For the last day or so, we’ve been working on rolling out the next release of our code to our QA environment. When it came time to build a new set of solutions I stumbled across a weird validation error.

An error occurred while validating.  HRESULT=80004005

This error popped up on the setup applications for [...]

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Part of our move was including the building of the new DR environment. Like most people, we cheated, and cloned the production servers to the new environment. One issue was host naming changes. In our DR environment, the host names change due to the location, and roll of the servers. This [...]

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Due to some unforeseen issues, we had to move our RAS server into a new DHCP scope, and VLAN today. This is usually relatively easy…

Change Server IP Change switch port VLANs Change firewall to point to new server

This went smoothly, all being completed in about 2 minutes. But on checking the DHCP scope, the RAS [...]

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With Windows 2008, the task scheduler is setup differently than earlier. You can use the Com object Schedule.Service to access information about tasks.

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Windows 2008 doesn’t have SMTP as part of IIS any more. It’s only kept around by shipping the IIS 6 libraries with it, which means it’s managed by the old IIS 6 utilities. We installed SMTP so that our web servers had a relaying agent so if there were any delays talking to [...]

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I have an awful memory, so this is more a bookmark for me than anything. Whilst running home grown scripts for PowerShell, you often see the following error:

File C:\scripts\test.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get- help about_signing” for more details. At line:1 char:19 + c:\scripts\test.ps1 <

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Whilst doing the datacenter migration, we decided to upgrade all of our servers at the same time.  It was less of a migration, and more of a new install, new location.  We upgraded from Windows 2003 x86 platforms, to Windows 2008 x64 platforms.  During the migration, we’ve stumbled across some issues…

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Back in January, Microsoft announced a new project called Tag at CES.  In Microsoft’s words, Tag is: Microsoft Tag is a marketing solution that enables consumers to access and share useful and fun content in a simple way. It also helps marketers engage with consumers in meaningful and creative ways, and [...]

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One of the things I’ve been working on is migrating our equipment over to the corporate domain off of our domain.  For the most part, this has been relatively easy, and given me some changes to fix some things I’ve wanted to get to, but not had time to. One of the stumbling blocks was [...]

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Apparently the folks at Microsoft get bored from time to time, and knock out small handy tools, but never really announce them to the world.  Here is one called “RichCopy”.  Mentioned on the TechNet magazine this month, the name hints at what it is… An improved copy/move utility, with lots of options.  The cool one [...]

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