Microsoft Office Troubleshooting
Recently, I was asked to talk with our Help Line staff about strategies for troubleshooting problems with Microsoft Office. I spent some time addressing the act...
Year: 2010
Troubleshooting Microsoft Office Activation
Microsoft Office volume license editions have used the Volume License 2.0 mechanism to manage activation since Office 2010. Microsoft Office will activate again...
Powershell Join-String function
Update: better yet, read about the -Join and -Split PowerShell operators. Live and learn. —Geoff Something I’ve found myself missing in PowerShell is a fu...
Event data mining with PowerShell
On Server 2008 and 2008 R2, if your Domain Controllers aren’t configured to require LDAP signing and disallow simple LDAP binds in plaintext, Active Directory...
Compiling OpenSSL for Win x64
I’m upgrading the components of the user provisioning system I built. Previously, I used ActiveState Perl and the UWinnipeg PPM repository to get the Net::LDA...
Network Policy Service error – eventid 4402
I’ve been working on deploying a load-balanced Remote Desktop Gateway service. I deployed the first farm member, then cloned it to create a second member. The...
My favorite Mac video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2187719718781346355# [contains some adult language : f-word]
Server 2008 R2 DNS client issues
We use BIND for our DNS, and allow certain systems to perform dynamic DNS registration. This arrangement has worked well for years. When I started deploying Ser...
PowerShell – find a free IP
Since we don’t use DHCP in our server subnets, I frequently have to locate free IP addresses when deploying a server. I remembered reading a TechNet Magaz...
2008 R2 DCDIAG errors with NIC teaming
I’m in the process of deploying a couple new Server 2008 R2 domain controllers. I’m using two IBM blades, each having a pair of Broadcom NICs that I configu...