Archive for the ‘Troubleshooting’ Category
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Sometimes getting SIMS.net to run smoothly seems like an impossible task. It's something like painting the Forth Bridge only when you get to the end, you not only have to start again, but also you realise they've replaced the damn bridge with 6 different bridges. Paint-resistant bridges. And it's raining... H2SO4.
Take ...
Posted in SIMS.net, Software, Technical, Troubleshooting | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Let me start by saying, "Aaaaaargh!". Now, on with the esoteric technorant!
I've spent nearly a day's effort trying to get offline files to encrypt as they are supposed to in Windows XP. The advantage of doing this is that any data which has synchronised to a laptop from your network ...
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
These instructions are step-by-step, but fairly long and (as yet) without any screenshots. Hopefully they will be of use to someone! Good luck!
Requirements:
Server: Windows Server 2003 Standard / Enterprise (I used standard) DC
Clients: Windows XP Pro SP2, wireless NIC supporting WPA
Access point: Most new wireless APs / routers will do. ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
I recently had one of those moments which I guess all techies have from time to time, where a once small irritation reaches the level where you have to completely obliterate it from existence. In this case, it was accidentally clicking on a mailto: link on a web page. For ...
Posted in Exchange, Technical, Troubleshooting | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
This may not be new to some, but WinDirStat is an excellent free tool for visualizing the space taken up by files on your hard disks or network drives and cleaning out clutter. I first used it a few months ago, but when one of my servers recently got worryingly ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Just a quick gotacha to be aware of: when installing Class Server 3 or 4 into Sharepoint, you'll need your Sharepoint to be installed into the web root "http://server/" rather than at "http://server/sharepoint/" or similar.That is all.
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