Sysinternals
If you’re in IT working with Windows and haven’t heard of Sysinternals, you may want to check to see if you’ve been living under a rock. Sysinternals started as the community or free arm of Winternals, the money making portion of the company. Microsoft purchased Winternals back in 2006 for its IP and brain-trust. Mark [...]
Exchange Server Address List Service Failed
While creating a new user mailbox on an Exchange 2007 server a few moons ago, I received an error stating: “Exchange server address list service failed to respond“, obviously stopping my creation task in its tracks. This function is apparently one of the many that fall under the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant Service, once this [...]
MAPI32.DLL wrong version or corrupt
One of my clients recieved the error message “MAPI32.DLL wrong version or corrupt“ a few months ago, after trying Outlook 2007 and reverting back to Outlook 2003. The fix was simpler than expected… With Outlook closed, browse on over to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033 and rename the MSMAPI32.DLL file. Open Outlook again and the MSMAPI32.DLL file will be replaced with [...]
WMIC to the Rescue
A recent project had me trying to script the retrieval of the Dell Service Tag. Luckily there’s WMI Command-line to the rescue. From a command line or in a script wmic bios get serialnumber will display or grab the Dell Service Tag. Furthermore, you can use the WMI Command-line to retrieve all kinds of system data and even make [...]
Outlook Links Don’t Work
One of my customers recently had an issue with broken links in all his Outlook e-mail. Any link that was present in the body or subject would not work, only giving the cryptic message: “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.” Turned out to be an issue with an [...]
Where the 32-bit Programs Hide in the Registry
Trying to increase the speed of a Windows system typically involves disabling Services, removing items from the Startup menu and deleting Registry entries under Run, in both the Current User and Local Machine trees. The latter bit is what was missing when working on 64-bit systems. After noticing that the pesky Acrobat Speed Launcher and [...]
Exchange 2003 RPC over HTTPS – Easy
If you remember way back in September of 2003, (I don’t, had to look up the date), a new version of Exchange Server was released with a new and really cool feature, RPC over HTTPS. This allowed for use of Outlook outside the company’s network without the need for VPN. What a huge boon for [...]
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