Environment: Windows Server 2003 IIS 6.0 Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x Symptoms: Installation of the Symantec Endpoint Protection manager fails after the Configuring IIS stage. Rolling back In the Windows Event Viewer – The Application log shows the following entry: “Event ID 11708. Source: MSI Installer. Description: Product: Symantec AntiVirus — Installation operation failed.” … Read more
Microsoft Windows XP End of Life and Retirement Dates. Products Released General Availability Date Mainstream Support Retired Extended Support Retired Service Pack Retired Notes Windows XP Home Edition 31/12/2001 14/04/2009 8/4/2014 30/08/2005 Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 28/10/2002 14/04/2009 8/4/2014 30/08/2005 Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 27/10/2003 14/04/2009 8/4/2014 … Read more
This is an update to a previous article about adding faxing capability to a FreePBX Asterisk system. From a NerdVittles article they point to a script available from the PbxInaFlash site. Here is the summary: Go to the default source download folder and download the script cd /usr/src wget http://pbxinaflash.net/source/fax/fax.pbx Make the script executable and … Read more
Using Skype, if you can make calls and others can hear you but you cannot hear them, check if your phone is on silent of vibrate. Skype seems to use the same volume as playing MP3 or the ringing. Turning up the volume fixed it for me after driving me crazy for almost … Read more
The proper SMTP server to use with DotNetNuke hosted on a GoDaddy shared hosting platform is: relay-hosting.secureserver.net Here are the Details. Under Host Settings: Advanced Settings: SMTP Server Settings: SMTP Server and port:: relay-hosting.secureserver.net SMTP Authentication: Anonymous SMTP Enable SSL: Unchecked
We have found a really annoying and recurring problem on some of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. The Hyper-V virtual machines will not start after a reboot. You cannot create or mount virtual drives in Disk Management. The problem seems to randomly appear after a reboot. The problem also appears to be … Read more
How to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. I have been asked a lot of questions about how to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. The problem is you can go into the … Read more
One annoying problem with Remote Assistance it the mapping of the ESC key. Pressing the ESC key ends your control of the remote computer requiring you to request control again. I use Microsoft Windows Remote Assistance once in a while to remotely support some users. It generally works pretty well if you do not have … Read more
T-Carrier rates Trunk Carrier Level Line Data Speed Digital Signal Level DS0 Lines – 64Kbps DS0 1 T1 1.544Mbps DS1 24 T-1C (Bonded T1) 3.152Mbps DS1C 48 T2 6.312Mbps DS2 96 T3 44.736Mbps DS3 672 T4 274.176Mbps DS4 4032 Opitcal Carrier Rates (SONET) Optical Carrier Level Line Data Rate Synchronous Transport Signal OC-1 51.84Mbps … Read more
If you need to delete your original Exchange Information Store you will first need to move the System Attendant mailbox to another Exchange Information Store. Unfortunately Microsoft did not make this easy or obvious. The steps require using ADSIEdit Open ADSIEdit.msc Connect to the configuration context. Drill down to find the distinguishedName of … Read more