Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
This guide only works on WS 2008 or Vista. The WAIK is supported on WS 2003 and XP too, but the driver injection will fail.
You can download the WAIK here.
Install the WAIK, open the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt. Also, have the WS 2008 boot.wim ready, and mount the VMWare ...
Posted in VMWare, Windows Server 2008 | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
I had to ran the diagnostic tools on a dell pe 1950 server, but the test stopped very early with the message "the system event log contains memory related errors".
There are several ways to clear the SEL, one that can be performed locally and one remotely.
1. Clear the SEL locally
At ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Perform this query to change the logical filename of both the data and logfile of you database.
USE MASTER
GO
ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase
MODIFY FILE
(NAME = <DBFileName_DATA>, NEWNAME='NewDBFileName_Data')
GO
ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase
MODIFY FILE
(NAME = DBFileName_Log, NEWNAME='NewDBFileName_Log')
GO
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
In VMware Server Console, click "Install VMware Tools".
The setup GUI will not automaticly appear, so you have to run it manually. Actually by clicking on "install vmware tools" the cd-rom drive was mounted with tools, so you can now type "D:", and then run setup.exe.
This will run the setup GUI ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
To install active directory on windows server 2008, server core edition, you must first create an answer file for the unattended installation, because server core does not offer the GUI wizard.
This sample answer file is to install a new domain in a new forest, with the installation of a DNS ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
By using the stored procedure MSforeachtable it's possible to perform the ALTER SCHEMA sql statement for all tables in a given database.
To change the schema for all tables this would look like:
exec sp_MSforeachtable "ALTER SCHEMA new_schema TRANSFER ? PRINT '? modified' "
Which would look like this if you want to ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
When I wanted to send an e-mail from my exchange mailbox to an external e-mail address, the message wasn't send.
I tracked the message in the Queue Viewer and it couldn't be sent because of this: "A matching connector cannot be found to route the external recipient".
To be able to send ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
I got this error after sending an e-mail from an external domain over the internet to the exchange server, the message bounced with "530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated" as error.
This is caused by the fact that I did not install an Edge Transport Server and did not specificly allow ...
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