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Document is locked for editing on a Sharepoint farm

Published on 23/06/2010 By admin

Suddenly out of the blue we where confronted with document locking on our Sharepoint farm. Starting to have a look at the event log, and then the Sharepoint log files. mmmm Nothing wrong with that. Checking the SQL server belonging to the farm al log files clear. I decided to put some search sentences using [...]

Instant Message(IM) channel setup for SCOM2007R2

Published on 21/05/2010 By admin

It has been a struggle to get this working. After reading SCOM2007 UNLEASHED and a lot of “googeling” reading a lot of post information its finally working.After the setup of my IM-Channel and subscribers I was confronted with the following message: Alert: Failed to send notification using server/deviceSource: Microsoft.SystemCenter.NotificationServerPath: pscm01.contoso.comLast modified by: SystemLast modified time: [...]

Windows Time-service configuration

Published on 23/03/2010 By admin

Still having problems using w32time service. Well that’s history using the settings below. Choose your ntp server internal or external http://www.pool.ntp.org/ Copy and paste it in notepad and save as *.reg file. Merge it into the registry and restart your w32time service. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Parameters]“Type”=”NTP”“NtpServer”=”nl.pool.ntp.org,0×1″ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Config]“AnnounceFlags”=dword:00000005 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer]“Enabled”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient]“SpecialPollInterval”=dword:00000384 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Config]“MaxNegPhaseCorrection”=dword:00000e10“MaxPosPhaseCorrection”=dword:00000e10 Open the command [...]

ForeFront Server and Client.

Published on 28/01/2010 By admin

Forefront is based on 32bits platform, so keeping that in mind. I’m using Windows2008 Datacenter (x86) as OS. Disk space about 60 GB. Activated the following “Roles and Features”: Roles: Application server, Webserver(Application server foundation,web server support also IIS6) Features: .Net Framework 3.0 Features, Group Policy Management,Remote server Administration Tools, Windows Proces Activation Service. Apply [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Injecting drivers into Windows 7 and WIndows 2008R2

Published on 02/10/2009 By jewe

The final part about this item. First of all we need the "Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7" after installing the Kit I added the directory "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\Servicing" to the system variables path variable. Before we are to inject some stuff. We have to export a image, so right click on your [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Capture a Windows 7 Image

Published on 29/09/2009 By jewe

Well guys it took me a lot of time (and google sessions) to solve this issue. Having installed the Windows 7 OS and installed the complete office surrounding including additional software. After all this work started windows update so the machine is updated to the latest versions. So far so good. mmmmm now the trouble [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Creating the capture image.

Published on 08/09/2009 By jewe

Inside WDS you have to go to the boot images. Select the appropriate one and right click on it. Choose "create capture boot image", enter your image name and description and the location were to store the capture.wim file. Click on next and wait a while. When completed click on finish. Adding the capture image [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – The Basics

Published on 04/09/2009 By jewe

First of all you have to install the appropriate "Role" on your Windows 2008 server. After installing I would say reboot your machine. Now the nice part starts, collect your operating systems which has to be distributed. I used VirtualCloneDrive to mount the DVD. Now you can mount the iso image including your OS, Copy [...]

Could not start Software Licensing service on Local Computer

Published on 29/06/2009 By jewe

A Windows 2008 server (same for Vista), after Windows update and reboot returns in a activation lock assuming the machine is running without a licence. After starting it up in save mode, and then starting it up in the "normal" mode. I was able to login as a local admin. Take a look on the [...]

Migrating IIS7 Site Settings

Published on 20/05/2009 By jewe

In IIS 5 and 6, you could export Site configuration settings and import them back on another machine making server migration very easy. When IIS 7 came along, we lost that command in the IIS Manager. Fortunately, there is now a new set of command lines that can do almost the same thing. Export the [...]