http://benchristian.com Observations and thoughts from an IT guy... Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:45:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I re-installed Vista on my laptop a few days ago and since rebuilding I haven't been able to download the latest version of messenger - It always comes up with "page cannot be displayed". I tried a lot of different things but still couldn't download it. In the ... http://benchristian.com/archives/106.html We recently noticed that there were some blank entries in the GAL, in other words, there was a completely blank line between some objects in the GAL. If I double-clicked on any of these blank entries I'd receive the following message:online bingo rooms internet blackjack games internet gambling laws internet gambling report internet ... http://benchristian.com/archives/99.html It isn't possible to create a checkpoint with SCVMM beta1 for VMs that are running. The obvious solution is to write a script to stop the VM first, then create the checkpoint and start it again. I've written a script that does exactly that, and it does it ... http://benchristian.com/archives/98.html Well I promised that I'd post again soon, and I think 2.5 hours later fullfills that promise! Now that I have the basics down, I looked at creating the most obvious script - "Start all VMs that are stopped". I did a lot of googling and couldn't find ... http://benchristian.com/archives/97.html When I first fired up Powershell I was searching for the SCVMM related cmdlets but couldn't see them. I ran Get-Command to list all the cmdlets but I didn't see any related to VMs. I saw a reference to a Get-VM command after doing some googling, but when ... http://benchristian.com/archives/96.html I'm currently setting up a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) environment. I can see that there are quite a few things that I'd like to script (starting and stopping VMs, creating checkpoints etc) so it's time to start playing around with PowerShell. One of the first things that ... http://benchristian.com/archives/95.html I was updating a link that we have in our MailSweeper 4.3 notification messages (i.e the messages that are sent to recipients when an email is blocked), and came across an issue. The new link contained a space, so it had '%20' in it. For example, http://intranet.net/email%20policy. ... http://benchristian.com/archives/94.html I recently built some Microsoft CRM 3.0 servers and came across a problem when trying to create the CRM databases on a SQL server. The CRM installation routine was returning the following error: Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Server.InstallDatabaseAction failed. The Microsoft Search service cannot be administered under the present user account I made sure that ... http://benchristian.com/archives/93.html The Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in (ADUC) includes the ‘Saved Queries’ feature which allows you to save queries for future use. One of the nice things about this feature is that once you save the query you can view the actual LDAP query string. ... http://benchristian.com/archives/89.html When you connect to a resource on another machine and supply a username/password, you are given the option to “save password”. It took me a little while to find where these credentials are stored in Windows XP, so I thought I’d share it with you. The process is slightly different ... http://benchristian.com/archives/84.html