This was a tough one to figure out, yet, simple to do once I did it right. I am trying to setup a lab network to do some testing with recovery and migration with older Exchange and Windows servers before we do upgrades to 2012 R2 servers. I am also […]
A user at one of my clients ran into this today. He couldn’t open any images that were attached to Outlook. (Outlook 2003) Â I first just cleared out any temp files in c:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Temp folder and reset it to NOT be read only. Also reset all perms in that folder and […]
Carbon Copy Cloner backup saves productivity and downtime during OSX Mountain Lion upgrade because of a damaged disk error. I could’t wait, I had to install OSX Mountain Lion on my main, production MacBook Pro. Yeah, shouldn’t have done that. Well, I had a Mac Mini that I already upgraded […]
Today I ran into a problem while repairing a computer that had a partially cleaned up virus. I completed the cleanup that my client attempted, ran all my antivirus tools, and thought I had everything working. That is, until I noticed the little red shield for Windows Security Center. It […]
Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn’t remember what the command line program was or the switches. Boot to System Rescue CD. mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO) cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them […]
Export your Exchange mailbox from Outlook 2010 is easy, you just have to know how to get around the Microsoft logic in their menu’s. Â Makes great sense to put “Exporting” functions under the “Open” and “Import” options and menu. Â Doesn’t it? Â Great thinking Microsoft. So… to export to a […]
I had a client recently that had their browsers hijacked. Everything they typed in the browser ended up redirecting them to some test_s.php file at “www.fes.skâ€. (Don’t open that, or you might end up with a virus! I just wanted people to find this in case it might help clean […]
Well for the larger businesses out there, this may not be a useful tip. But for those of us that support small networks, like less than 50 or even 10 systems, utilizing shares on workstations is sometimes needed. For example, I have servers in most all of my networks, and […]
When you clone or image your Linux hard drive with Ghost or Drive Image (or any other imaging software) you might not be able to load Grub. Usually just running some Grub commands off a Linux System Rescue CD will fix it. I think most any bootable Linux Live CD […]
Some RAID controllers are not what I call *true RAID* drive controllers. They may have a hardware controller, but they run kind of a fake RAID on the host OS. It’s not really software raid, but the RAID is dependant on the OS. This, as you might guess, causes some […]
All the logical fixes didn’t work. Reinstall, removed ide drivers, reinstalled again, no worky. I was getting an Error code 39 (and 37 on another machine), and the DVD/CD drives would not show up in Windows. “Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)” The problem seems […]
There’s lots of reasons to boot to a USB drive, but mainly I am interested in booting to a Pen/Key/Jump drive for utility purposes. Like making drive images, partition resizing, or other system maintenance. One of the main problems I am running into these days, as a service technician, is […]
A few minutes ago I ran into a blog by someone that said something that needed to be said. IT Certs are not really worth getting. I just wanted to save my comments on my own blog to reiterate and edit later. Here’s my comments on his blog: Having spent […]
