Matts Admin Tips
Welcome to Matts Admin tips. This blog is full of little fixes, tutorials and work-arounds to those anoying problems that a Systems Administrator might face. If you find something that you have found useful please leave me a comment - I appreciate knowing that I've helped! Also, feel free to leave a comment if my tips or ideas don't work in your environment... I monitor them closely and would be happy to help! Matt
Haven’t posted for a while… here goes. Here is my PowerShell script to deploy multiple vmware virtual machines using a template and a custom specification file. You can use this script to create an unlimited number of VM’s, all with unique computer names and static IP addresses. The following attributes need to be configured for [...]
Strange to see Google put a Scientology ad on the Digg.com site… Doubt there’d be many click-throughs. Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad to support this site
The Office Web Apps installation may fail with an error that suggests Microsoft FilterPack 2.0 – even if you’ve installed the FilterPack with SharePoint 2010. You will find in the setup logs: Either FilterPack 2.0 is not installed or it is not the correct version (minimum requirement – 14.0.4709.1000) Seems that the SharePoint 2010 installation [...]
Tags: Office Web Apps, Sharepoint 2010
SAGE-AU member Matt Shadbolt says its time to move to Microsoft Server 2008 28 April, 2010 16:34 http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/344669/2010_year_move_away_from_2003/ During the second half of 2009 Microsoft released two enterprise products that will be shaping your next three years deployment schedules: Microsoft Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Exchange 2010. These two products mark a milestone in server [...]
Tags: computerworld.com.au, Exchange 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2
There’s a quick and easy way to enable Windows 7′s Taskbar Preview of individual Firefox tabs built into the 3.6 version. Open Firefox and type into the address bar: about:config Agree to the warning. (note: about:config has lots of settings & changing some of them may cause Firefox to break) In the Filter input box [...]
If you receive the following Hyper-V error when starting one of your VM’s on Server 2008 R1, follow the link to the hotfix below. ‘VMSERVER’ could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’(0×80004005). (Virtual machine XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXX) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967902&sd=rss&spid=12925 This hotfix is suggested for all users, not only those affected by the error. Posted by Matt [...]
Tags: (0x80004005), Hyper-V
If you receive the following message when configuring two cisco routers to share routes via RIP v2: RIP: ignored v2 update from bad source 192.168.1.1 Run the no validate-update-source on your rip configuration and the updates will start to work. router rip no validate-update-source Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad [...]
Hi All, I’ve just been given 10 new Google Wave invitations – add a comment below with your email address and I’ll hook you up. Cheers, Mat. Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad to support this site
This error occurs if you have configured the VM’s General Options to be a 32-bit Operating System and booting from a 64-bit Windows Server disk. Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad to support this site
Tags: STOP: 0x0000005D, VMWare
There’s a known issue with Backup Exec 12.5 where tape based brick-level Exchange 2007 backups only display 32 recoverable mailboxes (http://support.veritas.com/docs/315374) This is a massive issue! Recently when trying to recover an archived mailbox, I was shocked to find only 32 mailboxes (out of over 100) available to restore. After some research I found it’s [...]
Tags: 32 mailboxes, Backup Exec 12.5, Symantec
