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Sorry about that

small service outage lastnight / this morning .. .My server Blue Screened, rebooted and was waiting at the good olde Windows Shutdown Event Tracker screen. So cleared that and then my blog vm has the same so sorted that two. Found this blog, so the damm Read More...

Posted: 11 July 2008 09:28 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments

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Task Manager: Connect / Remote Control

Sarad showed me this and I have been using it ever since. When we upgraded to Exchange 2007 to Service Pack 1, I RDPed to the server to perform the upgrade. I knew it would take an age on an SCC mailbox cluster, and I didn't want to wait around in the Read More...

Posted: 04 April 2008 12:53 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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Hardcoding an AD Site

Paul sent me this so I could put an Exchange server in to a Lag AD site. It is very cool! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/55956.mspx?mfr=true Create the following reg key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters Read More...

Posted: 27 February 2008 13:28 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

Filed under: MsExchange, Flaphead, Windows

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What is the Page File for anyway?

Every day is a school day, and this make some light reading for a Monday Morning. Time to start up perfmon on my Exchange Mailbox Cluster Source: http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/12/14/what-is-the-page-file-for-anyway.aspx ... So, in simplistic Read More...

Posted: 17 December 2007 09:48 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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Elonex eXentia & Vista Hotfixes

So Microsoft release two Vista hotfixes last week. An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979 An update is available that improves the compatibility and reliability of Read More...

Posted: 12 August 2007 19:42 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments

Filed under: Flaphead, Windows, MediaCentre, Vista

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Active Directory Explorer v1.0

Ohh this looks like a nice replacement for adsiedit Source: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/adexplorer.mspx Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer Read More...

Posted: 26 July 2007 12:45 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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Yet anOther Desktop Manager 3D

Jane bloged this last week ( http://blogs.technet.com/janelewis/archive/2007/05/18/yet-another-desk-top-manager-3d-cool.aspx ) it is a very sweet desktop manager and makes things look a bit more like OS X You can download it from here ( http://chsalmon.club.fr/index.php?en/Download Read More...

Posted: 21 May 2007 09:22 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

Filed under: Flaphead, Windows, Vista

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Copying Large Files

This is an interesting post from the performance team blog ... bottom line, if your copying a really large file use eseutil. yup that's right, eseutil!!! http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/05/08/slow-large-file-copy-issues.aspx Read More...

Posted: 08 May 2007 18:09 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments

Filed under: MsExchange, Flaphead, Windows

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Tip of the Day: Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

This is a neat trick that Matt showed me today. I installed a based build OS with Windows 2003 R2 and SP2 on it. Then started my exchange install and forgot about IIS. So I go an install IIS and it asked for the SP2 disk. Damm, where did I put that. Matt Read More...

Posted: 03 May 2007 14:06 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

Filed under: MsExchange, Flaphead, Windows

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Creating an AD Shell

Ben you are the dogs whatits. This is just an awesome post on how to 1) Make ad admin simpler and 2) How to create your own pseudo-cmdlets. http://blogs.technet.com/benp/archive/2007/04/10/creating-an-ad-shell.aspx Now tie that in with some of Dmitry’s Read More...

Posted: 11 April 2007 18:50 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

Filed under: Flaphead, Windows, PowerShell

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Leaving Drink or two

So I would just like to thank Simon, Chris, Iain, Sam, Neil and Keith for getting the beers in tonight! You might not think it but it means a lot to me. thanks guys bans see you soon Read More...

Posted: 03 April 2007 21:14 by Paul Flaherty | 3 Comments

Filed under: Food & Drink, Flaphead, Windows

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How to Interpret Windows Installer Logs

What richard says is true! This man knows what he blogs! Source: http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/04/02/How-to-Interpret-Windows-Installer-Logs.aspx If you have a problem with the Windows Installer or an MSI package you're installing, Read More...

Posted: 03 April 2007 21:02 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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Window Server 2003 SP2 Standalone ISO-9660 CD Image File on the Download Center

So I'm creating 3 Windows 2003 VPC's today and windows update told me I needed SP2. As usual every day is a school day, and I didn't know that Microsoft provided an ISO of SP2 (x86 and x64), which is very handy when creating virtual machines! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sp2.msp Read More...

Posted: 03 April 2007 14:21 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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College uses Vista to save power

I saw this in computing magazine and wantted to share it. so vista does have some good points! Source: http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2186708/college-uses-vista-save-power Bockenhurst College is installing the Microsoft Vista operating system Read More...

Posted: 01 April 2007 16:47 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

Filed under: Flaphead, Windows, Environment

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Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

Now this could be an issue that the PowerShell guys have shared .... its good to talk! Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/03/19/windows-server-2003-sp2-upgrade.aspx Because of the nature of the Windows Service pack (SP) releases, all Read More...

Posted: 27 March 2007 13:39 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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WMIC

I am playing virtual tennis with Shawn today and he scored his first point with this (the game is at 15-40) In the past I have used ScriptomaticV2 or wbemtest to test WMI or get vbscript to dump WMI data. Shawn showed me WMIC and I am very impressed. Read More...

Posted: 27 March 2007 12:57 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments

Filed under: MsExchange, Flaphead, Windows, PowerShell

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Vista .. Where is all my Space Gone?

I have noticed that I am "loosing" disk space and couldn't for the life of me work out why. So after some major ranting, Shawn shut me up with treesize free . For some reason windows\ServiceProfiles\AppData\Local\Temp\TfsStore\Tfs_DAV has nearly 5gb of Read More...

Posted: 22 March 2007 17:54 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments

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London Underground Tube News v1.1

I have updated my Tube Gadget so it works with the new TFL website. You can get it here: http://gallery.live.com/LiveItemDetail.aspx?li=16b8a96d-021e-41a1-bc59-cf6d769c423e Let me know what you think and/or of you have any isssues Read More...

Posted: 22 March 2007 15:11 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

Filed under: Gadgets, Flaphead, Windows

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Purchasing additional Windows Vista licenses

Is this REALLY worth it ... 10% off! ... < http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/03/20/purchasing-additional-windows-vista-licenses.aspx > For customers who acquired a full or upgrade version of Windows Vista from retail or Read More...

Posted: 22 March 2007 12:21 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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(Virtually) Everything you need to know about Microsoft Virtualisation Technologies

Richard posted this the other day. Check it out, it has load of interesting links. Source: http://blogs.technet.com:80/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/03/12/Virtually-Everything-About-Microsoft-Virtualisation-Technologies.aspx For a recent customer presentation Read More...

Posted: 16 March 2007 11:30 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments

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Certain Windows Server 2003 hotfixes have been repackaged to be compatible with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Nooooooooooooooooo Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932132 This article lists the hotfixes that have been repackaged to make them compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Certain hotfixes have been repackaged to replace Read More...

Posted: 14 March 2007 20:09 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments

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