Anyone who has ever installed Exchange Server 2000 on a Windows 2000 Domain Controller will tell you that it can be a real pain in the rump when something goes wrong. You see, the SMTP service, Exchange services, DNS service and active directory services are all intertwined like grandma’s spaghetti on your dinner plate (sans [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Servers’
Active Directory, Domain Controller and DNS
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Network, Servers on April 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
System repair in less than an hour
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Servers on August 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I truly love Norton’s Ghost 2003!
My laptop was behaving strangely this evening – applications
were spontaneously hanging, system was freezing when logging out, etc. A
closer look at my Windows XP event log told me that STISVC.EXE (still
imaging service) was failing to start, and a whole load of errors were
reported about the COM+ subsystem. Uh-oh!
So, I [...]
Server running again (for now)
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Servers on August 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I spent another late night in the server room last night, working on my
crippled server (see yesterday’s post), but I think I have resolved the
issue.
The problem has to be hardware related because a reinstall of a
previous working Ghost image was experiencing the same “hanging”
symptoms as before, but yet my server worked great in safe mode [...]
Server Problems
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Servers on August 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This is technically a rant, but it is also software related, so I have posted my woes here….
I ran into problems with one of my Windows 2003 servers
yesterday. It all started when I had connected remotely (via RDP)
from the office and installed the latest Microsoft updates. The
upgrade went smoothly, but after a reboot I was [...]
Migrate Physical Server to Virtual Server
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Servers on December 1, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Virtual PC is simply great. No more desks cluttered with expensive (sometimes crappy inexpensive) PCs for the purpose of testing applications on multiple platforms. What if an application runs great in all test environments but not on a particular live server? The last thing you really want to do is to install debug build software on [...]
