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Rebuilding my PC again

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My WinXP desktop was having serious problems. I tried to debug it for two days but finally decided to rebuild it. I was getting 100% CPU utilization with winlogon.exe. So I went to http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/ and built a new CD with most of the WinXP patches integrated. While I was at it I updated the client applications available via the SBS installation procedure. This helped the rebuild process go much faster. A new feature to my restore process was Fab’s Autobackup, http://fabs.dyndns.org/autobackup. It did a nice job of restoring my Firefox settings. I was hopeful that it might restore my Outlook categories and signatures but no luck!

Template Menu for Word

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Today I was reading the SBS Diva’s blog about a custom toolbar menu she has been using in Office 2003 for ten years. It sounded like a great idea for the Word 2003 templates I use to create business letters. My basic template prompts me to select a name from my Contacts in Outlook 2003 and then a small macro fills in the name and address fields in the letter and envelope. The template is a real time saver for me so I have created three versions of the same basic template with different letterheads and footers. I suspect this menu will be helpful if you have three or more templates you need to use on a semi-regular basis.

Recently I have been writing more letters so I am naturally interested in saving a few steps in bringing up the template. My natural work flow is to start Word, click on File-New, and then click on one of the recently used templates. This is not too bad but a custom toolbar menu is a little more intuitive and quicker. Here is how I created my toolbar menu.

  1. The first step is to create a macro that loads the template. I recorded a macro since my VBA memory is fuzzy. The macro has only one command in it so you may want to create the module from scratch and save it in the normal.dot.

    Documents.Add Template:= "\\srv1\Users\whuber\My Documents\Templates\WEHC Ltr.dot",_
            NewTemplate:=False, DocumentType:=0

  2. To create the custom toolbar, click on View-Toolbars-Customize menu item. A Customize popup window will appear. Click on the New button to create the custom toolbar. I called my toolbar, My Templates.
  3. Now we are going to place a menu in the toolbar. With the Customize popup still open click on the Commands tab. Go to the bottom of the Categories list and click on New Menu. In the Commands area drag and drop the New Menu command on to your newly created toolbar.
  4. Now we are going to fill in the menu items. The first thing we have to do is to go over to the toolbar and click on the New Menu icon to open the menu up. Go back to the Customize popup and click on the Macros item in the categories lists. You should see the macros you have created in step 1. You can now drag and drop the macros on to the open menu in your custom toolbar. When you have all of the menu items created you can now right click on the menu items and change the menu labels to something more descriptive.

I think I spent more time writing about how to create the menu than actually creating the menu. Oh well! Enjoy!

Installing the Messaging Security Agent from the Security Dashboard

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SMEX Error MessageThis week I upgraded the Trend Micro SMB installation on my “dog food” server to version 3.6. It kind of worked. The virus checking stuff upgraded nicely but the Messaging Security portion did not. I got this message, “Error 1923.Service Trend Micro Messaging Security Agent Remote Configuration Server(ScanMail_RemoteConfig) could not be installed”.

I researched the problem and it said I should check my privileges. After researching what privileges it was complaining about, I figured out that the privileges for the Administrator userid were just fine. So I rebooted and tried to install Messaging Security portion again. I was unsuccessful but this time it told me to install it from the Security Dashboard. I don’t remember seeing that message before but I was game. After a little research I found these instructions on how do this.

Installing the Messaging Security Agent from the Security Dashboard

These instructions were a little too short for me since the installation process asked me a few more questions than were included in the instructions. The installation process asked me which directory to install Messaging Security in and the “shared” directory. I was not sure what they wanted for the shared directory since this field was prefilled with C$. C$ looks like a “share” to me and I was clueless about a shared directory. If Trend Micro has a shared directory they want me to use, they hid it well. Since I was installing these files on my “H” drive, I assumed they wanted the “share” for the drive, H$. Anyway that is what I gave it. When I pressed the enter key, a screen showing the installation status popped up. The status screen updated several times over the next ten minutes before it finally completed. Now when I check the “Live Status” and “Security Settings” screens they show me that the Anti-spam is working. Since Microsoft’s Intelligent Messaging Filter catches most of the spam for my “dog food” server I got through this unscathed.

SYDI and System Documentation

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SYDI is a program to document your system. There are a lot of programs you can use to document your systems. Some programs are very sophisticated and provides lots of detail. Although these programs do not cost much, they inevitably have licensing issues and they provide a lot more detail than I care about. SYDI is a bunch of visual basic scripts that probe the system using WMI to create a XML file. At this moment SYDI provides enough documentation for me. With another script you can transform this XML file into either a Word document or HTML file. The documentation is not fancy but it is sufficient.

Recently I was updating my documentation for my server at home and decided that I was going to start saving versions of the server documentation. I initially changed the scripts to embed the date in the filename. I have since changed my mind and I have decided to store the XML files in a SVN depository. This way I can keep multiple versions of the XML file and compare these versions with the built-in Diff program or WinMerge. I still like the idea of embedding the date in the file name on the latest Word or HTML file.

As I was mucking about the scripts I decided to make a small contribution to the SYDI project and modify the XSL to generate valid XHTML code. I sent the XSL file to the developers and I will let them decide if they want to include it in the next release.

WSUS 3.0 problem partially fixed…Hmm

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To make sure an upgrade works I install it first at home. I remain a little suspicious until I see that everything is working. As a test I release an unimportant patch to make sure WSUS still works. After a day I noticed that the patch had not been applied. A little checking showed me that none of my computers had checked in. That’s not good. A little more checking with the client diagnostic utility confirmed that the clients were talking but the server was responding with an error message. My setup under WSUS 2.0 used port 8531 for https and port 8530 for http. I switched the GPO to tell the clients to use the non-ssl port 8530 instead of 8531 and the clients could communicate with the WSUS server. Using 8530 is a temporary solution but I think I have the problem narrowed down. Hopefully this will be the only problem I have with WSUS 3.0.

WSUS 3.0 and ISA 2004 SP3 Updates

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Windows Server Update Services(WSUS)

I was feeling a little adventurous yesterday and decided to update the Windows Server Update Services(WSUS). This package is a great tool for managing and tracking the updates to windows computers in a small business server environment. There are other products that may do a little better job but you cannot beat the price(Free). My version of WSUS was working okay but the console had always been very slow and occasionally I yearned for a little custom reporting. I could read between the lines, too. Microsoft really wants us to upgrade to 3.0 so you better be ready soon! I opted to get it done when it fit in my schedule. I cannot really complain about the slowness since I am running it on a server with less than the recommended CPU power. Before I could upgrade I had to install two packages:

  1. Microsoft .Net Framework Version 2.0
  2. Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 SP1

Although my version of WSUS had been migrated over to SQL Server, I did not need to alter the registry as indicated in the README file. With all of the prerequisites in place, I invoked the upgrade. The inplace upgrade took a long time but it completed without error. That is always a good sign. The only part of the upgrade I had not paid attention to was that the new console had completely replaced the old web-based console. The old console was no longer available. The good news is that I could run the upgrade on my workstation and I could install the new console as long as I had met the prerequisites(i.e. .Net 2.0 and Report Viewer 2005). After looking it was finished I went back to see what it had left behind. The SUSDB was gone. I did find a new SQL Server instance called “Microsoft ##SSEE” that was visible in Server Management console. It probably is a SQL Server 2005 Express database since it wants the SQL Server Management Studio to manage it.

Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 SP3

This service pack was released today, 5/1/2007. I did not see any advance warning in the mailing lists. Since I started updating the server yesterday and it was still in good condition for more updates, I went ahead and applied this one. This one installed without problems. I will add a new server configuration report for my records.
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More ideas on freeing up space on a windows server boot partition

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Recently I have been plagued with low disk space on the boot partition of my SBS2K3 server. I was confused why this was occurring since I thought I had this under control. When I found some spare time I started to re-examine the typical culprits(e.g. log files and temp files). I found some files but they were not big enough to cause the problem I was seeing. Since I needed about 1 Gig free space for some major upgrades, I decided to go ahead and move the SBSMonitoring database to another disk drive and delete old patch files. This almost got me to 1 Gb. I even decided to replace Acrobat with the lighter weight PDF reader, Foxit Reader.

Today I found the problem! I had previously set up Shadow copies to store the copies for all disk drives on my backup drive. While I was using JDiskReport to look at the disk space I noticed that there were three large directories in the System Volume information for the boot partition. After a little snooping I figured out my shadow copies were being stored on the boot partition and they were being duplicated. As an example, I was getting a copy at 7:00 and 7:02. I do not know how things got screwed up but I suspect it occurred during a power outage when the backup drive went offline before the server. Fixing it was easy. I deleted the existing shadow copies and changed the settings to point to my backup drive. To fix the scheduling problem, I went into the Tasks control panel and deleted the extra jobs.

I was thinking of getting rid of Java and JDiskReport until it lead me to the source of my problem. I probably will remove it but not right now. TreeSize Free is a free, lightweight alternative. The Professional version is even better. It was much easier to rationalize removing Acrobat from the server. For those interested in using Foxit Reader to replace Adobe Acrobat on your server, the link is listed below. Acrobat uses about 80 Mb of disk space when installed. Foxit uses about 2 Mb, launches much quicker than Acrobat, and does not need to be installed. I do not browse the Internet from the server but I do look at Trend Micro reports while logged as Administrator on the server.

Now with Foxit Reader 2.0, you don’t have to endure such pain any more. The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader 2.0:

  • Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 1.5 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size
  • Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
  • Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader 2.0 allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
  • Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
  • High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to Internet without users’ permission. While other PDF Reader often silently connects to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware or adware.

Source: Foxit Software
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Publishing ISA Reports on your Sharepoint site

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Here’s the problem. You want to look at your firewall reports regularly. You have gone so far as to set up ISA to publish the daily and monthly reports to a directory on the server but getting to yesterday’s report is a real pain in the butt. It would be nice to send the report via email as a pdf like Trend does or to have it appear on the home page of your sharepoint site. Although I may do the email option in the nearby future I have already completed the second option. Here is how I did it.

  1. Publish the ISA reports you are interested in to a directory if you have not already done it.
  2. Add a virtual directory to your default web site and point it at your report directory. For this example I will use srv1 as the server name and isa as the virtual directory name. This virtual directory points to my ISA reports directory located at h:\reports. To get to the Daily report for 4/25/2007 I would use the following URL, http://srv1/isa/Daily_(4.25.2007-4.25.2007)/report.htm. As you can see entering this URL can get pretty tedious.
  3. To solve this problem I created a small web page with some javascript that calculates the URL to yesterday’s ISA report and then redirects you there. I called that page, daily.htm, and put it in the Reports directory. So if I wanted to see yesterday’s ISA report, I would enter the following URL into my browser, http://srv1/isa/daily.htm, and the latest ISA daily report would pop up.
  4. Now since we have a URL that will always point to the latest ISA daily report, the Page Viewer Web Part becomes a simple solution to the problem. The Page Viewer Web Part gives me a peak at the Daily report and it makes it easy for me to browse the rest of the report. I created a similar web page that produces Monthly report. I put links to both pages and the directory in my Sharepoint Links list and My Favorites.

Although I used this technique for looking at firewall reports it could be easily modified to show a web page with key business indicators that you create daily, weekly, or monthly.

Here is the code for the daily.htm web page.

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en_US" lang="en_US">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script type="text/javascript">
//< ![CDATA[
function getRptDate()
{
var now = new Date();
var ydate = new Date(now.getTime() - 86400000);
var yday = ydate.getDate();
var ymon = ydate.getMonth() + 1;
var yyear = ydate.getFullYear();
var datetext = ymon + '.' + yday + '.' + yyear + '-' + ymon + '.' + yday + '.' + yyear;
return datetext;
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var d = getRptDate();
var path = 'http://srv1/isa/';
window.location = path +'Daily_(' + d + ')/report.htm';
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

Colligo Reader and Contributor – Your Offline SharePoint Solution

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Colligo Reader is free for individual use and a great way to try the rich offline experience that Colligo for SharePoint delivers. Reader provides read-only access to SharePoint content offline, including documents, lists, and metadata. It is so simple to use that training is not required. Download Colligo Reader for free today!

Source: Colligo Reader and Contributor – Your Offline SharePoint Solution

The good news is that our board is asking me questions. The bad news is that I do not always have the answer on the tip of my tongue and I need to look it up. For the last year I had been bringing my laptop to the meetings so that I could answer those unexpected questions. About two months ago our nonprofit moved their board meeting to an offsite location. It is a nice conference room in a good location but it does not have public Wi-Fi access. This is where Colligo Reader has been a great help. I store all of my nonprofit reports, letters, and worksheets in a Sharepoint site I run. Before I go to the meeting I let Colligo synchronize the files. This is a great solution for the mobile workforce and especially for those people trying to keep their nonprofit work from consuming the rest of the day.

2003 SP2 is okay!

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I installed SP2 late on Friday without any obvious issues besides that it took a long time to install. Late in the evening IIS shut down for an unknown reason. I did not catch it until the following day. It caused several problems in programs dependent on IIS. After I restarted IIS everything has been stable for the last two days. Everything I tried still works.

Win 2003 sp2 on Microsoft update now

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Windows Update Screenshot

On Microsoft update and apparently soon on WSUS is Windows 2003 sp2. I want you to go over to your servers right now and turn off auto updates if you have then enabled on the servers. For R2 WSUS boxes you won’t get SP2 automatically as SP’s are offered up but not auto installed. But I don’t want you to accidentally install this service pack as for us SBSers we need to read KB932600 …but as of right now the link isn’t yet live..

Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 customers – Please read Knowledge Base Article 932600 before installing SP2) …

I did not see this one coming. I am busy with other things and do not want to deal with SP2 until someone else figures out the problems. I do not have any problems that SP2 will fix. In fact I am pretty happy with my servers. With the tax season peak just around the corner this is the wrong time to drop in unannounced with SP2. Fortunately my servers will only update when I bless it. So I should be in good shape.

Hard Disk MTBF: Flap or Farce?

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Data sheets for hard drives have always included a specification for reliability expressed in hours: commonly known as MTBF (mean time between failures), or sometimes the mean time to failure. Same difference: One way assumes that a drive will be fixed, and the other, replaced. Nowadays, this number is around a million hours for an “enterprise” hard drive. Some drives are rated at 1.5 million hours.

Now, that’s a good stretch to time. After all, a year is only 8,760 hours. One million hours comes to a bit more than 114 years. Some may be scratching their heads, since the hard drive itself has only been around for 50 years (IBM’s giant 350 Disk Storage Unit for its RAMAC computer). This can be confusing.

Instead, the MTBF is a statistical measure based on a calculation extrapolated from less-lengthy readings. It all means that drives are very reliable, with a failure rate well under 1 percent per year. Go Team Storage!

However, several papers covering large-scale storage presented at FAST ’07, the USENIX conference on File and Storage Technologies, held recently in San Jose, Calif., are kicking up a stir online about MTBF.

The Best Paper award was handed to “Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?” by Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Their study tracked a whopping set of drives used at large-scale storage sites, including high-performance computing and Web servers. The data suggests that a number of common wisdoms surrounding disk reliability are wrong.

For example, they found that annual disk replacements rates were more in the range of 2 to 4 percent and were as high as 13 percent for some sites. Yikes.

Source: Hard Disk MTBF: Flap or Farce?

I found this fascinating article about MTBF and disk failures yesterday. I have known for some time that you must take the MTBF figures with a grain of salt. Disk drives appear to fail more often than what the MTBF figures would leave you to believe. The differences between “enterprise” disk drives and “retail” disk drives appear to be indistinguishable in the real world. Yet as an IT professional we will always recommend the component with the higher perceived quality even though we have misgivings about the statistics. For most businesses the cost of down time due to a disk failure is much higher than the additional cost for quality. Although we hate to admit it, there is a significant subjective component to our component recommendation. 

Trend Micro 3.5 ActiveUpdate Server setting

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From the SBS2K group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sbs2k/

Hello,
> What they don’t know is that I turned the server off for a
> day, and that one desktop is still being updated.
The Clients will update, automatically, from the Internet if they cannot communicate direclty with the CSM SMB server. We have changed this to be the default behavior in 3.5. You can check this here:
Security Settings | Select a Group | Configure | Client Privileges | Update Settings
[x] Download from the Trend Micro ActiveUpdate Server
It is now enabled by default in 3.5 and above.
> because he understands that it should be able to run on
> the Windows XP Pro system.
Prior to GM release we run a final check called FCSE, First Customer Ship Experience, and I personally did the following on Windows XP Professional and had no issues.
2.0 upgrade to 3.5
3.0 SP1 upgrade to 3.5
3.5 New installation
Let me check with Support on this issue.
Regards,
William Kam
Product Management
Trend Micro, Ltd.
https://SMB-PORTAL.TRENDMICRO.COM (External User Group Portal)

Although I am running version 3.5 on the company server, I did not think my laptop was updating until I connected with the local network via vpn. When I checked my configuration I found that the setting to allow the client to update from the ActiveUpdate server was not enabled. It is now enabled since I prefer to have my laptop up to date.

My experience with Trend Micro has been mixed. I run Client Server Messaging Security for SMB version 3.5 on our company server. I generally have had good experiences with the client. Major client updates can get a little hairy. My experience is that all of the anti-virus vendors are okay but the other vendors are a little more intrusive. The most serious problems I faced occured with the server interface under version 3.0. Several SBS consultants said they were staying with 2.0 until the interface situation improved. SP1 improved the situation somewhat. I found the interface to be quirky but workable since clients do not access it and I did not need to use it very often. I upgraded to version 3.5 from 3.0 SP1. It took a long time to upgrade but it worked without a problem. The server interface has improved. It is stable and a joy to use.

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E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" : Getting an "Event ID 5" error on "DefaultAppPool"?

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Getting an “Event ID 5″ error on “DefaultAppPool”?

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Active Server Pages
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5
Date:  14/05/2004
Time:  4:32:55 AM
User:  N/A
Computer: 001DC001
Description:
Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data may have additional error codes..

Try these fixes:

A. Add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to
C:\WINDOWS\Help\iisHelp\common with “Read and Execute,” “List Folder Contents” and “Read”.

B. Add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\ASP Compiled Templates with Full Control.

C. Add the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account to C:\WINDOWS\IIS Temporary Compressed Files with Full Control.

Thanks David S. for the suggestion! :-)

Source: E-Bitz – SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS “Diva” : Getting an “Event ID 5″ error on “DefaultAppPool”?

Event 5 is more of an annoyance than an error so I implemented this today. I do not know how long I have had this “error” but the only symptom is this error message. I restarted IIS and I did not get the error message. My final test will be when I reboot.

Cleaning up ISA routes

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ISA Server detected routes through adapter WAN that do not correlate with the network element to which this adapter belongs. For best practice, the address range of an ISA Server network should match the address ranges routable through the associated network adapter as defined in the routing table. Otherwise valid packets may be dropped as spoofed. (This alert may occur momentarily when you create a remote site network. You may safely ignore this message if it does not reoccur.) The address ranges in conflict are: 172.16.255.255-172.16.255.255;.

While I was fixing problems I decided to clean up this configuration error. I have a DMZ that uses IP addresses, 172.16.0.0 through 172.16.0.255. Evidently ISA needs 172.16.255.255 so it inserts a route on the WAN adapter for it and then complains about the route being in the wrong place. I added this single address to the DMZ network and this configuration error went away.

Microsoft ISA 2004 crashes and burns

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Yesterday was a miserable day. We lost power for eight hours due to an ice storm and I spent most of the day taking care of business in the barn since our employees were not going to make it in. When I finally got some time to look at my server, it was complaining that it was running low on disk space on the OS partition and that an external drive I was storing volume snaps had been forced down. Microsoft had just let loose gobs of patches. So late in the day I decided to clean up the server.

  1. I deleted the tmp files that had caused the disk space problem.
  2. I deleted the old apps I have been meaning to remove but hadn’t got around to it.
  3. I applied the patches and reboot.

Then the fun began. The Firewall service crashed with the following message.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Microsoft ISA Server 2004
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 2/15/2007
Time: 11:03:56 AM
User: N/A
Computer: myserver
Description: Faulting application wspsrv.exe, version 4.0.2165.610, stamp 442d48f1, faulting module w3filter.dll, version 4.0.2165.610, stamp 442d48dd, debug? 0, fault address 0x00094cff.

This did not seem too serious until I realized that my workstation could no longer see the server. My search of the internet came up with nothing so I removed the most recent patches and rebooted. It still failed. The server’s browser could not get to local https sites and the LAN card was showing no incoming traffic. This was getting pretty ugly.

The symptoms on my workstation were ugly, too. All of the programs(e.g. TrendMicro and Firewall client) that regularly communicate with the server were not communicating with the server. When I ran ipconfig, it showed that DHCP was not working. The LAN card status showed that there were no incoming packets. Fortunately I can let this server be down for awhile, so I went to bed.

Today I searched the internet for some more clues. I found a reference for a similar problem that pointed me in the direction of the ISA cache and it recomended disabling BITS on the ISA Cache rules. That didn’t work. Since I was out of ideas I decided to disable the cache. I started the firewall service and it worked. Just for kicks I enabled the cache and started the firewall service again. It worked! It must have been something in the cache.

Outlook by the sound : RPC server is unavailable since SP1

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I finally called Tech Support and we found out that there is a hotfix out related to RPC Issues in ISA 2004, also there is an “SBS Protected Networks Access Rule” . Rt click it and “configure RPC protocol and uncheck the “Enforce strict RPC compliance”. This will allow DCOM to pass.

Source: Outlook by the sound : RPC server is unavailable since SP1

Okay this should not be that difficult but I found a way to screw it up. I started to suffer these problems when I installed SP1 for SBS Premium  in 2005(?). The most prominent symptom of this problem is that you suffer Autoenrollment errors on the client and 537 login audit failures on the server. The 537 errors are kerberos errors but they are particularly ambiguous. This was an annoying problem in my case but surprisingly everything still works. From a different source than the one listed above, I unchecked the “Enforce strict RPC compliance” box. The problem is that there are two boxes, one in the System Policy and another the box on the “SBS Protected Networks Access Rule”. I unchecked the box in the System Policy and it did not fix my problem. So I spent a lot of hours after installing SP1 trying to figure out why I was still getting errors. Over the last two days I have been rebuilding my desktop computer so I made another attempt to clear up this problem. Lo and behold, I found this in one of my searches. Unchecking the box on “SBS Protected Networks Access Rule” appears to have fixed the Autoenrollment errors and 10009 DCOM errors on the client. It also fixes the 537 audit failures on the server.

Workaround Discovered For Clean Install With Vista Upgrade DVDs

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Microsoft internal documentation reveals workaround for Vista Upgrade DVDs with no need for a previous version of Windows

Link to Workaround Discovered For Clean Install With Vista Upgrade DVDs

Original article can be found at Workaround Discovered For “Clean Install” With Vista Upgrade DVDs at Dailytech.com. Clean installs are a useful fix for a variety of difficult to solve problems but I find it very curious that Microsoft does not require the original disk.

The Outlook "Move" tool for DST has been released

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Download details: Microsoft Office Outlook Tool: Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568&displaylang=en&tm

To install this download:

  1. Before running this tool, make sure that you have installed the Windows patch that contains the most up-to-date time zone definitions or you are running Windows Vista with the most up-to-date time zone definitions.
  2. Download the file by clicking the Download button (above) and saving the file to your hard disk.
  3. Double-click the tzmove.exe program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.
  4. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

Instructions for use:
After you are done installing the tool, it will automatically launch for you.

  1. Verify your default Data File is selected and Update to reflect changes to Windows time zones is selected, and continue through the rest of the tool.
  2. If you need to run the tool again, then launch tzmove.exe (located in the \Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Office Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool\ folder.)

Note that if you have created non-recurring appointments on your Calendar since you updated your Windows time zones, you should click the Details button once the tool has reported that its scan is complete and uncheck any such appointments before continuing. Additionally, after running the tool, make sure to go to your calendar and review your calendar items to ensure that they appear at the correct times.

This is the standalone mailbox tool…and I’m not sure I understand what it’s doing?

Timezone screen image

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