaced with newer firewall’s and they are either getting thrown in cupboards...

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Backup Exec error: (0xE0008520): Device could not be snapped because it contains an active cache file
Nov17

Backup Exec error: (0xE0008520): Device could not be snapped because it contains an active cache file

KB ID 0000265  Problem You are trying to perform a snapshot using Backup Exec Open File Option and there is already a snapshot file there. Error: V-79-57344-34110 – AOFO: Initialization failure on: “C:”. Advanced Open File Option used: Symantec Volume Snapshot Provider (VSP). Snapshot provider error (0xE0008520): Device could not be snapped because it contains an active cache file. Check the Windows Event Viewer for...

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Backup Exec Error – Exchange Backup “The VSS Writer failed    0x800423f3”
Nov17

Backup Exec Error – Exchange Backup “The VSS Writer failed 0x800423f3”

KB ID 0000307  Problem Backup Exec Exchange Backup fails with the following error, Final error: 0xe000fed1 – A failure occurred querying the Writer status. Final error category: Resource ErrorsWriter Name: Exchange Server, Writer ID: {76FE1AC4-15F7-4BCD-987E-8E1ACB462FB7}, Last error: The VSS Writer failed, but the operation can be retried (0x800423f3), State: Failed during freeze   Solution The Microsoft VSS writer that...

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