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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90923106085706217972011-10-10T08:00:20.640+11:00Press ANY key to continue!Striving to apply knowledge, experience, understanding or common sense and insight on Windows, Exchange, SQL and UNIX ......Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-44075993130183028322010-08-31T22:41:00.001+10:002010-08-31T22:41:40.450+10:00Tech-Ed 2010 Free Sessions Online till 25th Sep

If like me you could not attend Tech-Ed in New Orleans then you might want to register for some free sessions that are available online until the 25th Sept. Some of the sessions include tips on upgrading to Exchange 2010, building applications with Silverlight and Sharepoint 2010, Hyper-V's new Dynamic Memory in depth, deploying applications in a virtual environment and more. Some of the

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-79754399049888586302010-08-19T15:09:00.001+10:002011-10-06T21:11:28.032+11:00SQL Transaction log growth whilst in Simple mode

Have you ever wondered why the SQL transaction log continues to grow even though the database is running in Simple recovery mode? I have noticed this a few times before but never really looked into it too much as I have always had the space to allow the log to grow and then reclaim the space later however I was recently working on a VMware Virtual Center instance and had very little disk space so

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-7401375451722547642010-07-27T21:58:00.001+10:002010-07-28T11:59:05.538+10:00Free SQL Server Training available..... at your desk!

I've been doing some downloading, reading and viewing of some great free SQL Server training lately. If you are interested in learning more about SQL server however either don't have the $$$ or the time to attend training then this may be useful for you also. SQL Bits is a SQL Server community group that's been put together by a bunch of talented SQL community members for the benefit of the

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-34706399670864405922010-05-04T22:59:00.002+10:002011-10-06T21:14:23.598+11:00My road to obtaining the VCP on vSphere 4

I passed my VCP 4 exam this week. I have been interested in virtualisation for years however I have not been working as a VMware administrator. I have access to ESX 3.5 with a HA/DRS cluster but I don’t work hands on everyday. Since I work in the Infrastructure area of the Application support team I had good general knowledge of virtualisation and its benefits and effects on application

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-55104524275204190682010-02-19T10:50:00.000+11:002010-02-19T10:50:43.730+11:00Exchange 2010 Documentation/Help available for download

I was just looking for some information on the pre-reading list for Exchange 2010 MCM. According to Greg Taylor the only list is to read the Exchange 2010 help file which is now available for download. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8071C31F-45BE-48DC-BFCA-E1FB51F544D2&displaylang=en

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-20103968490770747392010-01-15T13:49:00.001+11:002010-01-15T13:49:43.925+11:00Microsoft Certification - Second Shot is back till June 30th

Micrsoft and Prometric have been nice enough to bring back Second Shot for the first half of 2010. If you are new to this then what this means is that if you register for second shot before taking your exam you can retake the exam (should you fail the first time) for free as long as you take the first exam and re-take exam before the 30th June, 2010. Second Shot provides a free retake when you

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-57180559098078391552009-10-15T12:16:00.010+11:002009-10-15T12:22:16.239+11:00SAP Backup fails with 'Error message from likeywlib', 'could not load SSF library libsapsecu.so'

When DataProtector attempts to backup SAP 7.0 with Oracle 10g, it fails with the following error messages as seen from a partial session report: HP KB ID # Document ID: emr_na-c00796851-1 BR1301W Error message from likeywlib: ===...could not load SSF library libsapsecu.so . BR1301W Error message from likeywlib: likey_init: Couldn't load SAPSECULIB ("libsapsecu.so") using function SsfSupInit (

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-47361267822250287512009-10-15T12:04:00.001+11:002011-10-06T21:12:36.940+11:00Cluster Disk 0 does not support Persistent Reservation error with Windows 2008 and Symmetrix

This is the second section of dealing with errors running the Windows 2008 cluster validation test with an EMC Symmetrix. The next errors is: - Validate SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation Validate that storage supports the SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation commands. Validating Cluster Disk 0 for Persistent Reservation support Registering PR key for cluster disk 0 from node servername.domain.com Failed to

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-7391921478633707902009-10-10T11:14:00.002+11:002011-10-06T21:13:27.140+11:00MPIO errors, Windows 2008 cluster validation test failing and EMC Symmetrix

If you have ever tried to configure a Windows 2008 cluster using an EMC Symmetrix then you have probably come across this issue. If not then you might want to read on. Windows 2008 uses Persistent SCSI reservations. The SCSI Reserve command and the SCSI Persistent Reserve command are specified by the SCSI standards. Servers can use these commands to prevent HBA ports in other servers from

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-17395384187039497652009-10-08T22:25:00.002+11:002009-10-08T22:26:47.880+11:00How to Create an ODBC Connection for 32-bit application on 64-bit Windows

Just a reminder post really. Had a colleague today that was installing a 32-bit application on Windows 2008 x64 that required an ODBC connection. The trouble with this is that the default ODBC (Data Sources) under Administrative Tools opens the 64-bit driver version of the ODBC tool. Therefore even though he had created the connections correctly the 32-bit application could not see them. To make

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-58270381281727775772009-06-28T16:42:00.003+10:002009-10-07T21:55:25.473+11:00Passed 71-680 officially MCTS: Windows 7, Configuration

I registered and completed the beta exam 71-680 for the Windows 7 configuration certification on the 18th May. When I completed the exam I was quite confident that I had passed but as you may know when you take a beta exam it can take quite some time to be notified of your pass/fail status.MS officially let me know this weekend that I had passed the exam. For those of you considering taking the

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-14779420568794957912009-05-19T21:12:00.006+10:002009-05-19T21:24:00.746+10:00Service Pack 2 set to deliver Exchange 2007 backup plug in

In what was a surprise for me Microsoft have announced one of the new features with Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2007 will be a plug-in to allow out of the box backup support for Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008. I was surprised as so far all the technical documentation for Exchange 2010 also points to no native support for backing up Exchange 2010 so I thought the chances of them adding this

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-48182177181422032632009-04-17T15:40:00.001+10:002009-04-17T15:42:41.705+10:00How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Beta post with screen shots by Scott Schnoll

Scott has been good enough to produce a blog post on installaing Exchange 2010 Beta with screen shots.How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Betahttp://blogs.technet.com/scottschnoll/archive/2009/04/15/how-to-install-exchange-server-2010.aspx

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-69639802340264552272009-04-16T20:32:00.002+10:002009-04-16T20:38:49.292+10:00Microsoft release Exchange 2010 Beta to public

I was amazed to see today that the public beta of Exchange 2010 is already available. I must be getting old but it just doesn't seem long enough since the release of Exchange 2007 to be having to start boning up on a new release.Anyway there is plenty of information to start with at the following links: -Exchange Server 2010 Forumhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-59944636126772102032009-04-09T13:36:00.007+10:002009-10-07T21:56:44.235+11:00How to Verify Oracle Client Version

I had an ORA-600 error occur on a production SAP BW 3.5/Oracle 10.2.0.4 this week. During the investigation with SAP support I was asked to confirm that I was running Oracle client 9208 or above.Now that seemed pretty straight forward enough however when I actually went to verify it and show the information to the SAP support personnel I was stuck. How do I verify the client? I know that I can

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-5536343433497163532008-12-03T20:48:00.003+11:002008-12-03T20:53:59.519+11:00Viewing Dual Time zones in Outlook Calendar

If you are like me and work for a global company then you probably find yourself needing to know what time it is on the other side of the world for booking meetings and generally knowing who is available.I found this tip very handy that allows you to add an additional time zone to your Outlook calendar when using the Work Week, Day or Today options. In order to enable this select Calendar > above

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-88791881639530896112008-11-15T13:45:00.021+11:002011-10-06T21:15:08.328+11:00Enabling High Availability for Central Administration Site

We have a large MOSS farm in production with multiple web front end, app servers and a clustered SQL server. The one single point of failure we had was the Central Administration site via a single web front end server. These steps allow you to publish the CA to an App server or other Web servers so that the CA site has High Availability. Please note I don't know if this is officially supported by

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-20500830485056375562008-11-14T08:54:00.012+11:002009-10-09T11:09:33.904+11:00Export to Spreadsheet Error The [column name] is a read only column that cannot be modified

Its been a couple of weeks of Sharepoint issues for me. One of my SP developers came to us this week with an error when they export lists to Excel for updating. When selecting Actions > Export to Spreadsheet on the list if they try to enter data in any cell they received the following error. We could Edit in Datasheet view without any issue so permissions did not seem to be the issue. This

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-57159448717580617772008-07-17T14:01:00.001+10:002008-07-17T14:08:56.789+10:00Video: Debugging a Windows Blue Screen of Death

Just came across this video today. Daniel talks about why BSOD (Blue screen of death) occur and shows a real world debugging example showing how to diagnose and debug issues. It's a good addition to my other blogs on Windows troubleshooting.http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Daniel-Pearson-Debugging-a-Windows-Blue-Screen-of-Death/

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-5845018910260352912008-07-10T14:46:00.009+10:002011-10-06T21:18:53.509+11:00Windows System Hang Troubleshooting – Bits and pieces

In a follow up to a previous blog about analyzing a blue screen of death I thought I would add some tips ideas about troubleshooting a hanging Windows system. So what do you do when a Windows system hangs? Well let’s be honest. Normally a reboot will fix this. However what do you do if the reboot is only a temporary solution? This post has moved - http://iunite.com.au/wp/blog/index.php/2011/09/

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-3927109655385157102008-07-09T13:19:00.003+10:002008-07-09T13:25:29.721+10:00Cannot open Local or Group Security Policy Console

A colleague of mine just had an issue that I thought might be worth posting about as I could not find an MS article for the fix. We had a request to change the LAN Manager Authentication Level set to Send LM and NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated - (default) send LM & NTLM responses setting.However, when navigating to Security Options under Local Computer Policy >Windows Settings >

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-69546749187476565692008-04-04T22:34:00.003+11:002008-04-04T22:36:59.332+11:00Public Folders not Dead Yet

Public folders it seems have had a reprieve. As most of you probably know public folders were being deemphasized in Exchange 2007 and the official line was that MS may not support public folders in the next Exchange release. It now seems that MS have had a change of heart and will continue to fully support public folders in the next release of Exchange and therefore they will be around for quite

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-55213022667684392612008-02-22T22:33:00.005+11:002008-02-22T22:38:22.235+11:00Number of named properties reached the quota limit (10026) – Event ID 9667

I came across this question on one of the forums and found that it was not documented in many places. As a result I though posting it here may help someone else in the future.Event ID: 9667Failed to create a new named property for database "Storage Group1\General (TDEX01)" because the number of named properties reached the quota limit (10026). User attempting to create the named property: "

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-953982241543214142008-02-21T18:36:00.002+11:002008-02-21T18:38:55.059+11:00Disabled mailbox not visible in Disconnected mailbox area

Recently I have seen many posts in forums where people have disconnected an Exchange 2007 mailbox via the EMC and then noticed that the disconnected mailbox did not appear in the EMC Disconnected mailbox area.I have been searching for causes of this issue and so far have not found one. Although all the MS documentation states that disconnected mailboxes will appear in the disconnected mailbox

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-36423330654059753232008-01-17T00:09:00.000+11:002008-01-17T00:12:25.571+11:00Issues with Delegates in a Mixed Outlook 2007 Environment

I was working on an issue that was raised in one of the technical forums recently involving strange behaviour with the delegates feature in a mixed Outlook 2007 and earlier Outlook versions environment.In previous versions of Outlook the delegate option was compatible between versions. For example a manager could run Outlook 2003 whilst their delegate could run Outlook 2002 and everything

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-13590295853160168862008-01-16T19:41:00.000+11:002008-01-16T19:44:31.430+11:00Assign Permissions to view non-default Outlook folders

I often see requests that require them to share the contents of particular folders in their Outlook folder list that are not necessarily part of the “Default” folders that can be delegated via the Outlook delegates option. The default folder include the Calendar, Inbox, Tasks, Contacts, Notes and Journal. If you need to share these folders then all you need to do is assign the group/user as a

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-43009518362508146102007-12-20T19:57:00.000+11:002007-12-20T20:04:49.103+11:00Document Conversions Launcher Service is stuck on starting

If the Document Conversions Launcher Service is stuck on starting you should be able to fix this via the following steps: -1. You must log in with moss admin account before running these commands in a DOS window. Execute this commandCd %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\bin2. Execute this command:STSADM.EXE -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype "

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-9674844264102522152007-12-20T19:39:00.000+11:002007-12-20T19:42:27.167+11:00LoadBalancer.RegisterLauncher failed error - MOSS 2007

I have been working on a MOSS Sharepoint 2007 server farm installation this week and came across this error that there seemed to be very little information on.Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Office SharePoint ServerEvent Category: Launcher ServiceEvent ID: 6102Date: 12/20/2007Time: 7:19:16 PMUser: N/AComputer: MOSSSERVER1Description:LoadBalancer.RegisterLauncher failed: Unable to connect to the

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-84039788038119992542007-12-14T14:59:00.000+11:002007-12-14T15:11:26.883+11:00Exchange 2003 running out of transaction logs

This issue cropped up for me in one of our sites in Europe this week so I thought this might be worth posting. Exchange transaction log files are automatically created once the storage group and database is mounted. As the current log file E00.log reaches its limit (5MB for pre-Exchange 2007 and 1MB for Exchange 2007) the file is renamed with a sequential hexadecimal number that allows the log

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-28772553369032770862007-12-14T13:56:00.001+11:002011-10-06T21:17:16.310+11:00Analyse a Windows Blue Screen of Death!

Have you ever suffered a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? If you have like me then you’ll probably also know that if you are lucky it was a one off occurrence but what do you do if it keeps happening and you need to figure our why? This post has moved - http://iunite.com.au/wp/blog/index.php/2011/09/analyse-a-windows-blue-screen-of-death/

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-57189454936494599742007-12-12T22:23:00.001+11:002011-10-06T21:16:12.479+11:00How to use Subinacl.exe to assign permissions to manage services

Have you ever had a request or need to assign non-admin users permissions to start, stop or query service status on your servers? I certainly have and what I found was that it was quite difficult to find clear information on how to complete this task. In the article I shall try to explain this clearly. This post has moved - http://iunite.com.au/wp/blog/index.php/2011/09/

Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758505046887626195noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092310608570621797.post-22210827924711015492007-12-12T22:18:00.000+11:002007-12-12T22:22:21.158+11:00Welcome

Hi,I have decided to start a blog. It seems like everyone is doing it! I'm not sure how often I'll think of something worth posting but I am hoping that I can use this site to provide useful technical information for the benefit of others. If you have any suggestions please let me know.Thanks for taking the time to visit.

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