Windows Update Error C8000710
Nov17

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

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Windows – Schedule a Reboot For a Specific Time
Nov17

Windows – Schedule a Reboot For a Specific Time

KB ID 0000866  Problem If you want to do this, and you do a quick internet search, all results come back as either suggesting using psshutdown or writing a script then scheduling that. I suppose a script is a good idea if you want to reboot at 01:00 every day for example. But what if you want to reboot a client server once at 17:00 and it’s 10:00 in the morning? Chances are, if you’re like me, you will be working on...

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World Wide Web Service Wont Start, Because Windows Process Activation Service Wont Start.
Nov17

World Wide Web Service Wont Start, Because Windows Process Activation Service Wont Start.

KB ID 0000878 Problem This problem started when a client attempted to add a ‘distribution point’ for System Center onto the server. This process failed, then Outlook Web Access stopped working. First line found that the World Wide Web service was not running, when they attempted to start it, this happened; Windows could not start the World Wide Web Publishing Service service on Local Computer. Error 1068: The dependency...

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Force Media Center to Update its Libraries
Nov17

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...

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SQL Install Error “SQL Server Browser Service Group Does Not Exist”
Nov17

SQL Install Error “SQL Server Browser Service Group Does Not Exist”

KB ID 0000689  Problem Seen when reinstalling SQL 2008 R2 on a domain controller. Note: as a background the SQL Server was installed previously and then the server was promoted to a domain controller. Then when the attempt to reinstall SQL was carried out this happened: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup The following error has occurred. SQL Server Browser service group does not exists. Check for earlier failures in the setup Note:...

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