Accessing a Button in a Visual WebGui ListView
I’ve developed a Visual WebGui 6.4 RC1 form that uses a ListView control with a button in each row. The button opens a custom control when pressed. It’s very similar …
How to Repair the SBSMonitoring Database
My daily report from SBS 2008 told me that MSSQL$SBSMONITORING had raised error event 8646 “Unable to find index entry in index ID 6, of table 357576312, in database ‘SBSMonitoring’. …
Where to Find CHKDSK Results
In Server 2008 R2 (and probably other OS’s), when you do a chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r, you’ll probably have to reboot your system let chkdsk have exclusive access to …
VSS Errors While Formatting Drive
In Server 2008 R2, I started a full (not quick) format on an external USB drive. While that was running, I wanted to check the shadow copy setup on some …
PowerEdge 1500SC: Bogus Memory and Linux Errors
Sometimes the trickiest errors are the ones you should ignore. I’m running PBX in a Flash, based on CentOS 5.2, on a Dell PowerEdge 1500SC. Back in February, I got …
Activate Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK Key – GUI Method
In spite of what it says in MSKB article 929826, and in spite of what I wrote in a previous blog article, it is possible to activate Windows 7 Enterprise …
Windows 7 UAC Blocks DRAC II Web Console
You have an old Dell server with a DRAC II remote access card. You just installed Windows 7 and you want to control the DRAC II from that desktop. You’ve …
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Failed to Start after Copying VHD
On Windows Server 2008 R2 running Hyper-V, I copied a VHD to an external drive using Windows Explorer. After compacting the drive, I copied the VHD back to its original …
Hyper-V Failed to Compact VHD
On Windows Server 2008 R2 running Hyper-V, I’m trying to compact a (dynamically expanding) VHD on an external hard drive (USB drive, NTFS format). The drive is 59GB and there …
How to Duplicate Administrator Permissions on Server 2008 R2
When administering Windows servers, I prefer not to use the built-in Administrator account especially when working through Remote Desktop, So I always copy the account to a new account, e.g. …