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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/ Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad to support this site

Tags: Get This 2007

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 > [...]

Tags: MAPI, objtFolderView, Outlook 2007

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. Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad to support this site

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! Posted by Matt Shadbolt http://mattlog.net Please comment or click an ad to support this site

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 [...]

Tags: Firefox 3.5, general.useragent.override

MSSQL 2008 Error 3241: RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally

While trying to restore a MSSQL 2008 .BAK file to a staging server, I received the following error: The media family on device ‘C:\database_backup.bak’ is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family. RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3241) This is actually an easy error to fix! The problem is [...]

Microsoft Training

I’m finally completing my MCSE certification with one exam to go, and I thought I’d quickly post on a great online training site that I’ve found. Unfortunately I didn’t know about this site until recently, so I’m only using it for the one exam (70-294). http://www.vtc.com For only $30 per month, you get full access [...]

Tags: MCSE, Microsoft Training

IIS LogParser – Hits in last 7 Days

Here’s a LogParser query I’ve written that will output the top hits for your website within the last 7 days. All you need to do is change the path of the log file location: SELECT  COUNT(*) AS Hits, cs-uri-stem AS Page FROM D:\LogFilePat*.* WHERE TO_DATE(Date) >= TO_DATE(SUB(SYSTEM_TIMESTAMP(), TO_TIMESTAMP(’01-07′, ‘MM-dd’))) GROUP BY cs-uri-stem ORDER BY Hits [...]

Tags: Hits last 7 days, LogParser

SQL Server Management Studio 2008 with SQL Server 2005

I’ve been having some issues with my maintenance plans in SQL Server 2005. I’ve been using the newer 2008 Server Management Studio to manage my SQL servers and it didn’t occur to me that the newer version would break my maintenance plans. When I modify the plans in 2005 Management Studio I receive the following [...]

Tags: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Management Studio 2008

Output Exchange 2007 Retry/Ready Messages

Here’s a quick and dirty Exchange 2007 command-let that will output all the outgoing emails that are not being delivered. It Checks the message status (NOT “Active) and the message retry count (GT 0) and outputs the results. Get-Message -Server SERVER01 -IncludeRecipientInfo | Where{$_.RetryCount -gt 0} | Where{$_.Status -ne “Active”} | SELECT FromAddress, Recipients, LastError [...]

Tags: EMS, Exchange 2007, Get-Message, PowerShell