This error often shows itself as an error on clients where the user does not have administrative permissions to install the updated control. In this update, the files on the server are not updated though. The fix is provided through the installation of Cumulative Update Package 2 for SQL Server 2008 SP2. Available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2467239
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Fast Reconnect with PEAP
I have been investigating issues with our laptops whereby they would freeze and become generally unresponsive when changing area and thus changing they connected WAP. This was causing big problems for staff who teach in multiple rooms and regularly change between wired and wireless connections. We have a combination of HP ProCurve 420WW and HP
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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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Active Directory Topology Diagrammer
Used this tool a couple of times – and it saves so much time when you need or want to draw out your AD structure. This free download from Microsoft queries your AD for the domains, sites, OU’s, and Exchange structure, and draws it out with connectors and information in Visio. I’m using it with Visio
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Facilities Manager Software
After failing to find a piece of software that met all of our needs, I decided to write a program for managing bookings for the facilities at the college. It is very nearly complete, and offers nearly all the functionality that we were looking for. If you have a venue where you are looking to
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Installing Quicktime Silently
Been having a bit of trouble installing QuickTime silently – kept getting errors on the lines of ‘A Newer Version of QuickTime already exists’, even though the previous version was 6.something. We were trying to install 7.6.8. It seems like the installer looks in a number of places for this information. We did manage to
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XSL:Sort by Date Time
If you are stuck trying to sort XML date by date/time then this snippet of code may help you. Been stuck in head first into some XSL scripting, so learning at quite a rate. <xsl:sort select=”ddwrt:FormatDateTime(@DateTimeField, number($lcid), ‘yyyyMMddHHmm’)” /> In the above line, @DateTimeField is the name of the field to sort, $lcid is your
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