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Problem preventing Windows from checking the licence?

dotpro — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:02:54 +0000

One of our remote locations server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard edition had a strange error last week. Upon logging in, the system gave this error:

A Problem is Preventing Windows from Accurately Checking the License for this Computer

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Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated

dotpro — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:45:28 +0000

We deployed Office Communications Server 2007 last year - a great comunications tool to have within your enterprise. Few weeks ago, Microsoft released update (KB974571) for Office Communicator as well as Windows Server 2003 which caused the OCS's front-end service to terminate and not start.Read More

Clone a Virtual Machine In VMware ESX Server

dotpro — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:25:31 +0000

I am doing some research on Virtualization technologies and how it can help us consolidate some of the servers on one hardware machine. So far, it look very promising, especially with VMware ESX/ESXi server. I cam accross this video by TrainSignal on cloning virtual machines in VMware ESX server to speed up the deployment process.

Firewall, NAT and DNS, reverse DNS entries do not match Error

dotpro — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:49:34 +0000

If you host your own email behind a NAT device or firewall, you've probably seen this issue come up at least once in your enterprise. Recently, I've received some complaints about exchange 2007 bouncing email messages with error messages like this:

mxi5p.craigslist.org #554 5.7.1 Read More

Hardware Specs for Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

dotpro — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:36:09 +0000

After my previous post about Windows 7, Quick Launch Menu and XP/Vista Compatibility Mode, I got couple of emails asking what type of hardware I am using and other s Read More

Windows 7, Quick Launch Menu and XP/Vista Compatibility Mode

dotpro — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:00:10 +0000

Over 9 years ago I was using Windows 2000 professional as my main desktop PC when a friend convinced me to try Windows XP Professional. I decided to give it a try and I was a fan instantly, huge improvement from Windows 2000 Pro. The marriage lasted until August 2009 when I decided to ride the waves Read More

How to configure Backup Exec to purge Exchange email logs?

dotpro — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:27:17 +0000

If you have a busy Exchange email server, your log folder can grow to a humongous size in no time. Recently, our exchange 2007 cluster went from 200 GB free to 2GB free space. In a cluster environment, when you run out of disk space, exchange 2007 server will dismount the databases which means no e Read More

Missing or corrupt C_437.NLS file

dotpro — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:46:10 +0000

A user brought in their laptop today with Windows XP Professional Operating system which had this error message:

'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\C_437.NLS

How to delete the Hiberfil.sys file?

dotpro — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:21:49 +0000

So, how do you delete the Hiberfil.sys file on Windows 2008 server and/or Windows Vista machine? Our Dell 745N server’s boot partition ran out of disk space, while troubleshooting as to what was taking up so much space, I found that hiberfil.sys file was taking up over 4 GB of spa Read More

Email Server Generates “#500 Firewall Error##” Error

dotpro — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:55:14 +0000

We upgraded our mail server recently to Microsoft Exchange 2007 and users started experiencing problem sending emails to multiple recipients on same domain.

The error message:
Diagnostic information for administrators: Read More