Help! My Yahoo / Hotmail / Facebook Was Hacked!
In the last few weeks the personal accounts of at least four of my acquaintances have been hacked. As you may have experienced, when your friend’s account is hacked, you …
Wmiprvse.exe Hangs During File Services Migration
I’m migrating file services from a 32-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 machine to a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. Following Microsoft Technet guide File Services Migration Guide, I installed the …
A Required CD/DVD Drive Device Driver is Missing
I downloaded a Windows Server 2008 R2 ISO from Microsoft licensing. I inserted the ISO into a a Hyper-V virtual machine and started the installation. Very soon this message appeared …
Windows Server Backup: VSS Failure Backing Up Guest VM
I’m setting up Windows Server Backup on a Hyper-V host (Windows Server 2008 R2). I want to do an online backup of the guest virtual machine (Windows Server 2003 R2). …
Web Site Grader Rates Your Web Site
A colleague referred me to this cool tool for rating web sites: www.websitegrader.com. The tool evaluates your site on the basis of of several criteria: blog, links, metadata, domain age, …
Windows Time Stops Even When Set to Start Automatically
I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2 as a Hyper-V host. The domain controller runs as a guest. Following Microsoft’s recommendation, the host is not joined to the domain; it is …
Windows Server Backup: Swapping Target Drives
I’m running Window Server Backup on Windows Server 2008 R2. Like a good admin, I swap out destination drives, rotating one drive off site each week.
Prevent Administrator from Remote Logon to Workgroup Server
When I set up a server for management via Remote Desktop, I prefer to change the RDP listening port to a non-default value (MSKB 306759) and to use a custom …
Free MCB GoldPop Program Loads GoldMine Record from 3CX CallerID
I’ve recently changed my in-house PBX from Linux-based PBX in a Flash to Windows-based 3CX. One of the cool things about 3CX is the included 3CX Assistant, a call manager …
W32Time Errors in a Hyper-V Virtual Environment
I am running Small Business Server 2008 SP2 under Hyper-V. On a Server 2003 member server, also running under Hyper-V, I was getting frequent W32Time warnings errors in the System …