MS - Windows
Posted Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:15 by MWalker
Recently had to verify version numbers of Microsoft Office on numerous systems. Of course I hope to automate the process, but the starting point is to find out what all the various version numbers are. I compiled this table from the various KB articles into a single page for reference.
Posted Wed, 08/03/2011 - 07:34 by MWalker
On two new 2008R2 Servers I noticed an error similar to:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMI
Date: 1/18/2008 2:37:27 PM
Event ID: 10
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
Posted Wed, 08/03/2011 - 07:27 by MWalker
The DNS Server Event Log was throwing the Event ID: 4007 error for "domain.com" and "_msdcs.domain.com". When I investigated it seemed to be throwing it for an old AD integrated domain that was no longer in use. I was not the original creator of the environment, but was just trying to create some good clean living.
Posted Mon, 05/23/2011 - 14:59 by MWalker
I had a very strange issue where my VMware Workstation would not open any VM I had or after I used the wizard to create one, it would just hang. I would click "open", browse, select and ... nothing. No errors in the event viewer or in the local file directories.
Posted Fri, 05/20/2011 - 11:03 by MWalker
I needed to build several virtual XP systems to test with the LSI SAS controller option in vmware. Below is a summary of how I was able to create an XP install media with the drivers as part of the media so I wouldn't have to remember to push F6 when the install process starts. Windows will not see a harddrive to install into without loading additional drivers.
Posted Fri, 04/01/2011 - 13:26 by MWalker
Recently I had to build a replacement VMware vSphere vCenter server. I did the usual 2008 R2 OS install and updates, installed some prerequisites and tools. However when I went to install vCenter, I received the following error:
"Cannot create vCenter server Directory Services instance"
Posted Wed, 03/23/2011 - 14:28 by MWalker
My goal was to extract appointment info from an Exchange Public Calendar to be displayed on an intranet site. This can be accomplished using the Exchange Web Services. Microsoft has examples using C# and the EWS API to access the data. Also you can use Perl or PHP module code contributed by the communities to extract this. I chose to go the PHP route vs.
Posted Wed, 03/23/2011 - 08:17 by MWalker
The Windows Server 2003 x64 workstation I was using for the vSphere 4.1 client recently stopped working. Was working fine for quite awhile, but recently I had installed and demo'd a few various software packages. I tried the usual uninstall and reinstall without success.
Posted Tue, 03/08/2011 - 15:25 by MWalker
In a lab environment, we run a Microsoft KMS server. We had built out an initial group of clients to meet the 25 minimum for KMS. Time passed and some engineers built out another group of clients, but everytime a client attempted to activate:
0xC004F038
Posted Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:46 by MWalker
I was trying to hash a few various scripts together into one powershell script and have it email some output to me when it completed. I would then schedule the script to do a daily report. All seemed to work fine until I added the email code part. My code was like:
