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September, 2009  // Posts published in September, 2009

12 Sep Posted by tim in SCOM | Comments

Understanding Agent States and Colors

Understanding Agent States and Colors

In SCOM 2007 an agent can have one of the following states: Green Tick – Agent is “Healthy” Red Tick - Agent has a problem and is “Critical” Gray Tick - Unknown Problem The health service watcher on the root management server (RMS) that is watching the health service on the monitored computer is not...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in General | Comments

Learn Windows 7

Learn Windows 7

Time to learn yet another Operating System, another Windows version is around the corner – but do you have time to learn Microsoft Windows 7? For the considerable majority of people using Windows, you pretty much are in one of 2 camps right at the moment. You use Windows XP, or you use Microsoft Windows...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in Error Codes | Comments

Windows Error Code 7

Windows Error Code 7

The symptoms include the error message ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. Followed by a Windows error code 7 Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. If Windows automatically detects the CD-ROM, click Install Windows to start the Windows XP Setup Wizard. If Windows does not automatically detect the CD-ROM, click Start,...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in Libraries | Comments

How to use a Network Drive in a Windows 7 Library

How to use a Network Drive in a Windows 7 Library

Windows 7 by default does not allow you to include network drives in a library. This is because folders must be indexed first in order to be added to a library, and network drives cannot be indexed unless they are synchronized. There are 2 solutions to this problem. The first solution: Synchronize the Network Drive....

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05 Sep Posted by tim in Installing | 1 comment

How you can Install Windows 7 from a USB Flash Drive

How you can Install Windows 7 from a USB Flash Drive

1. Get a USB Flash Drive and format it using the FAT 32 Filesystem. You can do this from the Disk Management Console from within Windows or you can use the command prompt. If you like the command line then you can use these steps: 1. diskpart 2. select disk 1 (or whatever number it...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in Internet Explorer | Comments

How to Start IE8 in inPrivate Mode

How to Start IE8 in inPrivate Mode

The inPrivate mode of IE8 is great as it prevents IE from logging all of the browsing history on your PC. Wouldn’t it be cool though, to be able to start IE8 in the inPrivate mode? Well you can and it’s very easy. Simply click “Start” and type: iexplore -private and hit enter. If you want...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in General | Comments

Goodbye Windows XP, Hello Windows 7

Goodbye Windows XP, Hello Windows 7

It’s pretty obvious that Microsoft have wanted to get rid of Windows XP and move users over to Windows Vista. The problem is that Vista wasn’t the Operating System Microsoft had hoped it would be. The lack of stable drivers and the lack of speed meant very early on that Windows Vista was going to...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in Hyper-V | Comments

There is already an SSL certificate associated with port 443 on machine xxx.xxx.com.

There is already an SSL certificate associated with port 443 on machine xxx.xxx.com.

When using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) you receive the following error when attempting a P2V Conversion. There is already an SSL certificate associated with port 443 on machine xxx.xx.com. Firstly ensure that no application on machine xxx.xxx.com listens for HTTP traffic on TCP port 443 during the conversion. Alternatively use registry...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in DHCP | 1 comment

The DHCP Service could not contact Active Directory

The DHCP Service could not contact Active Directory

When attempting to Authorize a DHCP Server in your Domain you receive the error message: The DHCP Service could not contact Active Directory. This is a result of you not having permission to access the Active Directory Configuration Container. Check that you are logged on using a Domain Account and not a local account, or...

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05 Sep Posted by tim in Hyper-V | Comments

Hyper-V Capable Intel XEON CPU's

Hyper-V Capable Intel XEON CPU's

Hyper-V requires you to have Hardware Assisted Virtualization (VT) support in your CPU, here’s a list of the Intel XEON CPU’s that have this feature. Speed CPU # Cores Bus Speed Mfg Tech Stepping Cache Package 3.73 GHz 5080 2 1066 MHz 65 nm C1 4 MB LGA771 3.50 GHz X5270 2 1333 MHz 45...

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