Problem: Brand new HP Laptop that, after one day of using it, would not completely login to the system, just leaving a black screen with a cursor. I tried letting it sit there for an hour to see if it was hung up on a service but that didn’t work. I tried to restore from […]
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Problem: I’m managing an Exchange 2010 server with roughly 210 mailboxes. Most of which aren’t very big only a few hundred MBs or so and have them setup within two databases for organizational reasons. The main DB has 157 mailboxes and was a whopping 346GB!!! Which is way too big and is making my backups […]
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Problem: Installing updates on a new Dell box and after installing SP3, I get the “Some updates were not installed” error and no matter what I do, the updates fail. At first, I thought this was any issue with SP3 again but found that others had the same issue with SP2. Solution: Had to do […]
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Today, I was given an older Dell Laptop to reinstall Windows XP. Used the recovery discs that they provide and 30 minutes later, the laptop is up and running, almost. I had to service pack it and since Microsoft recently released service pack 3, I figured I will download that and patch the whole thing […]
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The other day, I upgraded to Vista SP1 and really haven’t noticed any significant changes but here are some things that I have discovered in the past 24 hours since the upgrade. Copying files to a network drive is faster. First thing I noticed is that I didn’t get the “calculating time to copy files” […]
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