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Hyper-V ‘Unspecified error’(0×80004005)

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.
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RIP: ignored v2 update from bad source

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
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Google Wave Invites

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.
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VMWare STOP: 0×0000005D

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.
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Backup Exec Exchange Restore Only Displays 32 Mailboxes

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 a [...]

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Get This 2007 Episodes

I’ve finally posted the full 2007 season of Get This.
How good is this?
http://mattlog.net/get-this-2007-episodes-01-99/
http://mattlog.net/get-this-2007-episodes-100-187/
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MSExchangeIS Error 9646

Mapi session “/o=DOMAIN/ou=first administrative group/cn=Recipients/cn=username” exceeded the maximum of 500 objects of type “objtFolderView”.
This error is caused by the Outlook 2007 Cached Exchange mode setting “Download shared folders (excludes mail folders) being enabled by default. You can untick this box manually on each client (Tools > Account Settings > Change > More Settings > Advanced) [...]

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Get This 2006 Episodes

I’ve just posted all episodes of Get This from 2006.
You can download them from:
http://mattlog.net/get-this-2006-episodes-01-99/
http://mattlog.net/get-this-2006-episodes-100-171/
I’ll be posting the 2007 episodes next week.
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Windows Storage Server 2008 Default Password

Strangely, Microsoft apply a default password to all Windows Storage Server 2008 products – and without downloading all of the TechNet documentation you aren’t told the password!
Well, thanks to Quantum John the password is:
wSS2008!
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Firefox 3.5 Some JavaScript doesn’t load

Had a strange issue today where my Gmail themes and Digg.com login/comments weren’t loading properly. It was only happening on my local machine, and loading those pages up in IE worked fine. The issue was obviously with my FF profile.
After some digging around with my Firefox profile, and manually removing lines from the prefs.js (I [...]

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