BT Domains Center – Setup Your Mail Server DNS Records
KB ID 0000900 Problem If you are used to setting up DNS records, then the BT Web Portal (btdomainmanager.com) can be a little confusing. I was stuck yesterday, luckily I had another client I could get to check their records for me. Solution In the example below I’ve got two IP addresses to which I want mail delivering to, 123.123.123.123 and 123.123.123.125, (yours may be on completely different ranges, that’s OK.) In addition...
Windows XP – Sysprep (for imaging)
KB ID 0000599 Problem A client who we recently did a WDS (Windows 7) install for, needed to image a couple of Windows XP machines, (They had some software that either would not run, or was not supported on Windows 7). They asked me for some documentation on how to do this, it’s been such a long time since I imaged any XP machine, so I took the opportunity to document it properly. Solution Before you begin, be aware you need to...
Windows – Backing up, Transferring, and Restoring Wireless Network Settings
KB ID 0000626 Problem If you have a machine setup and working on your wireless network, sometimes it’s easier to set other machines up by simply migrating the settings. Either because you don’t want your child to try and type in a 64 bit WPA key, or you might simply have forgotten the WEP/WPA key,and don’t want to go through all the hassle of setting it up again. In a small business environment you can give your...
Windows – Export / Recover WEP and WPA Wireless Keys
KB ID 0001015 Problem If you need to connect to your wireless network with a new machine and have forgotten the key, you can view the WEP or WPA key in cleartext using the following procedure on a machine that has connected before. Solution 1. First launch PowerShell, ensure you ‘Run as administrator’. 2. To show all the wireless profiles stored on this machine, issue the following command; netsh wlan show profiles 3....
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 – Activation Error 0xC004F074
KB ID 0000766 Problem I jumped on a clients remote desktop services server today and saw; However when I went to activate; Windows couldn’t be activated Error Code: 0xC004F074 Error Description:the Software Licensing Service reported that the product could not be activated. No Key Management Service (KMS) could be contacted. Please see the Application Event Log for additional information. Solution Out of the box this version of...