Tag Archives: Server

Cancelling your GoDaddy Packages

Posted by dave on July 11, 2011 No comments

I don’t really know where to start with this. I’m seriously surprised that I have any hair and sanity left after deciding to sign up with GoDaddy. I needed a VPS and the GoDaddy prices and spec seemed to be …

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Windows could not search for new updates, Code 80072EE6

Posted by dave on July 1, 2011 No comments

So today I started work on our new, New Zealand based VPS. We currently have a 2k3 box and are about to roll out a few new sites and so it was time to update to 2k8. As per usual, …

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PHP optimisation in Windows IIS

Posted by dave on February 18, 2011 No comments

Firstly, use the non-thread-safe version of PHP, its more efficient, see here. If you are unsure which version you have, check the very top of phpinfo() Then you can make some slight changes to php that will save some processing …

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Using hMailServer with RoundCube front end (DCOM Errors)

Posted by dave on December 17, 2010 No comments

I installed hMailserver and then installed the RoundCube front end. I then installed a few of the plugins (‘archive’, ‘settings’, ‘userinfo’, ‘emoticons’, ‘markasjunk’, ‘additional_message_headers’, ‘jqueryui’, ‘rss_feeds’, ‘google_contacts’, ‘hmail_password’) but was having an issue with the hmail_password plugin, which was fairly …

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The exchange server address list service failed to respond

Posted by dave on December 3, 2010 No comments

I had an issue when moving and email alias on a user’s account over to a public folder. When I attempted to remove the email address from the user, It kept returning the error “The exchange server address list service …

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Installing Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Posted by dave on December 3, 2010 No comments

I set about installing Lync Server 2010 on a clean Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM the other day. Once all the Windows updates were installed and the DHCP reserve was set, I then loaded a few other bits and pieces …

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Matching Server 2008 w3wp.exe PIDs to Application Pools

Posted by dave on November 10, 2010 No comments

I have a new Windows 2008 Server up in t’ cloud and whilst checking it today, I noticed that memory usage was a bit higher than expected. I have a lot of websites running on this box and each site …

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Defragging Exchange Server 2007

Posted by dave on October 4, 2010 No comments

This weekend I decided to defrag my Exchange box. I hadn’t done it for a while and knew it was overdue. It’s pretty straight forward, dismount the database in the Exchange Management Console, under Server Configuration – Mailbox – satabase …

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You do not have sufficient privileges to delete ‘OU’, or this object is protected from accidental deletion

Posted by dave on July 26, 2010 2 comments

I got this error when trying to delete a ‘test’ OU called ‘x’ from AD the other day: “You do not have sufficient privileges to delete ‘OU’, or this object is protected from accidental deletion” The fix is quite simple, …

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