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Sometimes I forget how I fixed problems in the past and this error is an example. In my case the fix was simple. I followed the instructions in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867628 and increased the threshold from 104857600 to 704857600. I made an educated guess at this value.

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On the last Friday of June I came into the office and found myself confronted with one of the more unique disaster recovery scenarios I have ever encountered. The primary symptom was that no one could get to their email. The cable modem and the router attached to it looked like they were turned off. [...]

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Recently I had to investigate a problem with our SMTP server. One of things I wanted to know was when the SMTP problems started. Like most computer problems multiple event IDs were were being triggered each time a problem occurred. The Pivot Table Wizard is a great tool for quickly summarizing the event log data. [...]

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A big thank you goes out Aaron for his automated cleanup tool to remove the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. Yesterday I found myself in “No Man’s Land”. My PC was trying to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1(KB110806). It did not work and complained about not finding 2.0a.  The [...]

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About once a month I go to the Windows Update and let it check my computer. If Windows Update is working properly, the Windows Update cupboard will be bare. Sometime in December Windows Update stopped working for me and it started giving me a userdata persistence error. The help system said that all of my [...]

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Susan says:

So let’s say you want to be alerted when someone does a password attempt on your system. Go into the health monitor, copy the Account Lockout alert service and edit it to look for event 529 in the event logs. Adjust the Actions to not only log to the system but to [...]

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