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HTTP error 500 on auth.owa after Exchange rollup 3

May 12, 2011By Geoff Kendal

After an upgrade to Exchange 2010 SP1, to add the update rollup 3 (v3), OWA stopped logging users in, instead just leaving them on a blank page (This was really a HTTP 500 error page for auth.owa). Turns out thatRead more…

May 12, 2011Geoff Kendal 8 comments

Unsolicited Remote Assistance and UAC

Feb 1, 2011By Geoff Kendal

I’ve always liked the idea of using unsolicited remote assistance to support users, as it’s already built in to Windows, so no need for 3rd party software and additional costs. The downside was it’s inability to handle UAC prompts veryRead more…

Feb 1, 2011Geoff Kendal 0 Comments

Problem starting Hyper-V VM on CSV cluster node

Jul 27, 2010By Geoff Kendal

During the testing of Hyper-V live migration on a freshly built failover cluster (2008 R2), all seemed to work well apart from one Linux (CentOS) VM. It had been running fine on a single Hyper-V server with the integration componentsRead more…

Jul 27, 2010Geoff Kendal 13 comments

iPhone remote wipe via Exchange

Jul 16, 2010By Geoff Kendal

A large percentage of my users access their corporate email and calendars via their iPhones, ActiveSync and Exchange 2007/2010. I started looking into the possibility of a solution where I could remotely wipe the devices when they get lost/stolen/eaten –Read more…

Jul 16, 2010Geoff Kendal 0 Comments

Setting the default domain in Exchange 2010 OWA

Apr 22, 2010By Geoff Kendal

The default forms based login for OWA (Outlook Web Access) on Exchange 2010 requires users to login with the username in ‘DOMAIN\Username’ format. Show stopper for most of our users – they just type thier username on its own everyRead more…

Apr 22, 2010Geoff Kendal 0 Comments

Windows SIM unable to generate catalog

Feb 10, 2010By Geoff Kendal

When using Windows SIM (System Image Manager), which is part of the Windows AIK (Automated Installation Kit) you might run inthe the the following error when you try and load a .WIM image… “Windows sim was unable to generate aRead more…

Feb 10, 2010Geoff Kendal 0 Comments

Stop media player being pinned to windows 7 taskbar

Oct 21, 2009By Geoff Kendal

Another of my little Windows 7 deployment annoyances has been the fact that windows media player is pinned to the new taskbar by default, and with windows 7, it’s not possible to programmatically add or remove pinned items from theRead more…

Oct 21, 2009Geoff Kendal 0 Comments

Lotus Notes And Vista Virtual Store

Mar 30, 2009By Rob Milner

Over the last few days, I have been having a lot of problems trying to write Lotus Notes .NET applications in Windows Vista. I had no problems writing the apps under XP, but since upgrading I kept getting error messages like “UnableRead more…

Mar 30, 2009Rob Milner 0 Comments

Altiris inventory solution not logging all exes

Feb 13, 2009By Geoff Kendal

When creating a some system inventory groups in Altiris, I noticed that it didn’t seem to be collecting information for certain exe’s that had been deployed onto the system. After a bit of reading, I found out the the softwareRead more…

Feb 13, 2009Geoff Kendal 0 Comments

Rejoin computer to domain remotely

Jan 9, 2009By Geoff Kendal

From time to time you’ll come across the problem where a system’s machine account in active directory has either become out of sync (Usually due to multiple systems with the same name) or has just been deleted somehow! Telltale signsRead more…

Jan 9, 2009Geoff Kendal 9 comments
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