Tag Archives: Server

Creating Temporary VM Pools for Server O/S’s using RDV_ROLLBACK

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

I had a situation where some users needed a temporary machine, mostly for creating documentation and taking screenshots on a fresh install that hadn’t been modified. I created a desktop pool for some Windows 7 and Windows 8 VM’s and set them …

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Windows Server 2012 Activation Error

Posted by dave on November 7, 2012 No comments

Whilst trying to activate Windows Server 2012 in a VM I kept getting an error: Windows couldn’t be activated Error 0x8007232B DNS Name does not exist This was a bit of an issue, and it was a legitimate version of …

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Retrieving System Information from the Command Line

Posted by dave on September 7, 2012 No comments

Probably doesnt deserve it’s own post, but anyway: c:\>systeminfo Pretty useful.

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 1 comment

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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