Error message:
A connection to the deployment share (\\server\deployment_share) could not be made. The deployment will not proceed.
I ran into this problem this morning when trying to load Windows XP on a new computer using Business Desktop Deployment and Windows Deployment Services. It turned out that the reason for this is because my WinPE boot image didn’t have the network drivers for the new computer (when you type in ipconfig /all in the …
Error Message:
Mapi session “/o=Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=JohnSmith” exceeded the maximum of 32 objects of type “session”.
Source: MSExchangeIS
Event ID: 9646
On the client side, the user is unable to connect to Microsoft Exchange or getting this error:
Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server is down for maintenance.
This usually happens when the user loses …
We had to do this last January and this was supposed to be a job that shouldn’t take more than an hour to complete but it took us a few hours due to the lack of documentation (our biggest issue was how to reset the firewall to factory defaults because no one knew the password for it, the person who originally configured the second firewall left a while back). SonicWALL no longer supports this product …
I’m sure you’ve heard or read many stories before about laptops getting stolen containing thousands/hundreds of thousands of records on patients/customers/etc. Those records usually include very sensitive information such as a person’s Social Security Number. And a lot of times the data on those stolen laptops were not encrypted!!! Now those people are at high risk of identity theft. This wouldn’t have been such a big deal if they took an extra step of saving …
Below are some simple PowerShell scripts that I find pretty useful in Windows administration:
Note: For the scripts that connect to a remote machine, you will need to run PowerShell as a user with Administrator privileges to that machine.
Aliases:
Get a list of installed applications for a specified machine (32-bit OS only).
Gwmi Win32_Product -Comp computer_name | Sort name | ft name, …