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…
Unsolicited Remote Assistance and UAC
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…
Problem starting Hyper-V VM on CSV cluster node
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…
iPhone remote wipe via Exchange
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…
Setting the default domain in Exchange 2010 OWA
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…
Windows SIM unable to generate catalog
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…
Stop media player being pinned to windows 7 taskbar
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…
Lotus Notes And Vista Virtual Store
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…
Altiris inventory solution not logging all exes
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…
Rejoin computer to domain remotely
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…