October 24th, 2009
Well this is something to consider if you don’t have any virus protection so far. You should and Microsoft offers it now for free. I will install it on my Windows 7 systems.
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.
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October 23rd, 2009
For last couple of hours I am struggling with installing the SSP provider for Sharepoint 2007 server. During the creation of a new SSP provider a Indexer is required; well I can’t select any because it is empty. Searched on google and found out that I need to start “Office SharePoint Server Search” service in Central Administration website “Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server” and enable that service. Guess what? The service is missing.
Example screenshot:
Than I found my mistake. During the installation of Sharepoint 2007 I choose for Server type"Web Front End" instead of “Complete”.
I went back to my notes I created during the installation and I saw in the screenshot “Web Front End” server type was selected…
Related links:
Tags: Indexer, missing, sharepoint, SSP
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October 19th, 2009
Last week Microsoft released serveral security updates and KB974571 broke our production OCS 2007 server at our hosted environment. Serveral events were shown in the Systemlog:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7038
Date: 10/17/2009
Time: 7:04:25 PM
User: N/A
Computer: OCS
Description:
The RtcSrv service was unable to log on as domain\RTCService with the currently configured password due to the following error:
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7024
Date: 10/19/2009
Time: 8:52:23 AM
User: N/A
Computer: OCS
Description:
The Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated with service-specific error 3286842403 (0xC3E93C23).
10/19/2009 5:37:19 AM OCS Server 1000 12290
The evaluation period for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 has expired. Please upgrade from the evaluation version to the full released version of the product.
Please make sure you don’t install the “MS09-056: Vulnerabilities in CryptoAPI could allow spoofing” KB974571 until this problem has been fixed.
MS09-056: Vulnerabilities in CryptoAPI could allow spoofing:
Known issues that affect this security update
Services that are required by Communications Server are not started after you install this update and then restart a computer that is running any of the following versions of Communications Server:
- Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS)
- Live Communications Server 2005 SP1
- Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise edition (OCS)
- Office Communications Server 2007 Standard edition
- Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise edition
- Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard edition
- Office Communicator 2007 Evaluation version only*
- Office Communicator 2007 R2 Evaluation version only*
When this problem occurs, the required services behave as if an expired trial version of the product is installed. This behavior affects the whole Communications Server enterprise that is hosted by the affected server or servers.
Microsoft is investigating this issue, and will determine the most appropriate way to address it. Customers who are not running OCS or LCS server are not affected by this known issue, and can safely ignore this issue.
Customers who have deployed the OCS or LCS product on a server should assess the risk that is involved to decide whether to install the security update on that server. These customers should revisit this Knowledge Base article often, because this article will be updated as soon as more information and a resolution are available.
Tags: down, KB974571, OCS, outage
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September 24th, 2009
When uploading PDF documents to “Document Libraries” in Sharepoint 2007 the icon is missing. It takes couple steps to get this done. One task to your planning when putting the Sharepoint 2007 server in production. I run these steps in my DEV environment.
Follow the hyperlinks below to get this done in your Sharepoint 2007 configuration:
Tags: 2007, howto, icon, manual, missing, sharepoint
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July 29th, 2009
Development of Windows 7 has completed and Microsoft announced release to manufacturing (RTM).
It’s almost here! We’re very happy to tell you that we’ve hit the last big milestone on the way to Windows 7: Release to Manufacturing. We’re packaging copies and manufacturers are putting it on new PCs. On October 22, you’ll be able to get the final shipping product. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done; you helped make this an operating system we’re all going to enjoy.
Don’t miss the good stuff. With the final release rapidly approaching, make sure you learn about special offers and other news including details about launch events in your area. A great way to keep up with what’s going on is to sign up for one of our free newsletters. Not only will you get the scoop on the Windows 7 launch, you’ll get useful news throughout the year.
Last week I bought my first MAC ever and just started learning MacOS, but still looking forward to get Windows 7 loaded on all my systems.
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July 16th, 2009
My Openfiler SAN died and the virtual machine with Virtual Center Server needed to be reboot. After reboot
the “VMWare VirtualCenter Server” service failed to start with following error message:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VMware VirtualCenter Server
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 7/14/2009
Time: 10:00:42 AM
User: N/A
Computer: VC
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( VMware VirtualCenter Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down….
I went to to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs and opened latest vpxd-XX.log file. I found the following error in mine:
[2009-07-14 10:00:42.480 'App' 3976 info] [VpxLRO] 600-second task lifetime
[2009-07-14 10:00:42.480 'App' 3976 error] [VpxdCertificate] Failed: cannot open certificate file: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\ssl\rui.crt
[2009-07-14 10:00:42.480 'App' 3976 error] Failed to intialize VMware VirtualCenter. Shutting down…
[2009-07-14 10:00:42.480 'App' 3976 info] Forcing shutdown of VMware VirtualCenter now
I tried to locate the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\ssl folder but it was simply not there; than searched for rui.crt in C:\ and found two other directories with similar certificate in:
- C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Converter Enterprise\ssl
- C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\SSL
I copied C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Converter Enterprise\ssl to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\ssl\ and started “VMware VirtualCenter Server” service again. Now the service was successfully started. Login with VMWare Virtual Infrastructure client and connect your ESX hosts again.
For more information on the CA issue you can read here:
Tags: 1000, failed, service, start, VirtualCenter, VMWare
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