Event ID 3033
Nov17

Event ID 3033

KB ID 0000130  Problem You receive an Event ID 3033 error, with the following description, ‘The average of the most recent <?> heartbeat intervals used by clients is less than or equal to <?>. Make sure that your firewall configuration is set to work correctly with Exchange ActiveSync and direct push technology. Specifically, make sure that your firewall is configured so that requests to Exchange ActiveSync do not...

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SmoothWall – Allowing Windows Updates and Windows Activation
Nov17

SmoothWall – Allowing Windows Updates and Windows Activation

KB ID 0000441  Problem I’ve had fun this week installing a new virtual environment for a client with a SmoothWall firewall. It took a call to SmoothWall support for me to get Windows updates to work, then after activating a few 2008 R2 servers via phone, I was motivated to get online activation running as well. Windows Activation Error – (We are being blocked by the SmoothWall Proxy). A problem occurred when Windows tried...

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SEM – SPAMfighter Exchange Module – Installation and Configuration with Exchange 2013
Nov17

SEM – SPAMfighter Exchange Module – Installation and Configuration with Exchange 2013

KB ID 0000824  Problem “I seem to get a lot of spam”, and “I get a lot more spam than I used to” are right up there with “My computer is running slow”. It’s a problem that, eats up users time and fills your mail stores with junk, and time/disk space costs money. SEM is tiny! In a world where a graphics driver is now over 100MB the entire install suite is less than 11MB. This is going into my...

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Password Does Not Meet Complexity Requirements
Nov17

Password Does Not Meet Complexity Requirements

KB ID 0000229  Problem Windows Server has a password complexity requirement to make sure passwords are strong. Yes it can be disabled, but while it is in place you need your passwords to confirm to the following. Error within AD Error at Logon Note: To disable password complexity click here.   Solution To meet the policy your password MUST, 1. Passwords cannot contain the user’s account name or parts of the user’s...

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Windows – Cannot Delete Thumbs.db
Nov17

Windows – Cannot Delete Thumbs.db

KB ID 0000683 Problem Thumbs.db is a small hidden system file that gets generated when you view media in a folder, you know when you look at all your MP3 songs and you can see the album cover as a thumbnail? Or you can see what all your photos are as a tiny thumbnail before you open them, well thats what the thumbs.db file is doing. It’s a tiny cache of all that information so next time someone visits this folder it displays...

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