Windows – Getting Drivers for ‘Unknown Device’ or ‘Base System Device’
KB ID 0000699 Problem There’s nothing more annoying, you have just rebuilt your PC and you are missing some drivers. Everything appears to be working but there’s one (or more) devices in Device Manager with a yellow exclamation mark over them called ‘Unknown Device’ or ‘Base System Device”. Solution This solution is not a ‘Fix All’ for all situations, but it will point you in the right...
Windows – Error ‘A Good Time server could not be located’
KB ID 0000705 Problem Seen when running dcdiag, Error(s): Starting test: Advertising Warning: Server-Name is not advertising as a time server. ……………………. Server-Name failed test Advertising Running enterprise tests on : PeteNetLive.com Starting test: Intersite ……………………. PeteNetLive.com passed test Intersite Starting test: FsmoCheck...
Windows Server – Setup Home Folders and Profile Folders
KB ID 0000739 Problem A while back I got an email, Message: Hallo Pete, Can you make a tutorial for me for sharing a Home Folder or Profile Path folder for every user? It’s hard to get one. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Matthew Wittenberg </br Well it’s taken me a while (sorry!) But here you go, Solution Creating and Allocating Home Folders to Users 1. Create a folder that is on a drive or volume with plenty of room....
Windows – Compressed (zipped) Folders Error ‘File not found or no read permission’
KB ID 000077 Problem Seen when attempting to compress a folder or file using Windows Explorer. Compressing… Compressed (zipped) Folders Error File not found or no read permission. Solution This is not really a permissions error at all! The built in Windows Explorer compression tool does NOT LIKE large files and folders. Unfortunately that’s a limitation you are stuck with. But there is nothing to stop you using the free...
Windows Update Error C8000710
KB ID 0000769 Problem Seen when attempting to perform windows update. Solution If you didn’t already know, then your problems have just got bigger, this error indicates there’s not enough room on the drive. Find Out What’s Filled up the Hard Drive Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA
Windows – Users Home Drives Renamed to ‘My Documents’
KB ID 0000783 Problem This problem was originally identified by Microsoft here. But none of the fixes recommended by them were really practical in my clients situation. I did read one promising post that said, if you disable offline file caching by GPO this problem would cease. However this particular client HAD TO have that feature enabled (for Ranger Offline). Someone else had written a PowerShell script that ran through and...
WSUS Error – ‘An HTTP error has occurred’
KB ID 0000796 Problem Seen on SBS 2011 and Server 2008 R2. When running the WSUS configuration wizard, at the ‘Connect to Upstream Server’ page, connection fails; An HTTP error occurred Details… When viewing details you see; WebExpeption: The request failed with the error message: <html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body> <h2>Object moved to <a...
Stop ‘Open File – Security Warning’
KB ID 0000804 Problem I put in a Remote Desktop Services Server this week, and every time the users launched their line of business app, Open File – Security Warning The publisher of this file can not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software. Name: {Application name} Publisher: Unknown Publisher Type: Application From: {PathApplication name} This file does not have a valid digital signature that verifies its...
Event ID 1014 and 1002 (Windows IIS Web Server)
KB ID 0000808 Problem Seen on Server 2003 running IIS 6, about once a week the website would fail, and the client had to reboot the server to bring things back up again. I took a look at the server and noticed that when the failure happened, we had five Event ID 1014 errors; Source W3SVC The World Wide Web Publishing Service encountered an internal error in its process management of worker process ‘<value>’ serving...
XCOPY – Insufficient Memory
KB ID 0000810 Problem If I’m migrating client data, I use Xcopy a lot, especially if I want to preserve the permissions. One of the questions I usually ask is “Do any of your users have file names that are very long, i.e. longer than 256 characters?” Because if you are moving a lot of data and it’s been running for a few hours, then suddenly fails saying ‘Insufficient Memory’, then that’s probably...