Force Media Center to Update its Libraries
KB ID 0000627 Problem I use Media Center a lot, and the one thing that bugs me is, every time I add a new film or TV series etc, I have to restart Media Center, restart services, or reboot the entire media PC before I can see them in the list. After some searching it appears that Media Center uses the same repository/database of media that Windows Media Player uses. There is a convoluted method of stopping services, deleting files...
Outlook 2010 – Migrate Autocomplete Settings
KB ID 0000451 Problem Before Outlook 2010 we could simply migrate autocomplete entries by locating and moving the clients nk2 file. But Outlook 2010 did away with the .nk2 autocomplete file. The autocomplete/autosuggest file remembers your previously typed email addresses. The good news is that you can still migrate the settings, only now you need to migrate a .dat file instead. Solution 1. In this example I’ll migrate the...
HP MSA P2000 (G3) Error – ‘Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume’
KB ID 0000817 Problem Seen on a G3 P2000 SAN, the client had also had an MSA70 shelf, which contained a failed array. I was removing the MSA and after the job, this error was getting logged. Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume (vdisk: unknown name, volume: unknown name, SN {Serial Number} it comprises {number}% of cache. Solution Essentially, there was data in the cache that needed writing to the array/vdisk, when it...