Ok. I have a server running Windows Small Business Server 2003. Back in the day when it was set up I naively had only a 20gb System volume, on a dynamic disk, mirrored. Unfortunately that ran out of space, so I set about extending the partition. Windows Disk Management and Diskpart in Windows 2003 don’t
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Category: Microsoft Windows
Windows PE 3.0: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Have been working with Windows PE 3.0 to create an automated bootable USB and CD that boots a machine, partitions the disk, applies an image and copies some files to create a ThinStation thin client. Whenever we booted our target machines, we got the following error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL – 0x0000000A Windows PE 3.0 has a minimum requirement
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Windows Update Error 80244023
Just a quick one here. I am sure there are a number of other fixes around for this error, but a reminder here to check for the simple things. Running Windows Update using WSUS on Windows Server 2008. Clicked the Check for Updates option and this error came up. Check your proxy settings. If you
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Can ping a website but cannot browse to it
Just finished repairing a PC which could ping websites, but could not browse to them using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Turns out that Norton is once again to blame. A fix is given on the link below. In short, use the Norton Removal Tool to remove any offending applications, rebott, and the joy of
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Page File Location when System drive is Mirrored
I have been working on a server today which has 2 HDD, mirrored for redundancy. It is a software based mirror provided by Windows Server 2003. The server had been having a couple of performance issues, and whenlooking at the performance monitor, they tended to be caused by long write times to the Page File.
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Redirected My Documents folders showing as ‘Documents’ rather than the users name
Had a complaint from a member of staff recently that all students work folders showed up as My Documents when he was browsing through their work. Many of you may have been directed to this Microsoft KB as a ‘solution’. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947222 Not much of a solution if you ask me. Redirection to a subfolder would
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Specified Port is Unknown error when adding Network Printers
Just finished investigating and resolving an error whereby the message ‘Specified Port is Unknown’ appears when adding a network printer. This was first noticed when running a login script that add’s printers didn’t actually add any printers. To fix this problem, you need to delete references to the printer drivers in the registry. I had
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Windows 2008 R2 RDS: Print Spooler Stops
We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing: Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Exception code: 0xc0000374 After trying to
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Login Script Not Running Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Call today: User has not got any network drives when logging on to the thin clients. The setup for this is as follows: 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 servers running RDS, DNS round robin, load balanced. 56 x ThinStation 2.2.2 clients A VBS login script is applied using Group Policy. All student users have
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ISA 2006: Re-design
Just been working on our ISA infrastructure. We have 2 ISA servers, 1 for staff, and 1 for students. Main reason for the separate servers is that each ‘group’ have to go through a different upstream proxy server. (Bit of a pain, but that’s what we have to do.) Simple task this morning, block a
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