Symantec AntiVirus Runtime Error!
Earlier this year, a customer kept getting this error when rebooting: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information. Luckily the fix isn’t too painful… Go to a command prompt and run wbemtest [...]
SQL Server Management Studio Express
Who doesn’t love free? I certainly do. Microsoft has offered a great free version of its flagship database software, MS SQL, for quite some time now. And up until a few years ago it didn’t have a GUI front-end, but Microsoft fixed that with the release of SQL Server Management Studio Express. Now out of [...]
Recursively Add Public Folder Permissions
Last week I found myself having to export (for archival) and remove a large tree of Public Folders. I thought the task would be easy, open Outlook, highlight the top level folder and Export to PST. Little did I know someone changed the top-level permissions of the folder I previously created, removing any admins from [...]
Time Skew and Exchange Services
On a recent Sunday night, I was home watching The Walking Dead, a colleague called to say that our core switch was down in our colo. As he was on vacation, I raced over there, preformed some troubleshooting, finally rebooting our huge Cisco 4510 to bring everything back online, that is except Exchange. The Exchange cluster [...]
Windows 3-Tier Certificate Authority
Many months ago I was tasked with implementing a 3-tier Certificate Authority for a large Windows domain environment. Unfortunately there is surprisingly little information for the nitty-gritty questions one may have. The Microsoft Press book Windows Server® 2008 PKI and Certificate Security proved quite useful, but at times lacking. (This book seems to have been discontinued, [...]
PowerShell: Execution of scripts is disabled
This information is available on many sites, but I’m tired of searching for it every few months when I switch laptops/tablets. Whenever you try to run an unsigned PowerShell script, you get the following message: “File C:\Custom\Test.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for [...]
Fedora 16 Released
If you haven’t used Linux in a while, you should give it a second look. Fedora 16 was unleashed on the computing world yesterday. The latest versions of Fedora, and most modern Linux distributions, have come a long way since the painfully slow and complex installations. Hardware support, especially with the Fedora Project, has been [...]
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