Sometimes when you customize a mapping (in this example DV Released Products), you will get an error similar to Project validation failed. [DIPV1004]... this error comes from Data Integrator in Dataverse, which is the en
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DualWrite Error [DIPV1004] - Explained What is a Released Distinct Product When you map products between Dyanmics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain and Dynamics 365 for Sales there are a couple of basic concepts that are important to think about. Products Product in FnO contains master data. It
Dualwrite: Missing order lines When setting up Dualwrite for orders and quotes and doing initial sync, sometimes all order/quote lines do not sync over correctly. Especially if you have historical orders that are already delivered. If an order is deli
Dual Write core application error-SecureConfig Organization (XXXX) does not match actual Dataverse Organization (YYYY) We are working with a a couple of customers that are running Dualwrite to sync between ERP and CRM. Today one of my colleagues called me and told me he could not create an account in an environment at one of these custom
App Insights for FnO in 15 Minutes When LCS is being deprecated eventually, we will loose our main source of out of the box monitoring and telemetry for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain. Fortunately Microsoft has a plan and D365Fo is now able to
Excel Addin - A superpower Since Microsoft released I have made heavy use of a Excel Addin for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain. It is really an amazing tool for performing bulk edits. One of the issues that I see a lot when setting up Du
Azure Risky Logins for Guests A while ago, one of my colleagues contacted me with a login issue. The colleague was trying to log into a customers environment (where she is a guest user) with her company account (from our company). When trying to logi
Basic SKU Public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025 Microsoft has announced that all Basic SKU Public IP addresses in Azure will be retired on 30 September 2025 . If you're currently using Basic SKU IPs, it's time to start planning your upgrade to the Standard SKU to avoi
Using Open Source Software in your Dynamics Implementation The idea of this article started for a couple of reasons: The first thing that happended was that Alex Meyer released his D365FO Admin Toolkit on GitHub. The second thing that happened was that I read the brilliant artic
Troubleshooting Dualwrite Microsoft.Dynamics.Integrator.Exceptions.IntegratorClientException Currently I am in the middle of installing Project Operations for a customer. In order to provide data to Project Operations we need to use Dualwrite to move data from Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain into Datav
Red Flags Hur skall man hantera en incident? Skall man bygga nytt eller skall man laga det som är trasigt. Detta är ämnet i dagens avsnitt Markus Lassfolk @lassfolk http://isolation.se/ Mikael Nyström @mikael_nystrom https://deplo
Sovereign Cloud I detta avsnitt av The Nerd Herd pratar vi om Microsoft blogpost som släpptes i veckan om Soveriegn Cloud och hur man skall hantera europeriska företag i datacenter som ägs av amerikanska företag Blogposterna: https://bl
Accessing DualWrite Settings Today a colleague of mine reached out. He was validating having issues with DualWrite with a customer. When he entered the management page from D365 Finance and Supply Chain he saw this: The easiest way to get access to
Dualwrite - Beware of the reverse I am setting up Dualwrite at a customer and I got an issue the other day. The customer wants to be able to create customers from Dynamics 365 CE and syncing them to Dynamics 365 for FO. We had done all of the initial syn
The Arctic Hackathon experience When I first received the invitation to be a judge at the Arctic Cloud Developer Challenge in Oslo, my initial reaction was one of hesitation: "I've never done this, this is a bit scary." But then I re-framed my thinking
AADSTS50011: The redirect URI 'https://D365FOenv.operations.eu.dynamics.com/' specified in the request does not match the redirect URIs Last week I needed to set up a new Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain environment and I for a strange error message which took some time to figure out. AADSTS50011: The redirect URI 'https://enadvdemo01.operations
Windows Server 2025 I detta avsnitt tar vi oss en titt på en del av de nya funktionerna Windows Server 2025. Eftersom vi inte hinner med allt nytt finne resten i release notes Markus Lassfolk @lassfolk http://isolation.se/ Mikael Nyström @m
WSUS försvinner? I detta avsnitt av The Nerd Hers pratar vi om att Microsoft har sagt att WSUS inte längre kommer att finnas kvar
Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.msdyn_dualwriteentitymapBase' with unique index 'ndx_for_entitykey_Alternate Key'. Surprise... I am back on DualWrite troubleshooting again. I got today's error when I try to move the solution for DualWrite mappting solutions to a new power platform environment. Solution "DualWrite Mapping Solution" fa
Hårt MFA krav för Admins HejHej I detta avsnitt av TheNerdHerd diskuterar vi lite om krav från Microsoft på att alla Global Admins måste ha MFA Markus Lassfolk @lassfolk http://isolation.se/ Mikael Nyström @mikael_nystrom https://deploymentbunny
Article: Using Open Source Software in Your Dynamics Implementation The idea behind this article started for a couple of reasons. The first thing that happened was that Alex Meyer released his D365FO Admin Toolkit on GitHub. The secon
Password Reset I detta avsnitt pratar vi om Password Reset. När man måste göra det, hur man gör det och vad det innebär rent konkret Markus Lassfolk @lassfolk http://isolation.se/ Mikael Nyström @mikael_nystrom https://deploymentbunny.
VMware ESXi I detta avsnitt pratar vi om VMware ESXi och att vissa features ibland inte blir som man tänkt sig Markus Lassfolk @lassfolk http://isolation.se/ Mikael Nyström @mikael_nystrom https://deploymentbunny.com/ Viktor Hedberg
Understanding Electronic Reporting Dependencies I have for a while now meaning to write a blog post about dependencies in Electronic Reporting in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain... and now I finally got a reason since I had a customer that needed to move ER
Required batch job not running One of my customers pinged me a while ago and mentioned that she had notifications in her Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain environment saying that she was missing some batch jobs. Scan for orphaned document referenc
ELPOIT #464 - NTLM är lika gammalt som Doom Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 464 spelades in den 5 Junli och därför så handlar
ELPOIT #463 - Växelkursen är prutt Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 463 spelades in den 28 maj och därför så handlar d
10.0.40 In this episode we discuss the news in the latest release 10.0.40. Among the things we highlight are New workflows for bank account actitvation Customer and Vendor Netting Improve performance and efficiency in Sales Invo
ELPOIT #461 - Som Spidermans nät fast eld Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 461 spelades in den 14 maj och därför så handlar d
ELPOIT #460 - Sievert Öholms Glasögon Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 460 spelades in den 8 maj och därför så handlar da
Worker does not belong to the current legal entity Todays troubleshooting was for a customer where we are implemnting DualWrite. When one of my colleagues was changing then owner of an account in Dynamics 365 CE, the got the following error: {"Write failed for entity Cus
Dynamics Minds 2024 PreShow In this episode we discuss the conference DynamicsMinds in Portoroz in Slovenia in May. Our guests in the episode are Dr. Ludwig Reinhard, Nathan Clouse and André Arnaud de Calavon. We talk about what we will be doing at
ELPOIT 459 - 10 Print "Björn är Bäst", 20 Goto 10 Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 459 spelades in den 1 maj och därför så handlar da
ELPOIT #458 - Vi behöver inte mer utveckling än så här Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 358 spelades in den 23 april och därför så handlar
Interview - Martin Dráb In this episodes we talk to Axapta/AX/D365FO legend, Martin Dráb. Martin works as a Developer and Architect with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain but he ir probably best known for his work on the Microsoft Dynam
ELPOIT #457 - Som fax fast för Internet Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 457 spelades in den 16 april och därför så handlar
ELPOIT #456 - Aktivera Javascript och Cookies Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 456 spelades in den 9 april och därför så handlar
DualWrite Filtering As I have mentioned before I am currently involved in implementing DualWrite with a customer and in this case there is data in CRM and FnO that we need to work around. One example is a "single" contact that is used in mu
ELPOIT #455 - Kilopriset är magiskt Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 455 spelades in den 3 april och därför så handlar
ELPOIT #454 - Pappa, Swisha pengar Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Intro: Johan är stolt för att barnen har förhandlat om piz
Archiving and Long-term retention w Purvesh Vaghasia Today on the podcast we talk to Purvesh Vaghasia, Solution Architect at Microsoft. Purvesh is specifically working on the new Archiving and Long-term retention feature coming in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain.
Fetching App Today I set up Synapse Link to a "Bring Your Own DataLake" for a customer. When I went through the configuration in SynapseLink and I had configured my D365FO Entities the process hung at the status Message "Fetching App
ELPOIT #453 - Idag har jag varit EPISK Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 453 spelades in den 19 mars och därför så handlar
Unable to find my ER Data Package A wee k or so ago, one of my colleagues contacted me from one of our customers. She was setting up VAT reporting for Germany and in the instructions it says that in order to set it up you will need to import a data packa
ELPOIT #452 - Snart är de ikapp Windows Phone Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 350 spelades in den 12 Mars och därför så handlar
Forcing Initial Sync in DualWrite I am currently working on a project where we are implementing DualWrite in existing Dynamics 365 Environments. Since we do not have huge data volumes we decided to use Initial Sync in DualWrite to migrate some data from
Whitelisting IPs for FnO Dev Environments I got a question today from a customer... "Could you show me how to add IPs to the whitelist for our FnO Dev Mashines?".. Here Goes Log in to the Azure Portal Find the Azure VM that you would like to change Go to Network
Interview - Rachel Profitt In this episode we interview Rachel Profitt, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Rachel is currently working on an extensive series of tech talks about business processes. We talk about how Microsoft is building Intr
ELPOIT #451 - Unavailable for legal reasons Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 451 spelades in den 5 mars och därför så handlar d
ELPOIT #450 - Hundvalpar och LLMer Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 450 spelades in den 27 februari och därför så hand
ELPOIT #449 - Hur stavar man Vabruari Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 449 spelades in den 20 februari och därför så hand
ELPOIT #448 - Du kan göra VAD DU VILL Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 448 spelades in den 13 februari och därför så hand
Dynamics 365 2024 Release Wave 1 In this episode, we dive into the latest enhancements in Dynamics 365 that are set to revolutionize the way businesses operate. Join us as we explore new tools and features designed to streamline processes and boost perf
ELPOIT #447 - E-coli Ink Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 447 spelades in den 6 februari och därför så handl
ELPOIT - AI Skola del 1 Detta avsnitt om AI spelades in den 25 januari och i avsnittet pratar vi med Nina Rapp på Microsoft om hur vi kan lära oss använda Generativ AI på bästa sätt. EGNA LÄNKAR - En Liten Podd Om IT på webben, http://enlitenpo
ELPOIT #446 - Gammalt I mitten på 90-talet Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 446 spelades in den 30 januari och därför så handl
Handling internal Vendors in DualWrite At the moment I am involved in a DualWrite implementation between FnO and CE. The goal is eventually to be able to generate Quotes from CE and have them sync to FnO. As you might know there are a lot of entities required
ELPOIT #445 - Fortfarande too soon Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 445 spelades in den 23 januari och därför så handl
Interview - Alex Meyer - D365FOAdmin Toolkit Hi... We start of the new year with a return of Alex Meyer - Microsoft MVP and Senior Manager - Business Application Solutions at Protivity. In this episode he tells us about the new community tool he launched at the beg
ELPOIT #444 - Ett sarkastiskt -ish Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se Avsnitt 444 spelades in den 16 januari och därför så handl
Unable to import users in Cloud Hosted Environment At one of my customers I just set up a couple of new Cloud Hosted Environments (version 10.0.37 which turns out to be important) and when I tried to import the users from EntraID/AzureAD I got the following error Cannot
Cannot access form Sales charge codes I had an issue today at a customer... We were not able to open the Charge code form in one of our environments. When we tried to open the form we also got a couple more error messages. tThe first saying that we could not
Issues with DBsync step during deploy Today, when I was deploying customization package to a newly deployed config environment, I had an issue with a step not working correctly. The environment had not yet been used for anything so I hadn´t even copied a dat
Authentication Method deprecation D365FO WMS NOTE: "Deprecated. As of July 15, 2024, Microsoft will discontinue support for using service-based authentication methods (certificate and shared secret) to connect the Warehouse Management mobile app to Supply Chain Man
Troubleshooting issues with access to Azure Storage Accounts Hi All... I have been in IT for more then 25 years and I still manage to feel extremely stupid way too often... This is definetely one of those moments. Disclamer: I am not an Azure expert... so thi might be obvious, jus
I cannot find my Sharepoint Site in Power Automate Today I helped a customer setting up a Power Automate Flow that needed to freate a folder in a Sharepoint Library. When I clicked the dropdown in the flow step the Site was not there... WT? I entered the URL in Flow and
Help!! I closed the Excel Addin A colleague of mine pinged me today and wondered if there is a way to reopen the Dynamics Excel Addin if you accidentally closed it, other than going back to Dynamics and reopen the file. Since she was nice enough to ask
Extended FnO fields in DataVerse Last week I had an issue with DataEvents. We hav made a change to an entity in FnO and we wanted the new fields for be visible in the JSON message sent by Data Events. We did not get the correct information in the JSON m
Set up the Azure Machine Learning Service for Demand Forecasting - Addendum This article is sort or addendum to the Microsoft Learn articles for setting up Demand Forecasting with Azure Machine Learning. I got the request from one of my colleagues to set this up in out demo environment and as I
Running FnO on a Mac Hi... This week I got a question from one of my oldest friends an I got curious (as one does). The question was: "What are the limitations when running Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain on a Mac?". Since I am not
Issues syncing Sales Order Lines with Dual Write I am doing some experimenting with Synapse Links for Dataverse and to do that I need my FnO data in Dataverse. The way I do it, is using Dualwrite. When I try to sync Sales Order Lines V2 to salesorderdetail s I get the
Data Events issues after refresh In a previous article I wrote a bit about Data Events in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Data Events is a really simple way to create event-based integrations based on changes in the different data entities in F
Finding Electronic reporting files I really like the fact that there is an entire reporting framework built in to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Today I got a questions from a colleague about where the files generated by Electronic Reporting. Si
AX 2012 Reporting Services Troubleshooting - Part 2 In the last post I was troubleshooting the SSRS connection from AX 2012. I was quite happy when the settings validated correctly but I was still not able to run the report... I got this error: Error while setting server
AX 2012 SSRS Troubleshooting Today I got the following message... "Could you just fix the reports on this AX 2012 environment... It is broken" Then I tried to validate the report configuration I got the following error: The SQL Server Reporting Serv
Working with XSD files in AX 2012 Today I got a question from one of my colleagues... The needed to sent a complete AIF port specification to an external service provider and the XSD (XML Schema Description) the could find only contained the internal AX
DualWrite syncing empty lines on Initial Sync I had this strange issue today... One of my customers have set up DualWrite in their DEV environment and after some tweaking it worked OK. With that done they wanted to move the entire solution into TEST and verify that
Not able to activate Data Events for entities Yesterday I looked into an issue for one of my customers. In one of their environments they where not able to activate Data Events for any of their entities. The Activate button was completely grayed out and the "Active
Figuring out DataVerse and DualWrite in Dynamics 365 FnO This is a (probably the first) post to try to sort out my experiences around setting up a DataVerse connection to a Finance and Operations environment and figuring out how this interacts with Power Platform Admin Center,
Enable vs Enabled Features I have learned that it is important to read the fine print... otherwise you will miss things. This happened to me and a colleague the other day. In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Microsoft add new features all
What happened to batch groups?? I need to confess something... Sometime I do not read all of the release notes as thoroughly as I maybe should. This was made clear to me the other day when I tried to set up a batch job and make sure it was executing in
Missing MR report in new legal entity Yesterday a colleague contacted me about missing all of the reports in Financial Reporting (previously Management Reporting). After looking around a bit and doing the mandatory reset of the DataMart (which did not help)
Microsoft 365 add-ins blocked Today one of ´my colleagues had an issue on her customer laptop. The issue was that she was not able to use the "Open in Excel" funcitonality in Dynamics 365 for Operations and Supply Chain. Apparently someone had blocke
Cost for Azure Hosted Build Pipelines In Dynamics 365 For Finance and Supply Chain we rely heavily on Azure DevOps for managing aspects of our projects, especially development and deploying packages. Today a customer told me that they hit the roof on the fre
Uppdating the e-Commerce solution in Dynamics 365 FO A while ago Microsoft launched an e-Commerce platform for Dynamics 365 and they keep release updated versions in line with the OneVersion vision. Since I have not had the opportunity to work a lot with the solution I tho
DMF not creating new project I had a question today regarding a user that, when she tried to create a new Import project in the Data Management Framework, she ended up in an old existing project. We tried to clean out usage data and also restarted t
Azure AD and Elevated Access Today one of my colleagues contacted me around help with Authenticating his LCS project with our Azure AD. He had created his own subscription since he had no access to out top level tenant. When I went into the Azure Po
Missing Azure Subscriptions Today one of my colleagues set up a new subscription in Azure and sent me a link to it. When I tried to access it through the link everything worked but when I tried to find it in the Azure Portal I did not see it: There
User Access issues to Synapse Serverless Views I just set up the CDMUtil for a customer to let them access Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Data, exported to a DataLake, through a serverless instance in Synapse. The customer had added a new user and got an err
Warning:[DWCE0001] Export was skipped. Max lookup count supported in Initial Sync stage is 10. Current lookup count 11 Today I was setting up the Dual-Write sync for one of my customers and I bumped into this error message: Warning:[DWCE0001] Export was skipped. Max lookup count supported in Initial Sync stage is 10. Current lookup count
Missing Warehouse app step instructions in D365FO This week we have been having an issue with the warehouse at a customer. We are in the process of rolling out a new Legal entity and when moving the Legal entity to a new environment using DMF we noticed that the Warehou
Finding the PC name of a POS register In my previous post I showed you how to get the installed version of the POS software on each register. In some cases you might need to manually update this if the update has not worked correctly you will need to connect
Finding current POS package version for registers When doing a version upgrade of the POS registers in a Retail installation it might be necessary to verify if all registers have been updated correctly. If you are running a large organization with multiple hundreds of r
Printing a testpage from PowerShell Todays challenge comes from trying to troubleshoot printers om AX 2012. Some of the printing flows are not that straight forward and might require printing from a service account. If you do not want to log in as that use
Article: DynamicsCon Fall 2021 Preview: Why microservices matter to the future of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365FO) is Microsoft’s latest iteration of their flagship ERP system that used to be called Dynamics AX (and before that Axapta). Over all those years of software evolut
Build Pipelines with D365FO version 10.0.21 Hi all Yesterday Microsoft released the PEAP version of 10.0.21 and on the new VM images they have decided to update a whole lot of stuff (Yay!!). The new VMs are based on Windows Server 2019, SQL Server 2019 and Visual
Package Management in Windows One of my main envies of Linux in the past years have been Apt-Get - the solution for managing installs and updates of software packages. There have been a couple of different solutions available for Windows historically
Fixing: The model version '3.6' is not supported When doing a refresh today of one of our D365FO Dev environments I encountered an issue that puzzled me a bit. I ran the following script to import the BacPac file: cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\DAC\
How to find the session ID in D365FO While communicating with MS today in a support case I needed to get the session ID for a user. I knew that I had done this before but I had forgotten, here is where you find it: If an error occurs the error message will
Using RSAT for regression testing in a Tier-2 environment We have been running an integrated pipeline for RSAT test for a while now but all of the testing has been focused towards stabilizing the tests and minimize noise and false positives. In doing this we have selected to ru
UPDATED: Configuring access for mobile warehousing app in Dynamics 365 for Operations Back in 2018 I wrote an article on how to configure a D365FO instance to enable the Warehousing App. A lot of time has passed and tonight I will set up the all new and improved Warehouse App so I thought I would also tak
ELPOIT #308 -Cold Potato and Hot Potato Routing Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-308 Avsnitt 308 spelades in den 16:e mars 2021 oc
ELPOIT #307 - Vi ser ut som ett pojkband Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också:https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-307 Avsnitt 307 spelades in den 9:e mars 2021 och
ELPOIT #306 - 18 timmar Peppa Pig Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också:https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-306 Avsnitt 306 spelades in den 1:a mars 2021 och
Changes to the release process for D365FO When Microsoft upgrades your Dynamics 365 for Operations Production Environment to a Self-Service environment there are some changes that we need to be aware of. We no longer have a lead time of 5 hours before the deploy
ELPOIT #305 - Hemarbete är en materialsport Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också:https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-305 Avsnitt 305 spelades in den 23:e februari 2021
Adding External Users as Guest Users to Azure AD One of my colleagues had a question today... His customer has split their company in two tenants and their Dynamics 365 for Operations was still in one of the tenant (TenantA). The users in the new tenant (TenantB) neede
ELPOIT #304 - Read the headline, posted angry comment Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-304 Avsnitt 304 spelades in den 16:e februari 202
Validating SSRS settings in AX 2012 fails Tonight one of my colleagues called me having issues with validating the SSRS setup for an old AX 2012 R3 environment. Unfortunately it had been many years since I even touched a 2012 server which meant I had to turn to
ELPOIT #303 - ...och sen förintas man Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-303 Avsnitt 303 spelades in den 9:e februari 2021
ELPOIT #302 - Jag tar på mig min moderiktiga foliehatt Källa för podden: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-302 Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit
ELPOIT #301 - Ibland är jag också inte arg Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-301 Avsnitt 301 spelades in den 26:e januari 2021
ELPOIT #300 - Allt är bara dis Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/elpoit-300 Avsnitt 300 spelades in den 19:e januari 2021
ELPOIT #299 - Alla talar svenska Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-299 Avsnitt 299 spelades in
ELPOIT #298 - Vem vill inte ha en resesnögubbe Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-298 Avsnitt 298 spelades in
En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 297 - 7000kr öronmuffar Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-297 Avsnitt 297 s pelades in
En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 296 - Ta det lungt, det är gott om tid Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-296 Avsnitt 296 spelades in
En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 295 - Grattis Danmark Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-295 Avsnitt 295 spelades in
Understanding $env:PSModulePath OK... So this is probably old news for most of you but I thought I would document this here mostly for me. When you start a powershell prompt whether it being the old and battletested version 5.1, the brand new 7.x or if
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En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 293 - En man måste väl kunna rucka på sina principer… Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-293 Avsnitt 293 spelades in
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En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 290 - Kvarg med skumtomtesmak Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-290 Avsnitt 290 spelades in
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Troubleshooting issues with 3rd party cookies in incognito mode Today one of my colleagues complained that he was not able to log into Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in Incognito mode on Chrome. A couple of seconds after he logs in he is redirected to https://home.dynamics.c
En Liten Podd om IT - Extraavsnitt - Microsoft Ignite 2020 * Svårigheten med online konferens * 1.3.2 Azure Orbital * 4.3.1 New wellbeing and productivity insights and features in Microsoft Teams and Outlook * 4.10.3 New Microsoft Teams experiences improve collaboration and make
En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 284 - Hur många fingrar behöver man Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-284 Avsnitt 284 spelades in
En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 283 - Bing är inte riktigt I närheten Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut (exempelvis om alla länkar saknas. Det ska finnas MASSOR med länkar) så finns de på webben här också: https://www.enlitenpoddomit.se/e/en-liten-podd-om-it-avsnitt-283 Avsnitt 283 spelades in
Troubleshooting Reporting Services in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation Today one of my colleagues contacted me and had problems with the "Report sales tax for settlement period" report in one of our environments. It worked last friday bur not today. The error message was this: When I looked
Office Add-in for Visual Studio crashing when using Open in Office for a DevOps Query Hi... Long Time no see... good to be back I am making heavy use of DevOps queries in my daily tasks as release manager/scrum master at my customer. Especially when it comes to generating release notes. Currently I have a
Problems with Excel AddIn for Azure Devops for Visual Studio 2019 A couple of days ago I reinstalled my computer and since I usually go by "Newer is always Better" I installed Visual Studio 2019. When I was going to generate release notes for our latest release Excel Addin for DevOps d
Special - ISV i Dynamics 365 FO I detta sommarspecialavsnitt pratar vi med Per Skoogh från Signup lite om hur det är att vara ISV i Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Vilka regler måste man förhålla sig till, vilka fördelar restpektive nackdelar
Managing 3rd party session cookies in Chromium Edge In a couple of days I am doing a session at the D365UG Community Summit 2020 and the tool they are using for presenting requires 3rd party session cookies to be allowed. This is a short description on how to do that in C
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Downloading the Teams recording for a Live event Last week we ran a webinar for some customers using Teams Live Events (which is awesome once you learns all the ins and outs). The event is later going to be edited and uploaded online. For that we need the file. To down
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Error: Reponse status 503 - service unavailable when pushing to Azure DevOps artifacts When trying to set up hosted builds for D365FO in Azure DevOps according to this guide posted by Pa ul Heisterkamp i bumped into an issue... in one of the last steps you push the NuGet packages, downloaded from LCS, into
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Certificate issues in D365FO Cloud hosted environment This morning our developers reached out to me telling me that we had certificate issues with two of our environments. The problem with certificates is that they have an expiry date. Since all Dynamics environments are de
Redeploying SSRS reports in D365FO without using Visual Studio Since I am not a developer... especially not an X++ developer I am ususlly not entrusted with access to Visual Studio (this statement was more for dramatic effect but the truth is that I am trying to avoid it to not mess
The macro '@CurrentIteration' is not supported without a team context. Today when writing release notes for my customers latest release I bumped into an issue. I have a query that returns all item in the current Iteration Path with their release notes. The release notes are written in Micro
The Azure DevOps UI for Build Pipelines has changed A quick one today... I was about to deploy a new package today for a customer... and I could not find it... Apparently the UI for DevOps has changed and it took me a while to find the same place. The old UI looked like t
My top 12 items in the Dynamics and Power Platform 2020 Wave 1 Last week Microsoft finally released the complete PDFs with new features of Dynamics 365 and PowerPlatform Wave 1 2020. I browsed through them (all 405 pages of them :-) ) to to try to understand where we are going... he
Fixing SSO hell in browsers I work as a consultant and I often help different customers and since all of them insist on me using their Azure AD (and my employer has their own) I am often getting logged in with the wrong account... or rather I was.
Flow Friday: Getting random row from Excel Finally back for Flow Friday after some much needed rest over the holidays. This week is sort of a proof of concept. There are times when you need to just get a random value. This could be for a lottery or get a random n
RSAT: Failed to download or overwrite attachment files - Some files maybe in use. I had an issue today with one of my testcases in RSAT. When running it manyally from the RSAT UI it worked but when trying to run it from a PowerShell script I got this error: Failed to download or overwrite attachment f
Getting started with VS Code - for a developer wannabe - Part 1 I am a developer... in the same was as I am a gamer and a harmonica player... I really, really really want to be one... I am not good at it, but I really want to be one. I have over the years tried my hand at Powershell,
Creating an App Password for a Azure AD Account using the Office 365 Portal Most organizations today are using Azure AD and the absolute recommendation is to use 2FA in as many scenarios as possible... in some that is not possible... then there is an option to use an application password (this s
Projecting to a Windows PC in 2019 There used to be this app by default in Windows 10 called Connect... this was a brilliant app for all of us presenting things once in a while. The app enabled you to show your phone screen on your PC screen to be able to
Flow Friday: Posting Azure VM Auto Shutdown notifications to Microsoft Teams When you have Azure VMs up and running there is a function to auto shut them down when they are not being used. You can do that in a couple of ways. One of the newer ones is to use the Azure DevTest Labs functionality to
Installing Hass.io on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a RaZberry Z-wave card I was helping a friend today getting his Raspberry Pi prepped for running Hass.io. He mentioned that he could not get it to boot correctly and thought that it had to do with his laptop not being able to create the boot i
Friday Flow: Using Microsoft Forms with Power Automate At the company where I work we regularly have knowledge transfer sessions called Brown Bag Lunches (BBLs) which I think is a great way to share and give back. I am in charge of scheduling these. I wanted automate the pro
Getting Workflow Editor and Management Reporter Editor to work in Chromium Edge When running Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations there are some legacy software built in. These are packaged as ClickOnce applications and will be downloaded every time you run them. In Internet Explorer and the old
Verify all installed hotfixes in AX 2009 Today I need to handle an older system... I need to verify if a hotfix is installed in and older AX 2009 system. I found this instruction online (link below): Here is another way to get the list of installed KBs in AX 20
Issues with blocked cookies in Chromium Edge I have an issue with cookies... And I do have an issue with real cookies... especially oat cookies... but we will not go into that today. Today we are talking about browser cookies. Sometimes they are sort of creepy and
Flow Friday: Troubleshooting 'shared_sharepointonline' doesn't exist When trying to build a flow yesterday I got a confusing error: Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Create_Sprint_Period_in_Sharepoint' inputs at line '1' and column '2778': 'The template language e
En Liten Podd om IT - Avsnitt 242 - Jag var inte sämst och du började slå tillbaka https://www.podbean.com/media/player/e8rw4-c8c9bd?from=yiiadmin&download=1&version=1&skin=1&btn-skin=107&auto=0&share=1&fonts=Helvetica&download=1&rtl=0&pbad=1 Om Shownotes ser konstiga ut så finns de på webben här också
Flow Friday - Troubleshooting Tips This weeks Flow Friday is a bit late... Sorry... Sometimes it can be a bit tricky troubleshoot flows... espesially if you are not fluent in JSON (I'm not). Trying to figure out exactly how to write the formula might some
Issues importing Data Package In one of our environments we had an issue where we were not able to import a data package from a file. When trying the import it simply did not list the entities included in the package. So we tried the usual; restartin
Changing branches for a new sprint In the project I am working on right now we are maintaining two release branches. One for sprint release and one for hotfixes. Every time we release a sprint we are re-targeting the the build pipelines to point to the ne
Setting up notifications in Azure DevOps Today one of the test guys in our project asked if it was possible to get a notification when code was pushed to a specific branch in DevOps... specifically the branch that meant that they needed to test something... thi
Copy database from an Azure Sql Environment to a OneBox environment Here is a checklist to copy a Dynamics 365 for Finance and operations database in from a tier-2 (or above) to a OneBox (Dev, Build or Test). Start by creating a new database as a copy of the original (since you are going
Flow Friday - Adding flagged email to todo list As you all know Microsoft Flow together with Outlook is able to add tasks when you flag an email. In my workflow I am unfortunately not using Microsoft ToDo... I have put all my tasks in Todoist but I think the feature i
Downloading Microsoft Ignite Sessions This year I was not able to visit Microsoft Ignite 2019 but since there are more than 1900 session available for on demand viewing (and I would not have had time to watch the sessions I wanted anyway) that doesn't really
Flow Friday - Feeding news to MS Teams - Part 2 So... Apparently Flow is not Flow anymore :-) Flow is now called Power Automate but since the actual flows still are called flows I will keep the name Flow Friday... Last week we startad posting news to Microsoft Teams..
Themes in Chromium Edge I have started using Microsoft Edge (the Chromium version) and I really like it... Since I am coming from Google Chrome it is not that different except for two main things. The first one is that Microsoft has their own e
How to create a sprint This is mostly a checklist for me to remember how to add new Sprints (Iteration Paths) in Azure DevOps... I tend to forget since it is not done very often Go to Project Settings in Azure DevOps In Project Confiruration c
Flow Friday - Feeding news to MS Teams The other day I asked my colleagues to provide me with good real world problems that I could help them solve in Power Platform. The first challenge was "Could you add news feeds in Microsoft Teams". No problems :-) Creat
Flow Friday: Notifying your a bit extra Today's Flow Friday is a fairly simple one. Since I some times is a bit preoccupied and not able to keep up with my email and I also try to minimize notifications on my phone it would be very nice to have an extra notifi
Issues compiling label files Yesterday evening (why does it always have to be evenings ;-) ) I was going to do a deploy of code to our staging environment. I started the build in Azure Devops and it failed: C:\DynamicsSDK\Metadata\Microsoft.Dynamics
Flow Friday: Sync selected Calendar items between calendars The other day I thought I would make myself use Microsoft Flow more... the best way I could think of was to force my self to write a series of blog posts every week... that should work :-) My first post is a description
Flow Friday: Using Approval Status for Sharepoint lists in Microsoft Flow Tonight I was trying to filter a Sharepoint List based on Approval Status in Microsoft Flow... this turned out to be a bit tricky... maybe even more than a bit. Apparently the column Approval column is a system column an
Bitlocker recovery key in Azure AD At my current job I normally do not handle IT support but since I have a history of doing support my colleagues sometimes asks me for help. Todays issue was a computer with a new motherboard that was missing a Bitlocker
Regression Suite Automation Tool: System.Exception: Microsoft (R) Visual C# Compiler version 4.6.1586.0 for C# 5 I had a really annoying issue today... We are starting use Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT) for test automation in Dynamics 365 for Operations. This tool is using Task Recorder, Business Process Modeller and Azure
Looking at OData in Excel In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations most of the data is represented in Entities which in turn are surfaced as OData feeds for used for integrations. If you need a raw look at the entity you can access the raw ODat
A fantastic Chrome addin if you are using D365FO On of my primary tasks at work every day is maintaining multiple Dynamics 365 for Operations environments for my customer. This means that I often juggle a couple of environments at the same time and often I have to doub
Screenshots in Task Recordings ni Dynamics 365 for Operations The new Task Recorder in Dynamics 365 for Operations is a cool tool. It allows you to create a complete recording of a business process which then can be used for documentation, training and also for automated testing (I
Beware of the BacPac The other day one of my colleagues needed a database copied from PROD to a DEV OneBox. Unfortunately there is no direct route from PROD to Onebox, you need to make a refresh to a Tier-2 environment and then move the data
Tip of the week: Getting rid of Standard View In Dynamics 365 for operations there is a very useful tool called Data Management Framework which is used for import and export of data... A couple of month ago Microsoft introduced a new view called Enhanced View that I
Where are my alerts??? One of my colleagues asked me why she was not able to create an alert for a batch job... Since I wrote a documentation on how to enable alerts some time ago I thought "this will be easy"... Ooooh I was wrong :-). When I
Updating Dynamics 365 FO from 8.0 to 8.1 fails When upgrading, sorry updating, a Dynamics 365 for Operations environment the runbook will fail somewhere around step 57 (I am not sure if it will be 57 every time). I have had this in every environment I have run... it
My entities are missing... One of the crucial concepts in Dynamics 365 for Operations are Data Entities... you use them for basically everything. Data entities is an abstraction on top of the regular database table which aggregates multiple table
Verifying table content in Dynamics 365 for Operations In previous version of AX it has been an easy tack to habve a look at the data for any given installation. You simply logged in to to the SQL Server used by AX, started Management Studio and executed your SQL statement.
Setting up PowerBI embedded and Analytical workspaces in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in a OneBox Environment One of the cool features in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation are Analytical workspaces which enables Dynamics to display PowerBI workspaces inside of the Dynamics UI which also means that you are able to use the in
Setting a Dynamic 365 for Operations cloud hosted environment in Maintenance mode Some configurations in Dynamics requires you to be in Maintenance Mode. Some of these are: Activating dimensions Changing license keys The limitations of maintenance mode is that you will need to be Admin or maintenance
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Unified Operations: Batch Management Service (DynamicsAxBatch) When running the DataUpgrade Package in D365FO it stopped at step 7 with this error message: 'Microsoft Dynamics 365 Unified Operations: Batch Management Service (DynamicsAxBatch)' Looking in the Event Viewer Application
Adding users WITHOUT an Azure AD Accounts to Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Normally when using Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations all you users are part of an Azure AD. This is created when ordering your license and is used for authentication. This AD is either stand-alone or synced with y
Force running distribution jobs in Dynamics 365 for Operations Retail When working with retain in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, distribution jobs are used for moving data between Channel Database and the "AX" transaction database. The jobs with the prefix P are inbound to AX and
Call to TTSCOMMIT without first calling TTSBEGIN when installing a Deployable package I just got an issue when running the DataUpgrade package to 8.1 form the command prompt in a Cloud hosted environment. The package failed on Step 6 with this error: Application configuration sync failed. Microsoft.Dynami
Editing an runbook that fails Today I had an issue with installing a deployable package from the sommand prompt. When the runbook tried to stop the Retail Server i got the following error on step 1: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007
Configuring a LCS Repository for Electronic Reporting in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Microsoft provides a large repository for Electronic Reports. These cover a lot of scenarios but for those scenarios that requires custom reports you can use LCS to store these
Resetting the DataMart in Financial Reporting for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations There is a universal solution for most problems in Financial Reporting (used to be Management Reporter) and that is to reset the DataMart. The DataMart is an internal data warehouse for Financial Reporting and when somet
Renaming a OneBox Dev environment Hi Tonight I helped one of my developer colleagues who had issues with one of his DEV environments. The issue was that he had renamed the VM (you cannot have multiple machines in Azure DevOps with the same name). The pro
Uninstalling Excel Addin This one was an annoying one... I had to help a customer uninstall the Excel addin for Dynamics 365 for Operations. This should be a simple task (everything is if you know how to do it). So I went into Excel Add-ins usin
En Liten Podd Om It - Avsnitt 181 - Vi har tur när vi lyckas tänka rätt [podbean resource="episode=z4p8m-98cab8" type="audio-rectangle" height="100" skin="1" btn-skin="107" share="1" fonts="Helvetica" auto="0" download="0" rtl="0"] Detta är avsnitt 181 och spelades in den 2 september , och e
En Liten Podd Om It - Avsnitt 180 - Vi som inte såg Glenmark, Eriksson och Strömstedt Detta är avsnitt 180 och spelades in den 26 augusti , och eftersom 180 : FEEDBACK OCH BACKLOG: * IKEA Trådfri väggvårta kommer i oktober * HASS.io knapp för att starta och stänga av servrar * Prisjakt för att filtrera *
En Liten Podd Om It - Avsnitt 179 - Tomater är inte gott, punkt [podbean resource="episode=uwvzr-97a1b9" type="audio-rectangle" height="100" skin="1" btn-skin="102" share="1" fonts="Helvetica" auto="0" download="0" rtl="0"] Detta är avsnitt 179 och spelades in den 19 augusti , och ef
En Liten Podd Om IT - Avsnitt 178 - Det var ett kul avsnitt, men... [podbean resource="episode=yujt5-9722d7" type="audio-rectangle" height="100" skin="2" btn-skin="102" share="1" fonts="Helvetica" auto="0" download="0" rtl="0"] Detta är avsnitt 178 och spelades in den 12 augusti , och ef
Internal Error occurred executing stored procedure when creating session for the AOS This is one I should have written down a long time ago... When setting up a new database for AX 2012 and I am trying to start the service I am getting the following error: Internal Error occurred executing stored procedu
Blocking sessions in Azure SQL Some environments in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations are using Azure SQL. In LCS you can see blocked sessions for the environment but you are not able to do anything about them. To solve the issue you need to log
SSRS using wrong configuration Everything that is printed in AX 2012 is using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). It does this by connecting to AX when it is told to and gets the data. To find the settings for the AX Server it normally uses the defa
Problems accessing the /reports website in Dynamics 365 VMs Hi Today I had an issue trying to access the classic reports folder for SSRS in a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations VM hosted in Azure. When connecting to the site we used http://[VMname]/reports and all we get is
Copy database from a OneBox environment to an Azure Sql Environment Most of this post is a copy of the Microsoft Article (which is referenced below) but with my remarks, clarifications adn some changes for making the process easier. 1. Create a Backup copy of the Source database BACKUP D
Moving SQL tempdb to another drive Today I urgently needed to move tempdb from one drive to another to free up space. So I googled to find a script and found this one by Brent Ozar. It has been added to StackExchange and refined a bit. DECLARE @newDriveAn
Copy database from a OneBox environment to another OneBox Environment This document is a check-list I have compiled on moving a database from one OneBox environment to another. Microsoft does not have a document for this scenario so I have compiled information from multiple blog posts. 1.
Enabling Batch Alerts in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Today we will look at Alerts in Dynamics. First you need to set up SMTP in Dynamics. Go to System Administration – Setup – Email – Email Parameters Configure settings for your email service, in our case Office 365 Click
Installing a deployable package in Dynamics 365 for Operations using command-line Today we will be installing a deployable package using command line… this article is mostly for creating a condensed version for my own use… for a complete version please look at the link at the bottom of the page 1. Fro
Configuring access for mobile warehousing app in Dynamics 365 for Operations Today I am setting up the mobile warehouse app in Dynamics 365 for Operations… there is a very nice Wiki article here with the walkthrough but I am doing a slightly condensed version. Edit 180108: Step has been edited to
Using the Retail Reprovisioning tool for Dynamics 365 for Operations When you do any kind of copying between environments in Dynamics there are some settings which are copied that are actually wrong for the destination environment. To fix these you need to run a tool called Retail Reprovi
Retail servicing data is not present in the RetailServer web.config when running Retail Retargeting tool Thi is an issyue we have noticed on especially new environments that we have refreshed with a database from an existing Retail Enable environment. After refreshing the database we need to run the retargeting tool to make
Azure SQL SqlPackage error Today I tried to do a restore of database to an Azure DB in a Dynamics 365 for Operations environment. When I ran SQLPackage.exe I got the following error: 'Unable to connect to master or target server 'AxDB_New'. You mu
Providing a clean database in upgrade mode for AX 2012 When we upgrade to AX 2012 the destination database needs to be in “upgrade mode” othewise the upgrade checklist it not triggered correctly. This can be done in one of two ways… either you check “Register this database f
Running out of space on a Dynamics 365 for Operations Vm in Azure When setting up environments for Dynamics 365 for Operation in Azure you are using a tool called LCS (Life Cycle Services). This allows you to set up VMs in different sizes and once the are up it does not allow you to ch
UPDATED: Mapping the Azure Storage Blob to a Drive Letter in Explorer When working with Dynamics machines in Azure you might want to move database backups from one VM to another and since they are not on the same network it is i little trickier. One option is to move the file using RDP… we
Detailed Version Information in LCS When contacting Microsoft Support about Dynamics 365 for Operations they often ask you for the version information for an environment. We have been having an issue with seeing it for our Cloud Hosted Environments… it sim
Backup Azure SQL database In working with Dynamics 365 for operations one is exposed to Azure SQL. Azur SAL works a bit differently than the “regular old” SQL and one of those areas is backup. To backup a database in Azure SQL I use one of two me
Error importing Electronic Reporting Configurations Hi… Today we are looking at an issue that one of my colleagues had. This is actually an Application issue but I am writing it up for future reference. When we are importing Electronic Reporting configuration in Dynamics
Error in Environment Reprovisioning tool I have been working with an upgrade of Dynamics 365 for Operations now for a while and found an issue when it comes to Environment Reprovisioning tool, also known as Retail Retargeting Tool. This is a tool used to fix th
Issues after Database copy Yesterday we did a database refresh between two of our Non-Production OneBox environments an this morning I got an email. The users where having problem viewing invoices in All Sales Orders. The error they got looked lik
Database Syncing Hi… Today we are doing a DB upgrade in Dynamics 365 for Operations. One of the steps in the process includes installing a hotfix which in turn triggers a database sync. The Sync failed so I tried to find a way to run it
The Real-Time Service call Failed when trying to use CloudPoS One of my colleagues contacted me today about an issue. When he was logged into the Dynamics 365 for Operations Cloud POS and he tried to perform a “Real-Time Operation” such as resetting a password he got this error: To
Activating Dynamincs AX 2012 VMs deployed to Azure from LCS Our company has retired all of our lab hosts which we used to have internally which means thet we need to have our lab servers on Microsoft Azure. To install the servers we use LCS (Lice Cycle Services) which deploys a V
Issues with Retail Layout designer One of my colleagues had an issue accessing the Screen Layout designer in the AX Client and I was a bit confused… it worked for me… This turned out to be two separate issues. The first one was that he and I was logged in
Email errors in AX 2012 R2 One of my customers have migrated to new servers for their AOSes, these are brand new Windoews Server 2012 R2 servers… nice. We hade one issue though… When trying to send emails using batch from a batch jog we got the fo
The given value of type String from the data source cannot be converted to type nvarchar of the specified target column when syncing Retail Data to Channel Database One of our customer are going to use the AX 2012 R3 Retail solution and the setup of the Async Server – Client in the TEST environment was setup and tested. The application consultants started importing the product data
System.InvalidOperationException: The given value of type String from the data source cannot be converted to type datetime of the specified target column. I had an issue today with the sync between Async Server and Client. Some of the jobs worked and some threw an error Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.StoreConnect.Request.SQLHandler.ProcessSourceRequestHeaderException: ProcessTa
RetailCDXMonDataSync object not initialized when processing Status Messages in AX 2012 Retail Todays issue is regarding AX 2012 Retail… When I try to Process status messages under Retail – Inqueries – Download sessions i get the following error First I found some hints online that it had to do with the Working Fo
Trying to give my AX 2012 demo VM in Azure Internet Access Today little issue was a bit frustrating…. to say the least I have set up a new AX 2012 Vm in Azure for my colleagues to do some troubleshooting on. The need to install a Hotfix there and thus needs Internet Access from
Changing the certificate used for Channel database sync in AX 2012 Retail I have been trying the past couple of bays to get retail up and running on the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 demo environment. There are some issues in the default environment that needs to be fixed before everything is
Error Doing a Full Data Sync Today I am setting up a proof of concept for the retail solution in AX 2012 R3. As a base I am using the Microsoft AX 2012 R3 demo VM deployed to Azure using LCS When Trying to do a full data sync I got the following err
PowerBI breaks Workflow Editor and Report Editor I am so sorry about the click bait title… I could not resist Todays adventure consists of troubleshooting why Report Editor and Workflow Editor stopped working in our Dynamics 365 for Operations environment. First som hi
Mobile Workspaces in Dynamics 365 for Operations Was looking today for a way to test mobile workspaces in Dynamics 365 for Operations (still no good abreviation). This is a bit hidden. To be able to create a mobile workspace you log into D365O. Once you have logged in
Error when syncing DataMart - Invalid column name 'PARTITION'. Invalid column name 'Key_'. Todays issue is a problem with integrating Management Reporter CU 15 with AX 2012 R3. When doing the initial integration we got this error: Invalid column name 'PARTITION'. Invalid column name 'Key_'. and the integration
Configure PowerBI for Dynamics 365 for operations Today I helped two of my colleagues setting integrating Power BI for Dynamics 365 for operations. There are a couple of guides online which I have used to create this post, but I thought I would create one from my experi
Using IFTTT to create a blog post draft in Wordpress Blog I am always trying to create a workflow and automation around things in my life and I am also trying to develop an efficient way of working. One of the things I have started doing is keeping the things I should do in my
Updating a secondary AOS instance Today one of my colleuges had an issue with applying a hotfix in a customers environment. The environment had three AOS instances installed on the same server which had the correct version and they installed a fourth one
Problems with Event viewer messages for AX Quite ofter when I look in the eventviewer I can see issues that the Event ID text does tell me anything other than it is not possible to show the message. I got this today at a customers that is running AX so I descided
Issues with LCS System Diagnostics I am working with a customer today and we are setting up LCS System Diagnostics on their AX 2012 R3 environment. They have quite a locked down environment which presents some challenges. First of all we need to open outg
Can not create default Keyset when using AXBuild We have a large deploy with a customer this week which is a very bad time for AXBuild to stop working… really bad time. And ofcourse that is what happened (screw you Murphy). There are of course other ways to to a compil
CREATE TABLE permission denied in database ‘tempdb’ This morning we had an incident with a customer who during the night had failed over their SQL cluster during the night and then failed it back again and now AX had stopped working. The error was this: The problem is tha
Problems using Excel Workbook Creator in AX “7” We have started working with some customers who are looking into implementing The New Dynamics AX (aka AX 7) and one of the very useful features in AX are integration with the Microsoft Office. This has historically been
SQL Express and the missing config file When you install Microsoft SQL Server the install generates a configuration file. This is great if you want to create an unattended install of SQL. If you want to do a second install (or third or fourth…) just run: Setup
AX 2009 Firewall Issues Today we are looking into an AX 2009 install… If you install AX 2009 on a server with the Firewall enabled the setup program will create a new firewall rule called Dynamics AX 5.0-[AXInstanceName]. This would be all good
Using Office Integration in Dynamics AX Today one of my customer had trouble using the Excel Workbook Designer in Dynamics AX (“7”). He got the following error when he tried opening the workbook in Excel: The Error is No Applet Registration found Turns out he
Enabling the demo users in Microsoft Dynamics AX Today a customer asked me if the could get a user and test Microsoft Dynamics AX (for search engine reasons i will add AX7) in our demo environment. The customer does not use Azure Active Directory yet and this made thin
Adding users from another AAD tenant to AX7 In AX 2012 and prior it was a little tricky to add external users. You basically could not, so you needed to add an Active Directory Account to your AD and import it as a AX user. You might not want to add external users
Exporting to Excel in AX7 So, last week Microsoft released the RTW version of the new AX version called Microsoft Dynamics AX. One of my colleagues was playing around with it a bit and bumped into a problem. When he tried to export to Excel he go
Workflow issues in “AX 7” Onprem Demo environment We have set up the new AX demo environment on our Hyper-V lab environment. Most of the features are running fine but there are some issues which we are trying to fix as they arise. Today my colleague was trying to edit a
Sharepoint Detective work Today I was looking at a malfunctioning Sharepoint (for enterprise Portar) the problem was that it could not find the database for either configuration or content which meant that it was pretty much screwed. I am not the
Restarting the Software Update Checklist Today I did an inplace upgrade of AX 2012 CU 8 to CU 10 and found myself having a strange issue. As part of the upgrade you need to complete a checklist including such things as Compile application and detect conflicts…
Creating a crash dump of a crashing service Once in a while it happens that processes and services crashes and when they do you will need a dump. There are some ways to do this using for instance Sysinternals ProcDump , but at some of our customers they have polic
The DefaultValue expression for the report parameter ‘AX_CompanyName’ contains an error: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.EnvironmentPermission This is a follow up to the last post regarding Reports in AX. When I tried the report I published I got an other error: The DefaultValue expression for the report parameter ‘AX_CompanyName’ contains an error: Request for
rsItemNotFount in AX 2012 So this one involves Reporting Services and AX. One of my customers had an issue printing a report today and the error he got was that the report did not exist. I checked the SSRS web UI and sure enough I could see it… T
Force Azure to login using Microsoft Account I have a Microsoft Account which is the same as my company account… normally this works very good and you get to choose which one to use (not right now though and that is why there is no screenshot). At this moment I do
rsAccessDenied error when running reports in AX Today we look at a tiny issue… Permissions in problems. I got an email from a user containing the following error message: This is quite a simple problem… with (in this case) a little twist. The customer is not using the
Installing Security Development Tool for AX 2012 R3 Today I am installing Security Development Tool in one of our lab environments. First of all you need to download the tool from LifeCycle Services . When you have the file msi file it is time to do the install Start by r
Installing Management Reporter and connecting it to AX 2012 R2 If you use Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Management Reporter is included from the beginning. It is simply a feature you add from the install application. Prior to AX 2012 R2 you will need to download the install from Microsoft an
Installing Dynamics AX 2012–Good to know Today I am doing some testing and installing Dynamics AX 2012 R3… Here are some notes on the install (more will be added) On my first test the install failed hard. It seemed that the install of OAS worked and that the re
Instaling .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012… without install media Today I hade a small issue a a customer which I thought I write down since repetition is a good thing… I was installing SQL on a Windows Server 2012 and I needed .NET Framework… this tends to be a little tricky since I d
Microsoft Band and Web Tiles Edit (10/7 2015): Added Images To day MS announced a thing that was pretty cool... The ability to easily add an information stream to your Microsoft Band. All you need is an RSS feed and an icon image file... lets do it
Geek Trick: Custom "New Tab Page" in Google Chrome Yesterday I signed up for WunderList (since Microsoft bought it i thought I'd give it a try) and I noticed that there were a Extension in the Google Chrome store which displays my Wunderlist as a "New Tab Page". That got
Download all Ignite sessions... Using oneget... Hi Today I will highlite a couple of things... First of all: If you have not used OneGet (which comes with Windows 10) you should definately take loog at it. It lets you install software and powershell modules from diffe
Using OneNote to post blogs in WordPress I have for a while now been using Windows Live Writer to create Blog Posts on my WordPress Blog. Since Windows Live Writer is not beeing updated "alot" any more I have been trying to find a replacement for a while now. I
Slow file browsing on Windows 7 with DFS and Offline Files Today I troubleshooted a problem at a customer that we are migrating. They are running Windows 7 and their file shares are presented through DFS. All of the clients are using Folder Redirection and the laptops are also u
Set up Site-to-Site VPN from pfSense and Microsoft Azure Today I have played around a little with Azure Site-2-Site VPN… I do not have a high-end (or for that matter low end) Cisco firewall to test with so I set it up in my lab firewall which is running pfSense. First of all y
Using port mirroring in Hyper-V Today I had an issue at a customer site when setting up DIrectAccess… I could not get Teredo to work. I fired up Wireshark on the server but could not see any Teredo traffic. There is an external firewall between the DA
Getting started with Desired State Configuration – Part 2 In the first part we got DSC up and running with some custom modules. In this part we will start using some of the built in modules. We start by creating a Configuration. In this case we want to create a configuration fo
Configuring Filtering in AADSync If you don’t want to sync your entire Active Directory to Azure/Office 365 you can in the new AADSync set up a OU filter. Here is a short Checklist Start Synchronization Service Manager Go to Connectors Select Properties
Getting started with Desired State Configuration – Part 1 I have been thinking a long time about forcing myself to learn Desired Stat Configuration (DSC), but I haven’t gotten around to it… Now is the time Desired State Configuration is this super cool technology that appeared
Troubleshooting Windows Server Boot Problem The other day at a customer I had the following problem One of their physical machines had a problem starting. When trying to boot it went straight to System Recovery Options… not good I tried all of the alternatives suc
Questions from class: Centrally configure the start screen in windows 8.1 One question I got in yesterdays class was: How do I customize the start screen for my Windows 8.1 users? The answer is: You can use Powershell and the registry to set this up. Start by logging in to a computer and set u
2W – It management for SMBs Tack alla för att ni deltog igår på Second Wednesday… Här kommer länkar och presentationer: WiFi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2012/05/30/creating-a-sec
Problems starting a VM in Hyper-V Today in our lab, when we tried to start one of our VMs we got the following error 'vm-xx' could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: 'Element not found.'(0x80070490). Surprisingly easy fix: Shut down or save a
Nice to know: What is going on during logon When you are logging onto a Windows machine you will sometimes notice that it is taking a long time… usually you just blame GPOs and move on… If you want to get a hint on what´s taking so long you can set a GPO setting w
Active Directory Based Activation In Windows 2012 there is a new method of activating Windows Servers/Clients and Office. The method is called Active Directory Based Activation and is an alternative to KMS and MAK activation. It works by adding a Activat
Geek Tricks – Typing the contents of the clipboard At work we are running Azure Pack which has this cool feature that you can connect directly to the Console from the web portal… it has one drawback though… you cannot paste into it :-( That is a problem if you have a VM
Windows Server Essentials DHCP Quirk This weekend I have been playing around with my Essentials Server at home. I was setting up a new domain and since I was setting up a second DC I thought: Why not set up another DHCP server when I am at it… Reasonable? I
Password Reset in RDWeb Today I will take a short look at enabling password reset using the rdweb component in Windows Server 2012. This functionality is built in to Remote Desktop but it it not enabled by default. In this article we will look
Geeky Tricks: Replace Cmd with Powershell Today when I was recording a Podcast, me and my co-hosts got into a discussion about if it was possible to replace cmd with Powershell in Windows (The reason for the discussion is that the keycombination Win + R, cmd, En
Questions from class: How do I block Windows 8.1 update on my clients This week I held a class at LabCenter and I get a question: I would like to block the Windows 8.1 Update from windows store, how do I do? The answer is: Open Regedit and set HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsStore
Manage Local Admin Passwords – Additional Comments Todays work consists of implementing a system for managing local admin passwords for Servers and Workstations in an Active Directory Environment. I have used the method in the following (excellent) article series from th
AD Demotion I am currently helping a customer with upgrading all of their old DCs. When I tried to demote one of the DCs I got the following error message: Title bar text: Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard Message
ADFS 3.0 with Windows XP (??) Clients Today I spent the day at a customers looking at a XP computer (I know they are supposed to be extinct) having problems authenticating using ADFS. As we know XP is using IE8 and IE8 in combination with XP does not support
The User Profile Service service failed the logon in Microsoft Exchange I do not know how many times I said to myself that I should write a post about this problem Sometimes when trying to log on to an Exchange 2010 server, you receive the following error message: The User Profile Service se
“The User Profile Service service failed the logon” på Microsoft Exchange Jag vet inte hur många gånger jag sagt till mig själv att jag skall skriva en post om detta problem Ibland när man försöker logga in på en Exchange 2010 server kan man få upp följande felmeddelande: The User Profile Serv
MDM för Intune – del 4 I den här delen skall vi kika på hur vi ansluter en iOS enhet till Intune Börja med att klicka på Upload an APNs cetificate Ladda ner certifikatsförfrågan genom att klicka Download the APNs certificate request och spara
MDM för Intune – del 3 Vi har i tidigare postningar konfigurerat grunderna för MDM i Windows Intune och lagt till en Windows Phone… Nu skall vi kika på hur man gör för att ansluta en Android telefon. Tidigar har man enbart kunnat hantera Andro
MDM för Intune – del 2 I förra delen gjorde vi grunduppsättnignen för MDM i Windows Intune. I denna del kikar vi på hur vi lägger till en Windows Phone 8 enhet i Intune Vi börjar med att gå till Windows Phone 8 segmentet i Intune För att kunna
MDM för Intune - del 1 Jag tänkte på att dokumentera lite av MD funktionaliteten i Windows Intune. Först tänkte jag börja med hur man aktiverar portalen för att sedan kika på hur man lägger till respektive mobil OS… I denna första post gör vi
Avinstallera Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 Connectorn Liten kortis idag… Jag sitter och felsöker en Windows Server 2012 Essentials R2 och vill avinstallera Connectorn från en klient… det var dock inte helt uppenbart. Förr fanns den i Add/Remove programs men nu har den flytt
Windows 8/8.1 hjälp och tips… I Windows 8 och 8.1 finns det en del tips (vissa påstår att det är för få) på hur man skall använda gränssnittet. I Windows 8 är det en film som envisas med att spelas när man loggar in första gången och i Windows 8.1 är
Konstiga beteenden för Get-ADUser Dagens problem har med Get-ADUsers att göra… De flesta miljöer jag arbetar i är uppgraderade till 2012 eller senare men just denna kund har inte uppgraderat… Dagens uppdrag var att skapa en CSV export av AD användare så
Windows Intune Länkar Jag har vid ett antal tillfällen råkat ut för att man sätter upp ett Intune testkonto. När man är klar hamnar man i konsolen där man kan skapa användare och tilldela licenser. När man är klar där klickar min sig vidare t
Exchange certificate problems… Idag satt jag och meckade lite med Exchange och försökte lösa ett problem med autodiscover Felet är nåt i stil med: The certificate common name *.contoso.com doesn’t validate against the mutual authentication string that
Too many devices… Idag har jag stött på ett angenämt problem… Jag har för många tekniska gadgets. En del av er säger säkert att det är omöjligt… men enligt Microsoft Excahnge går gränsen vid 10… Lösningen är ganska enkelt. Bärja med att s
Stand-alone Remote Desktop Idag fick jag ett samtal från en kund som hade lite problem med att sätta upp en stand-alone Terminal Server i Windows Server 2012… Problemet var att i 2012 saknas se verktyg man är van att använda i 2008 R2 för att admi
Application request routing PÅ Windows Server Essentials 2012 Jag har en Windows Server Essentials 2012 server hemma för min interna "produktionsmiljö". Som de flesta andra sitter jag på en vanlig internetlina med en dynamisk adress så jag funderade lite om man kunde använda Applic
Tech Min blogg är både en privat blogg och en plats där jag sparar intressanta teknikartiklar. På förstasidan hamnar alla artiklar men om man bara är intresserad av min tekniska information så kan man välja rubriken/kategorin
Mail i Windows Server Essentials Idag skall vi kolla lite på Mailmöjligheter i Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Om vi skall integrera mail har vi tre primära möjligheter i Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Jag säger primära eftersom vi givetvis skulle kunn
MDT SQL problem… Man är inte så lite glömsk Idag satt jag och stångade skallen blodig mot ett problem… Min MDT 2012 ville inte koppla upp sig mot min databas. Rättigheterna stämde, brandväggen öppnad på port 1433… vad strular nudå?? Lite fakta om min installation
Filmer… Jag har sedan en tid spelat in ett antal filmer för Microsofts räkning. Filmerna behandlar installation och konfiguration av utvalda funktioner i Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 och Microsofts Online tjänster… nu finns de
Problem med Exchange Active Sync på Android 4.2.2 För ett tag sedan passade jag på att uppdatera min Android telefon till den senste versionen. Detta resulterade i att min telefon slutade synka epost. Det enda som hände var att när jag startade epost applikationen sa de
Network Level Authentication… på XP! En av mina kollegor kontaktade mig idag och sa att han försökte koppla upp sig mot vår labmiljö från kund… på en Windows XP maskin!!!! Problemet är att alla våra servrar är Windows Server 2008 R2 eller senare så de kräve
Check Hyper-V replication status using Powershell One of my colleges sent me this little snippet today for easily checking replication status on the VMs on our hyper-v host… I modified it for checking multiple hosts: Get-VMReplication -computername HOST1,HOST2,HOST3 | s
Running ASP on Windows Server 2012 I got a question today in running ASP pages in IIS 8 on Windows Server 2012… the person I talked to had looked around but did not find it… It is apparently under a heading called Application Development
Presentationer från SMB Summit 2012 Hejsan alla deltagare på SMB Summit 2012... här kommer äntligen en länk till de presentatoner som visades...
Continous file share are having problems with 8.3 names… Who doesn´t! Me and my colleague was troubleshooting a broken cluster today… apparently the new continous file share in Windows Server 2012 does not like the old 8.3 file name format. You can use fsutil to clean this up: fsutil 8dot3
How to monitor Windows 2008 R2 Servers from Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 This will be a very short and sweet description on how to monitor Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2012 Start by installing .NET 4 Framework on the 2008 R2 Server Install Windows Management Framework 3.0 in the
Back to basics – FSMO Roles Today in class I hade a student who had a Windows Server 2012 Essentials migration that did nor succeed. The reason was that the FSMO move did not complete. To list all the FSMO roles using NTDSutil: 1: ntdsutil: roles 2
Force update of Exchange 2010 address lists If you add a new mailbox or a distribution list to your Exchange 2010 server you need to either wait for the address lists to update you can force them to update. In the Exchange management prompt run: Get-GlobalAddressL
Network Time Protocol Today I would like talk a little about setting up NTP sync in Active Directory… as you might know time is quite important in Active Directory because Kerberos is dependant on it. If the time difference is higher than 5 m
Creating new Active Directory objects with Windows Server Essentials where the belong To day we are going to take a look at a little strange behavior in Windows Server 2012 Essentials. But first we need to look back to remember our history… Back on SBS 2003/2008/2011 Standard the install created an OU str
AD Powershell FSMO Removal If you want to remove all FSMO roles from a server: Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity Magneto -OperationMasterRole RIDMaster,PDCEmulator,SchemaMaster,InfrastructureMaster,DomainNamingMaster /Johan
Installing Windows Server 2012 Essentials Microsoft has released a public beta version of Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Today I am going so show you the setup experience. The first screens are exactly the same as Windows Server 2012. So, when the Windows insta
Avsnitt 29 - Semesteravsnittet I dag tar vi oss en till på semesterfirande... Som stressad IT-pro måste man kunna slappna av på sin semester, njuta av det fina vädret, besöka lite turistattraktioner, kanske bada lite och ta en glass då och då... Vi pa
Server 2012 Licensing Changes Microsoft just released the Licensing for Windows Server 2012. This is a write up as far as I have understood so far. Just to clarify… this is my interpretation and I will of cource edit it if I find out I missed somethi
Adding and removing the GUI in Windows Server 2012 In Windows Server 2008 R2 you could select whether you wanted to run Standard (GUI) och Core version of Windows Server. In Windows Server 2012 the GUI is a feature which you can add or remove. To remove the GUI you use t
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 28 - MDT 2012 Update 1 och Windows 8 Hej på er, (more episodes in English will follow... but this particular one is in Swedish) Dax igen för the Nerd Herd… idag skall vi kika lite närmare på den kommande uppdateringen till MDT 2012, nämligen Update 1. Den i
TrueSec on The Scripting Guys As you might know Microsoft has a site called The Scripting Guys . My colleague Niclas Goude will be writing a couple of guest blogs on The Scripting Guys regarding security from the 2:nd to the 6:th of July. The specifi
Intel® PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter and VLANs I have my own lab server at home and the other day I finally reinstalled it with Windows Server 2012 RC. One of the NICs in the server is an Intel® PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter which is connected to a VLAN trunk in one of
MDT 2012, ADK and Windows 7 I you are using the ADK Beta and MDT 2012 to install Windows 7 you will get the following error: The procedure entry point ??0WString2@@QAE@XZ could not be located in the dynamic link library X:\windows\system32\wbem\fas
Windows Server Solutions BPA Update Rollup 3 Microsoft just released a new rollup to Windows Server Solutions Best Practice Analyzer. This BPA performes in total 202 different checks on Small Business Server 2011 Std/Ess, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials a
Sessions, Sessions, Sessions… I did not have the possibility to visit eighter MMS or TechED North America this year but fortunately Microsoft makes all the sessions available for download. The problem is that it takes a lot of time to download the on
Uppgredera CompanyWeb i efterhand När man migrerar till SmallBusiness Server 2011 tar man som bekant en backup av Sharepoint databasen från den gamla servern och återställer den i den nya servern. Man använder sedan följande kommando för att koppla upp d
Filmtajm… För alla er som har lite lite att göra på påsklovet har min kollega Mikael Nyström spelat in lite film… kanske kan vara nåt för fredagsmyset Adminkonsol demo - SBS 2011 Essentials + Office 365 integration - Film 1av2 SBS
Ubuntu 12.04 kommer att levereras med drivrutiner för Hyper-V. Detta innebär att man slipper mickla med integration components. http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=12277
Reset av Offline Files i Windows 7 Det händer ibland att man har kvar rester fån tidigare offline folders som synkas en gång i tiden. Man har sedan tagit bort servern och får därmed en massa felmeddelande i synccenter. Microsoft har publicerat en artikel
The Nerd Herd – Avsnitt 18 – Drivers, drivers, drivers I dag kikar vi lite på detta elände som kallas drivrutiner… Hur minskar man pinan att hantera dem… var hittar vi dem och hur laddar vi ner dem. Dell Business Client Operating System DeploymentCCTK HP SoftPaq DownloaderHP
Komihåg: PSConfig efter installation När man installerar patchar på Sharepoint 2010 i SBS 2011 måste man köra psconfig för att allt skall fungera som det skall: PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatu
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 17 - Tankad, Packad och Klar! Vi är nu ÄNTLIGEN tillbaka med ett nytt avsnitt… I det här avsnittet kollar vi lite närmare på hur vi packar applikationer för utrullning och vilka applikationer vi använder. IExpress – ingår i windows och skapar enklare
Print Spooler crashar... Idag befinner vi oss i printerträsket... På en maskin jag felsökte idag crashade printspoolern så for jag försökte göra något. Jag har varit inne och rensat upp på följande ställen: c:\windows\system32\spool\printers c:\
iSCSI för Homeserver Hittade denna artikel i min feed i morse… Företaget IntelliSAN har släppt en addin till Windows Home Server 2011 som gör att du kan använda din Windows Homeserver som ett iSCSI SAN. Produkten är än så länge i beta och om
Boot from VHD Jag har suttit och stirrat mig blind på BCDedit så jag tänkte att jag skall skriva ner det här en gång för alla. bcdedit /copy {default} /d "Namn på Boot Entry" BCDedit returnerar en {GUID} kopiera denna och stoppa in de
När installerades min dator?? Hejsan Idag blir det en liten kortis. Hur tar jag reda på när datorn jag sitter vid senast installerades om? systeminfo | find /i "install date" Edit: För att kolla en remote maskin använder man: systeminfo /s remotemach
SBS Essentials får äntligen sin Office 365 integration Jag är mycket glad att kunna meddela att Microsoft äntligen släppt en beta av Office Integration Module som är en integrationsmodul mot Office 365. Modulen är tänkt att förenkla administrationen av användare i SBS Essent
Robocopy mellan Windows och Novell Idag har jag migrerat filserver mha Robocopy och upptäckte då att trots att jag hade gjort en tidigare kopiering blev alla fler klassade som nyare och kopierades igen. Det visar sig att tidsstämplarna i Novells filsystem
Bryta sig in i en SQL Server Härom dagen bytte jag domän på en SQL server och missade att byta lösenord på SA innan jag gjorde det. Detta betydde att jag jag inte kunde logga in. Här kommer lite information om hur jag gjorde för att ta mig in. För a
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 16 - Outlook Softskills I veckans episod så tacklar Micke och Johan ett problem som nog alla våra lyssnare delar - hur skall man hantera och strukturera sin mail för att inte drunkna? Micke och Johan pratar om två olika modeller för hur man kan
Remote Desktop Gateway på Windows Home Server 2011 Jag är en stor fan av Windows Home Server och har precis uppgraderat min HP X300 Data Vault till WHS 2011. Som ni kanske känner till finns det en funktion för fjärrskrivbord inbyggd i WHS. Man för även ett dynamiskt DNS
Hosted Exchange 2010 SP1 Håller just nu på att installera en Hosted Exchange 2010 lösning hos en kund och tänkte att jag skulle samla lite resurser och skriva ner lite instruktioner: Powershell Snippets Skapa en organisation 1: Password = Read-H
iSCSI Target i “Windows Server 8” Jag sitter just nu och fnular lite med Windows 8 developer preview och snubblade då över en cool feature. Microsoft iSCSI target är numera inbyggt i Windows Server. Här kommer en kort genomgång hur man installerar det. 1
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 15 - Intervju med Thomas Melzer, Intel Muh på er, Vi håller ju som bäst på med bygget av vår Geek-server och då passade det ju bra att fånga in Thomas och reda ut begreppen lite kring vad som gäller för hårdvara idag? Micke Nyström är i Australien och föreläs
Hyper-V som DC Jag konstaterade igår att det kanske är bra med en DC i mitt labnät…. sagt och gjort, jag körde DC promo på min Hyper-V maskin (ja, jag vet att det inte är supportat ) När den kom upp gick jag in i Hyper-V Manager och sk
Small Business Server Essentials 2011 - Migrering Här kommer lite information angående migrering av Windows Small Business Server 2008 till Windows Small Business Server Essentials 2011 och Microsoft Office 365 Målet är att migrera en komplett SBS 2008 till SBS Essentia
Flytta Business Contact manager till en ny server Här kommer en liten lista på saker man behöver tänka på när man skall flytta Microsoft Business Contact Manager till en ny SQL Server SQL instansen måste heta MSSMLBIZ SQL instansen måste vara inställd att lyssna på port
SBS och Autodiscovery Sitter med en labbmiljö som kör SBS 2008 som jag skall migrera till Office 365. Det visar sig att Office 365 mailmigrering ställer en del krav på min Exchange. Det krävs t.ex att autodiscovery fungerar och för det krävs
Single Sign on with Remote Desktop Gateway Jag var hos kund idag och skulle installera en intern remote desktop gateway. Kunden ville att användare på det interna nätet skulle kunna ansluta til en intern gateway för att på så vis publicera skyddade resurser. Ett
ActiveSync Idag stötte jag på ett litet knivigt ActiveSync problem… Vi har bytt SBS server hos en kund vilket innebär att de fått en ny Exchange 2010 server . Telefonerna som synkar ansluter till samma adress med samma inloggning o
Disk2VHD och integration Services Härom dagen hos kund stötte vi på ett litet problem. Vi hade kör Disk2VHD på en Windows Server, närmare bestämt en Small Business Server 2003. Vi kopierade in imagen till Hyper-V maskinen och startade den. Eftersom maski
SCVMM och Linux Dagens problem är ett resultat av att man “ligger lite före” En kund till mig vill hosta Linux maskiner på Hyper-V och har därför börjat testa Centos lite. Eftersom Microsoft släppte senaste iteration av Linux Integratio
TMG och IE9 Stötte idag på ett litet kompatibilitetsproblem mellan Internet Explorer 9 och Forefront TMG. Lösningen finns här: http://thelaith.net/2011/04/15/tmg-2010-sp1ie9-error/ /JP
HP Warranty Check Idag fick jag anledning att använda HP Warranty Check. Detta är en sida på HPs Site där man kan kolla om det finns garanti på en HP del. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/weInput?cc=se&lc=sv&dlc=sv
Sommarkollo Jag har idag kört min första Sommarkollo dragning på Microsoft i Akalla och jag tänkte dagen till ära sätta upp en ny blogsite där jag kommer att samla mina tankar om lite allt möljigt. Jag vill börja med att tacka de ta
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 14 - Sommaraktiviteter Hejsan Nu när somaren som bäst satte vi oss i vår studio och spelade in sista avsnittet innan semester. Idag skall det handla om vad du kan göra på din semester om du tröttnat på sol, bad och glass... Våra aktivitetstips
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 13 - Warstories pt3 Hej och Välkomna Idag skall vi än en gång utforska en IT konsults vardag och tankar. Idag faller turen till Johan Arwidmark, the original deployment übergeek. Vi pratar lite om vad han pysslar med, hur man bemöter kunder
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 12 - Hyper-V Nätverk The Nerd Herd är tillbaka med lite mer virtualiseringsinformation. Denna gång fokuserar vi på nätverk. Hur tilldelar jag mina nätverkskort för mina virtualiseringsplatform. Hur många NICar behöver jag? Vad är TCP offload
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 11 - Hyper-V Storage Vi är tillbaka... Den här gången diskuterar vi hur diskar fungerar i Hyper-V och hur man skall tänka när man skall tänka när man designar disklösningar för virtualisering. Hyper-V R2 Virtual Disk Performance Whitepaper D
The Nerd Herd - Avsnitt 8 - Warstories pt2 I dagens avsnitt sätter vi oss ner med Fredrik "DXter" Jonsson, it-proffs profil och PKI guru för att diskutera igenom hur man gör och inte gör om man skall implementera PKI. Vi får även veta hur man kan ha 23 PKI implem
The Nerd Herd - War Stories - Anders Ahl och Patrik Mattsson Välkommen till en ny företelse från the Nerd Herd som vi kallar War Stories. Här kommer vi med jämna och ojämna mellanrum intervjua personer som jobbar i IT branchen. Vi kommer att prata om saker de upplevt i sitt arbete
The Nerd Herd - Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Den här gången behandlar The Nerd Herd lillebror till Small Business Server Standard, nämligen Small Business Server Essentials 2011 eller som Mikael N kallar den, en Homeserver med slips. Vi diskuterar skillnaden mellan
The Nerd Herd - Microsoft System Center Advisor Det andra avsnittet denna säsong handlar om Microsoft System Center Advisor. System Center Advisor är ett molnbaserat övervakningssystem likt Intune men för servrar. Produkten är fortfarande i Release Candidate status oc
The Nerd Herd - Windows Intune Det första officiella avsnittet är postat och med det följer givetvis lite show notes: Avsnittet behandlar Windows Intune. Vad ingår i Intune? - Webbaserat management- Patchhantering- Inventering av mjukvara och hårdvara
The Nerd Herd - Inledning Jaha... då var det dax... Vi startar upp The Nerd Herd igen. Vi börjar lite enkelt med ett inledningsavsnitt för att värma upp. Här diskuterar vi vad kommande avsnitt kommer att innehålla. Ni kan givetvis påverka innehål
Problem starting Microsoft CRM 4.0 on a Terminal Server This error occurred when I tried to start the CRM 4.0 client on a terminal server. The client stopped loading with the error message: "An error occurred loading Microsoft Dynamics CRM functionality. Try restarting Outloo
Using recover deleted item from any folder Use this reg file to enable recover deleted items in any folder. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangeClientOptions] "DumpsterAlwaysOn"=dword:00000001
Delegating AD Admin Rights to regular users I want to let regular user be able to administer users and computers in a specific OU. There is a AD setting which allows any regular domain user to add a maximum of 10 Computers to the domain. This setting can be turned
Set Site Links to Notification-Based Replication Notification based replication will result in immediate replication between sites… remember that this will increase your replication traffic with 20-30%. Start ADSIedit.msc and connect to the configuration container. Go
VHD booting… Rocks Today I installed the Windows 7 Beta to test the VHD boot… It is so cool. This is a screenshot of a computer dual booting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 :-) Here is a description on how to do it. 1. Boot the machin
Microsoft CRM Version Numbers Here are the build number of of the different rollup fixes for Microsoft CRM Version Build Number Released on Link RTM 4.0.7333.3 12/19/2007 Rollup 1 4.0.7333.1113 11/24/2008 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952858 Rollup
JRNL_WRAP_ERROR You get this error in the eventlog: The File Replication Service has detected that the replica set "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" is in JRNL_WRAP_ERROR. Replica set name is : "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)"
Working with CSV and AD To export Contacts from AD to CSV use CSVDE -F CONTACTS.CSV -R "(objectclass=contact)" To import contacts from file: CSVDE –I -F CONTACTS.CSV To import with logging: CSVDE –I -F CONTACTS.CSV –j c: Note: User path for log
Problems installing Flash in TS or Citrix Today I ran into a curious problem. I had installed Flash 9 on three Citrix servers and on the last one it only worked for admins. I googled for a while and ran into this solution: 1. Make sure you have ADMIN privileges
Exchange Server Blog: Room Mailbox Scripts Exchange Server 2007 Today i was looking for some good scripts for handling room mailboxes. I found these: new-Mailbox -alias "Meeting Room" -database "Mailbox Database" -name "Meeting-Room" -resourcetype room –userPrincipalName room-meeting
Enable Search folders in Outlook Web Access I have started using this method for organizing my mail and since it is very reliant on search folders I wanted to be able to access my search folders from Outlook Web Access. To get this working you need to do the follo
Pay it forward email management For all you people who are getting ALOT of email or just want to stay on top. Take a look at this “Getting things done” inspired email management system for Outlook. Links http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/PIFEM-A-New-G
Manually uninstall WSUS 3 Sp1 Today I came across a WSUS problem… After having some problems with the install of WSUS 3.0 SP1 i was not able to uninstall it and hence not reinstall it. I found this article on the WSUS Support team Blog Site. Link: ht
Move IAS configuration to another computer On the source server: netsh aaaa show config > file.txt On the target server netsh exec file.txt Links: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883619
WSUS Cleanup Tips Here are some tips if you have an ever growing wsuscontent directory and you are running out of space: 1. Decline superseded update You can delete superseded updates IF you have approved the superseding updates. If you d
Citrix Metaframe having problems with Windows Server 2000 SP4 Rollup Fix 1 The other day I ran into a problem with an old Windows 2000 Citrix Server which suddenly stopped accepting some connections. The problem turned out to be that they recently updated the server with Rollup Fix 1 (from 2005
Finding out version and edition of a Microsoft SQL Server The other day at a customers I needed to find out the version and edition of an installed SQL server… Here is the solution: Connect to an instance of SQL Server by using the following sqlcmd command: sqlcmd -S ServerInst
Microsoft CRM 4.0 and Automatic Patching This is a short description of how to rollout Rollup Fix 1 for Microsoft CRM using the automatic update feature in Microsoft CRM 4.0. Create a folder for the patches (example: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Dynamics CRMServerc
Problem accessing certsrv site from a Vista computer The problem is that the ActiveX controller does not work in Windows Vista… Here is a solution
EEE Pc Links I have collected some EEE PC Links: Install: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:usbrestore http://wiki.eeeuser.com/restore_1000h http://wiki.eeeuser.com/restoretofactory http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:reinstallfromscratch Alte
Installing Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 I have collected some links that I used when I did the install… Remember to fix the IPv6 problem Links http://www.simple-talk.com/exchange/exchange-articles/deploying-exchange-2007-on-windows-server-2008/ http://www.msex
Changing the SMTP Banner on Exchange 2003 When you set up a new Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server You get the following default SMPT Banner 220 internal.domain.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:00:00 –0500 To chan
Upgrading a CA from Standalone to Enterprise Today I had upgrade a CA from Standalone to Enterprise. Here is a chacklist: Backup Backup the CA using the CA Management Console. Right-click on the server name in the console and under All Tasks select Back up CA. Sele
Setting up Wireless Networking 802.1x To use 802.1x for wireless authentication you need two things. A PKI Infrastructure (although very simple) and Radius Server. CA Server If you do not have an Enterprise CA you need to install one. This i pretty st
Problems adding plug-ins in Microsoft CRM 4.0 To be able to add new plug-ins you need to be Deployment Manager. You do this in CRM 4.0 Deployment Management Console. Links http://blogs.technet.com/crmbipl/archive/2008/01/08/registering-plug-in-not-have-enough-privil
IPv6 Resourses A couple of links containing IPv6 resources: Microsoft IPv6 Site Wikipedia on IPv6 Webcasts http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=919739 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=923006 http://channel9.msdn
Problems with updating Deployment Point Problem: When you right click on a Distirbution Point and select Update you get this error: System.Exception: Unable to mount image C:DOCUME~1ADMINI~1.000LOCALS~1Temp1winpe.wim to C:DOCUME~1ADMINI~1.000LOCALS~1Temp1PE20_
How to create ModelAlias HP computers in MDT Mr Ben Hunter have a great blog when it comes to Microsoft Deployment. Here is a information on ModelAlias. Links http://blogs.technet.com/benhunter/archive/2007/03/28/bdd-2007-tips-creating-model-aliases.aspx http://www
Wireless Networking Here is a link for all of you that used to use NetStumble but switched to Vista and found out it did not work so well. This one is called inSSIDer .
SBS Mythbusting Have you ever talked to people about SBS and they have told you that it is no good because of all the limitations. Here is a page at Microsoft which busts mots of these. Links http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/s
Applications which are supported on Hyper-V Here is a list of the applications which Microsoft support on Hyper-V Source http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957006
Windows Server 2008 TS from XP SP3 A customer of mine found this patch which makes the new TS features work in XP SP2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6E1EC93D-BDBD-4983-92F7-479E088570AD&displaylang=en
Whitelisting in Exchange 2003 I neede a way to create a whitelist in Exchange 2003. Apparently the support for whitelisting is not very good. Here are some options: 1. Global Accept List You can add the IP och a "Safe" mail server. http://www.exchang
Deploying Symantec Endpoint Protection using Group Policy Create Client Install Settings Go to Admin - Install Packages. Create a new Client Install Setting. Set it to Silent Install. If you do not have one create a distribution share or a folder in your existing share for Syma
MailTo Links does not open in Lotus Notes I had this problem today... here is the solution:
Installing WSUS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 Here is a Step-by-Step guide on installing WSUS 3.0 on windows server 2008. Thanks Mr Ahl Links http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/239/wsus-30/
Unable to uninstall Exchange 2003 I get this message when I try to uninstall Exchange 2003 I get this error message: "One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this server" Here is how to find the problematic mailboxes. http://support.microsoft.
PKI Problems Here are some links on troubleshooting PKI Links Decommissioning CAs Troubleshoot PKI
Setting up Group Policy support for WPA2 with Windows Vista Today I played a little with Wireless Network, WPA2 and GPOs. I wanted to set up a GPO which distributes the settings for my Wireless Network which uses WPA2 First of all... Windows XP needs a patch for WPA2. It's here T
Run As other user in Windows Vista Do you miss RunAs in Windows Vista... Sysinternals... sorry Microsoft to the rescue! Link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc300361.aspx
Redirect to /exchange in Exchange 2003 How do I redirect the default web site to /exchange ? 1. Log onto the OWA server 2. Open the IIS Manager 3. Open the properties for the default web site 4. Under the Home Directory Tab, do the following a) Choose redirec
EventID 1054: ... Group Policy processing aborted. When you login to a domain you get the following error: Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network. (The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy p
Enable authentication for Internet Users Open Configuration - Networks Select the network Internal, right-click and select Properties Goto Web Proxy and click Authentication Click Digest and select the correct domain To force user authentication choose "Require
Setting up Automatic Discovery of ISA for Firewall Clients Enable Autodetection in ISA 1. In the console tree of ISA Server Management, click Firewall Policy . 2. In the details pane, select the applicable network (usually Internal ). 3. On the Tasks tab, click Edit Selected Net
Running Microsoft CRM with Exchange 2007 Here is information on running Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mail router on MS Exchange 2007 Links http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/02/08/crm-and-exchange-2007-download.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fami
Exchange 2007 OWA trouble I had a problem at one of my customers today. Suddenly they told me that OWA had stopped working. When I tried it it started loading but it just stopped with the this URL: https:// servername /owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=htt
Microsoft ISA Server Resources Today I found some very good ISA resources on ISAServer.org ISA Firewall Best Practices, Tips and Tricks (Part 1) ISA Firewall Dirty Dozen (FAQ) ISA Server Tools ISA Server Tools (MS) Thomas Shinder Blog Teaching the Bos
Multiple templates for a document library Today a customer asked me if he could create multiple templates in the same document library (in our case Excel spreadsheet). The answer is of course Yes. Here is how you do it. From the Site Actions menu, select Site Se
I want Sharepoint to open links in a new window First, open the schema file for the links list feature. In my case, it was located at: C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEFEATURESLinksListLinksschema.xml In this file there should
Using Remote Assistance to support users Create a shortcut to Offer Remote Assistance On Windows Vista/2008 On the Desktop, Right-Click and select "New" --> "Shortcut". Enter "MSRA.exe /expert" (without qoutes) and hit next. Give the shortcut a name and click F
Mapping printers on Computer Group Membership Here is an example on how to use the group membership for a computer to control Default Printer ; Mapping Printers ; Deleting printers $result=DelTree("HKEY_CURRENT_USERPrintersconnections") ; Adding Printers $result=ADD
How do I reset my Windows Media Player library 1. Close Microsoft Media Player for at least 30 seconds 2. Click Start and then Run 3. Type the following into the textbox: %userprofile%Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftMedia Player 4. Click OK and a folder showin
Event ID 7024 and Event ID 10010 when starting bits You get the following error messages when starting BITS: Event ID 7024 "BITS terminated with service-specific error 2147942405 (0x80070005)" Event ID 10010 The server {4991D34B-80A1-4291-83B6-3328366B9097} did not regist
How do I install a BackupExec Agent without rebooting? When you install the Veritas Backup Exec Agent the normal way the computer reboots (sometimes without asking :-( ) My colleague Peter told me how to do it on version 10d: Copy the folder C:Program FilesVERITASBackup Exec
A critical Windows Media Center process has failed. Please contact your hardware manufacturer and restart the computer I had a problem with my Media Center PC today... Went I went into Recorded TV i got the following error: "A critical Windows Media Center process has failed. Please contact your hardware manufacturer and restart the comp
Unable to create new Software Package When I try to create a software package on my System Center Essentials I get the following error: Create Directory Failed Note: The following information was gathered when the operation was attempted. The information may
E-mail already exists in this organization Today I was setting up a new email address for a user and I got the following error: E-mail already exists in this organization Apparently the address alreaty existed... how do I find it? Start Active Directory Users and
Install Forefront Client without server To test the FCS Client without a server use the following command: clientsetup.exe /NOMOM Source http://forums.microsoft.com/ForeFront/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1143381&SiteID=41
Notes on using Server Performance Advisor I tried setting up Server Performance Advisor today and ran into some problems: - All the reports gave the following results: Invalid Data Set Reports - I got the following error in Event Viewer: Event Type: Warning Even
Using Logparser to create an UBR-file for WCAT If you are using WCAT to stress test your IIS application you can use the logfiles of IIS to create the UBR file that WCAT uses with the help of Logparser: logparser file:.SamplesTemplateFileswcat.sql -tpl:.SamplesTempla
Event ID 12014 - Microsoft Exchange couldn't find a certificate Event ID 12014 may appear in the Application event log of CAS/HUB Transport/Edge server: "Microsoft Exchange couldn't find a certificate that contains the domain name mail.domainname.com in the personal store on the loca
Using NLB (Network Load Balancing) with Sharepoint Today I set up my first NLBd Sharepoint. The problem I had was that when I took down the first installed server the second one did not work. The problem was that the Sharepoint installation did not use the the NLB cluste
How do I create a "Blog This" button in Outlook 2007 Today I created a "Blog This" button in Outlook 2007 Create a macro with this VBA Macro Const FEED_URL = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/id/{00062041-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}/0x8900001F"Const FEED_NAME = "http://s
Listing all installed updates Jesper Johansson published this on his blog wmic qfe list full /format:htable Run this from the command prompt and pipe it to a file... http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/attachment/7320.ashx
How do I customize my dasBlog Theme This is a good description of how to edit your dasBlog Theme: Building my blog Part IV: Creating a theme for dasBlog Beware of the ASP.NET cache :-)
When I Try To Install Microsoft CRM On My Laptop I Get The Following Error There Is Already An Incompatible When I try to install Microsoft CRM on my laptop I get the following error: "There is already an incompatible version installed that needs to be removed before the CRM installer can continue." Here is an article on how t
Exchange System Manager Errors I did some troubleshooting on an Exchange Server. I found these errors and solutions: Error 0x8004010F I had to add my local server name to the host header in IIS I had only my public name to fix the following error. Err
Remote Control Software I have collected a couple of programs for remote control: mRemote Vision App Remote Desktop (requires registration) Terminals
Running Virtual Server on Windows Vista Here is a link on how to install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 on Windows Vista
WSUS Setting Defaults Clients Computer Configuration - Administrative templates - Windows Components - Windows Update Do not display "Install Updates and Shut Down" option in Shut Down Windows dialog box Disabled Do not adjust default option
Getting started guide to Windows PE Here is a very good getting started guide for Windows PE http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/winvistape2.htm
Preview PDF files in Outlook 2007 So you like the preview feature in Outlook 2007 for Work and Excel files... Here is a plugin to handle PDF Links http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/02/27/14001.aspx
Terminal Services Lockdown Checklist Note: This is a work in progress [Computer ConfigurationAdmin TemplatesSystemGroup Policy] Enable the following setting: User Group Policy loopback processing mode [Computer ConfigurationWindows SettingsSecurity Settings
Problem connecting to a network share When you try to connect to a shared folder on a Windows Server you get logon failure no matter what you try. You will also find the following error logs in event viewer: Händelsetyp: Varning Händelsens källa: Kerberos Hä
User gets logon prompt when accessing Microsoft Dynamics CRM folders in Outlook You are prompted multiple times for the user name and for the password when you start Outlook or when you click any of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM folders in Outlook. This happens the first time the user accessec Microsof
Grant User Access to a table Verify that the correct database context Create a new query grant select on TABLE to USER Select the query and hit Alt+X
Comparison of Standard and Enterprise Editions for ISA Server 2006 Here is a comparison chart: http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/prodinfo/standard-enterprise-comparison.mspx
Misc IIS Tools Here are links to some IIS tools IIS 6.0 Reource Kit IIS 6.0 Migration Tool Version 1.0 Apache to IIS 6.0 Migration Tool Version 1.0 CustomAuth Version 1.0 IISCertDeploy.vbs Version 1.0 IIS Host Helper Service Version 1.
Enabling Adobe Acrobat in Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 1. Download the Adobe PDF iFilter 6.0 and install it 2. Download and run the zip mentioned here Links http://geekswithblogs.net/sspotts/archive/2006/11/03/96045.aspx http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ft
Reports not working in Microsoft CRM When you try to open the Reports folder in Microsoft CRM you get the error: Error An error has occurred. For more information, contact your system administrator. This happens sometimes if you have separated CRM, SQL and
Moving IIS configuration to a new server On the old server: 1. Go to IIS manager and right click on the node you want to move 2. Click "Save Configuration to Disc" On the new server: 1. In IIS Manager rightclick on for instance "Web Sites" 2. Click on "New Webs
ISA and OWA problem(s) I had a customer who was having a problem with a ISA published Exchange 2003 OWA. Phe problem had two symptoms: 1. When they clicked on an URL in a mail in OWA they where redirected to a login page. 2. When the create a
The Service Microsoft Firewall Does Not Start On ISA 2006 Computer You Get The Following Error Cannot Load An A The service Microsoft Firewall does not start on ISA 2006 computer. You get the following error: Cannot load an application filter Web Proxy Filter ({4CB7513E-220E-4C20-815A-B67BAA295FF4}). FilterInit failed with code 0x
Resources for troubleshooting email in Microsoft CRM Links http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2006/07/12/663416.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906471/en-us http://www.crmaccelerators.net/ (registration required) http://blogs.msdn.com/benlec/
Microsoft CRM does not automatically send email created by Quick Campaign When you distribute e-mail activities for a campaign in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the e-mail activities are not automatically sent to the recipients. Instead, you have to open each e-mail activity. Then, you have to send e
"Cloning" a machine in VMware ESX Starter edition This is a workaround on cloning a computer in VMware ESX Starter Edition 1. Log into VMWare ESX using Putty 2. Copy the entire folder of the "template" to a folder with the new name using cp -r /original/dir /copied/dir
Creating sysprep.inf Sample File [Unattended] OemSkipEula=Yes KeepPageFile= [UserData] ComputerName = * FullName = "Full Name" OrgName = "Company" ProductKey = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" [GuiUnattended] OEMSkipRegional = 1 OEMSkipWelcom
Uninstall Trend Antivirus without the uninstall password Here is a description on how to uninstall the Trend Micro Officescan Client if you have lost the uninstall password. To remove / reset the uninstall password for Trend Micro OfficeScan - Edit Ofcscan.ini file. (Do a sear
Enable Remote Desktop Remotely Enable Remote Desktop wmic /node:"computername.domain.local" /USER:"DOMAINuser" RDTOGGLE WHERE ServerName="computername" CALL SetAllowTSConnections 1 Disable Remote Desktop wmic /node:"computername.domain.local" /USER:"D
Problems login in to Microsoft CRM When you start Microsoft CRM you get the following error: An error occurred loading Microsoft CRM functionality Try restarting Microsoft Outlook Contact your system administrator if errors persist CRM Menu is present but
Changing Cisco VPN Client .pcf files on client computers I have a customer that uses Cisco VPN Client. They are going to change ISP which means that they are going to change IP adresses. The VPN profiles today are set up using the IP so I found a VB script to edit the pcf file
Using SyncToy on Windows Vista 64-bit To run SyncToy 1.4 on 64-bit Vista you need to replace custsat.dll in the SyncToy install folder. Source http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/220001112831
Setting up IMF ion Exchange 2007 Here is a short article on setting up IMF on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Source http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/17/431555.aspx
Offline Files tab missing I had a problem today... at a customers laptop the Offline Files tab was missing... The solution vas a registry setting: Next, navigate to these Registry keys: ===== HKEY_Local_MachineSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWin dowsNet
GrundläggandeMaintenance Tasks på SQL Server för icke-DB-Admins Basic install - Database Components - Integration Service - Management tools Maintenance Plans Maintenance plan (Kräver Integration Services) Skapa Backupjobb (Scheduleras dagligen innan så att den är klar innan bandback
Problems with Managemnet Studio on x64 SQL 2005 server I had a problem today with editing maintenance plans in Management Studio 2005 on a server with Windows Server 2003 x64. The error I get is: Cannot show the editor for this task. Additional information: Exception from HR
Redirecting OWA HTML Redirection to https: /exchange"> This page is attempting to redirect you to /
Wonderful Error running the Microsoft CRM Registration Wizard When running the Microsoft CRM Registration Wizard you might bump into the following error: "The wizard requires an Internet connection to complete registration. Activate your Internet connection if it is disabled. If yo
Deploy Citrix Client using GPO Here is a link on how to package a Citrix Client for deployment using AD and GPO Source http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=539
Linux Basics - Changing IP and default Gateway Bringing up an Ethernet interface with ifconfig [root@morgan]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.99.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig and route output before the change [root@morgan]# ifconfig eth0 eth0Link encap:EthernetHWaddr 00:8
"Incorrect function" error message when you access the CD-ROM drive, the DVD-ROM drive, or the CD-RW drive Solution: Right-Click on the drive w/ the problem Properties Recording Tab and then check the "Enable CD Recording On This Drive" box. Links: http://www.duxcw.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=6227 htt
Symantec Antivirus - Password Recovery Method 1: Locate the following Registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareIntelLANDeskVirusProtect6CurrentVersion] If there is a value for the ConsolePassword parameter, then clear the value and restart the Symantec servic
Microsoft Exchange 2007 - OAB Problem I have set up an Exchange 2007 server for a customer and I bumped into a problem when syncing Outlook 2003. I receive an 0x8004010F error message when you try to synchronize the offline address list. Solution: Goto Excha
PreCache Tool for Microsoft CRM Here is a small util for Microsoft CRM which refreshes the ASP pages in the cache on IIS. This is good if you are developing and want to see your latest changes quickley. Links http://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/archive/20
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - Public Folders Some powershell stuff on managing Public Folders in Exchange 2007 Create Public Folder New-PublicFolder -name "Name" Remove a Public Folder Remove-PublicFolder -Identity "My Public Folder" Get information on Public Folde
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - Back Pressure From Microosoft Technet: --------------------- Start Quote ---------------------------------------- Back pressure is a system resource monitoring feature of the Microsoft Exchange Transport service that exists on compute
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - Connectors I recently installed my first Exchange 2007 Server and I had problems with recieving mail and found it to be related to the recieve connector. Exchange 2007 have two kinds of connector. Send connector and recieve connect
Utility for unlocking disabled attachments in Outlook Here are some links to utils that will unblock blocked attachents in Outlook http://www.visiontech.ltd.uk/software/ol2k2sec.html http://www.attachmentsecurity.com/officemarket.htm
Watch the case I ran into a problem today rearding ASA configuration There are 2 builtin VPN groups in the ASA: DefaultRAGroup and DefautlL2LGroup. You can from the cli delete these but the will not disapear - they will only become inv
PIX-to-ASA Dynamic-to-Static VPN - Part 2 This is a follow-up on the about setting up PIX-to-ASA Dynamic-to-Static VPN and this time the ASA is static and the Pix is dynamic. Here is the config: ASA Config interface Ethernet0/0 nameif outside security-level 0 ip
Unable to open shim database version registry key - v2.0.50727.00000. Q: I get the following error om my terminal servers: Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 2007-06-19 Time: 07:08:58 User: N/A Computer: COMPUTER Description: The description
Scripting Exchange 2007 As you know Exchange 2007 can be totally administered by using Powerscript. Here I have tried to collect some scripts for Exchange 2007 administration: Empty a mailbox database List mailbox servers in an organisation get
Links about sizing Sharepoint Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land Tips on Site Collection Sizing SharePoint Deployment Capacity & Performance Planning 2003 & 2007 What you need to know... How large for a single SharePoint content database?
Want to try Microsoft CRM? There is a VHD that you can download here .
SSL/TLS protected RDP From Windows Server 2003 SP1 it is possible to protect the RDP connection using SSL/TLS. This will give you a HUGE boost in security. Here is a simple way to set it up using a self signed certificate. 1. Create a self si
SCSI Connectors... Links http://www.datastor.com.au/support.htm http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/scsi_connecters.html http://www.cablestogo.com/resources/scsi.asp
Windows Update Errors Here are some links to Windows/Microsoft Update Errors that I have Enountered 0x80072EE2 error
Image Gallery in Windows Home Server Here is a short description for creating a simple image gallery using Windows Home Server, Whiist and Album Photo Handler. Links Whiist - Website Management Add-In for Windows Home Server Bertrand Le Roy’s Album Photo Ha
Windows Home Server I have found a new cool toy - Windows Home Server. It is built on Windows Server 2003 and a close relative to Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition. I have been playing around with it for a while now and it is soooo
Sharepoint Tips and Tricks Installing Language Pack Download the Language Pack from here Install the Language Pack Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard Note: All sites and site collections created before install the in
Citrix Client Problems Apparently there is a change in the hotkey setup in Citrix Client v10 which sets Shift-F12 to mean Full Screen. Unfortunatley this conflicts with the AS/400 setup at one of my customers where Shift-F12 means F24... I am
SQL Server Tips and Tricks for non-DBAs I have collected some Good-To-Know-Things here and will add more as time goes by... Cleaning up backups in SQL 2005 In SQL pre 2005 you could set up a backup job to delete backupfiles older than X number of days (see pic
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Installation Issues - Domain not in Windows 2000 native mode or Higher Solution: Raised Domain functional Level - Domain Controller Pre Windows 2003 Solution: Specified DC on install setup /mode:install /domaincontroller:DC2k3.company.com /
Problems with Citrix over VPN I had some problems with a customers brand new Citrix Server. I can use it locally but I run into problems over VPN. After some searching the net I found this article on Citrix Knowledgebase. It gave a hint on somethin c
Problems with ASA 5505 on a dynamic IP broadband connection... sometimes I just installed a ASA5505 at one of my customers remote office which does not have a static IP address. The problem was that the ASA dis not get a dynamic IP address from the ISP. This is apparently a known problem (at
Problem with Reporting Services in Swedish Microsoft CRM I have just installed a Swedish Microsoft CRM Server for a customer and ran into a little problem... When we are trying to use the reports we get the following error: An unexpected error occurred in Report Processing. (r
Wallpaper in Terminal Session A customer of mine told me that since we upgaded his Citrix Server to Windows Server 2003 his users was not able set a wallpaper anymore. I know... wallpapers slow down performance in terminal sessions :-) Apparently Win
Script for setting rights on home folders Here is a little script I did for a customer to set permissions on user home dirs. I goes through all of the subfolders and changes all permissions and ownerships. @echo off for /d %%v in (*) do call :CHANGE %%v :CHANGE
Using IP of TS Client in session A customer of mine needed to be able to map a printer on a client computer tunning TS client to an LPT port in the TS Session... After a little googling I found a cool little utility at DABCC called ENVTSCIP from Ctrl-Al
Reports in Microsoft CRM not working I just set up a Microsoft CRM server for a customer. After one of our developers had set up the Biztalk connection (and changed some settings in IIS to work with his web service :-( ) the reports in MS CRM did not work a
PIX-to-ASA Dynamic-to-Static VPN - Part 1 I had to set up a Pix to Pix VPN tunnel where one of the Pixes had a dynamic IP Adress. Here is the sample configs: Static Side (Pix): access-list inside_outbound_nat0_acl permit ip 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.0
Java for Windows Vista Here is the download link for the JRE that works in Windows Vista
Factory Reset ASA 5505 The ASA 5505 contains some factory configuration that will be lost if you use the usual write erase. If you instead use configure factory-default it will restore this config.
Troublesome Outlook Add-ins Today i had problems with an old Antivirus add-in in outlook... the AV program had been uninstalled but outlook still tried to start the add-in. Here are some places to look for and remove the add-in: - Tools/Options/Oth
Installation av Microsoft CRM Server 3.0 Installation av Microsoft CRM Server 3.0 (Detta är en editerad version av postningen den 22/5 2006) Förutsättning: Microsoft CRM installeras i detta fall på samma server som Microsoft SQL. Allt installeras på en Windows
Onebridge problem Checklist för att få CDO kopplingen i Onebridge att fungera: - Installera Exchange System Management Tools från Exchange-skivan - Installera KB823343 (finns på microsoft.com)
Svchost is taking 100% CPU during Automatic Update Detection Cycle There is a known bug on some computers running Windows XP SP2 with Ofice 2003 installed. When Automatic update is running an update cycle the computer becomes unresponsive. The is a fix here but this fix apparently does
Problems with Custom ICA Connections When migrating a Citrix Server to a new domain I ran into a problem. After the migration I tried to connect to the server with a custom ICA connection and got the following error message: "The desktop you are trying to o
Troubleshooting Client Drive Mappings in Citrix Links: Troubleshooting Various Client Drive Mapping Issues ICA Client Drive File and Folders are Not Refreshed or Updated Unless F5 is Used
Cursor Not Blinking on Windows Server 2003 TS and Citrix I ran into a, to me, insignificant problem that I hadn´t even reflected over before... Apparently there is a design change in Windows Server 2003 which means that the blinking cursor is disabled when you run in the TS in
Exchange - IMF - Intelligent Message Filter I found this good simple step by step guide to configuring IMF on Microsoft Exchange 2003 Link to Exchange - IMF - Intelligent Message Filter | Amset.info
Microsoft CRM having problems going online after being offline. If the client has the error trying to go ONLINE, change a registry key: - Open Registry, go to HKLM | Software | Microsoft | MSCRM - Look for the RCOffline key - Edit and type a value of 0 - Close registry - Try to go of
The name of the computer hosting a TS session Is it possible to find out the name of the computer hosting my TS session from a script? Yepp... The variable name is CLIENTNAME
Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook Outlook 2003 has an automatic completion for any email address that you try to type into the To or CC fields. This feature does not pull from the contacts or address
Simple Capture Instructions Start Capture capture access-list interface Stop Capture no capture View Capture show capture
Performing Password Recovery for the ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance Performing Password Recovery for the ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance To recover from the loss of passwords, perform the following steps: Step 1 Connect to the security appliance console port according to the
Question I Installed IIS On A Computer That Alreace Had NET Framework 20 And I Cant Find ASPNET 20 In IIS Managers Question: I installed IIS on a computer that alreace had .NET Framework 2.0 and I can't find ASP.NET 2.0 in IIS managers From the command line, browse to: C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkvx.x.xxxxx (i386) C:WindowsMicroso
How do I add or change memory on a Compaq Evo N610c Question: How do I add or change memory on a Compaq Evo N610c? Answer: Stick your fingernail (or a screwdriver) under the left front panel, right below the Windows key. Pull up. Source
Problem adding Windows XP Computer to a domain Question: I am unable to add a Windows XP SP2 computer to a Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain. I get an Access Denied Error message. Answer: After some research i stumble on this: The problem seems to relate to the fact that
Upgrading Software on Cisco Pix How do I upgrade software on my Cisco Pix Use the copy tftp flash Command to Upgrade the PIX Complete these steps in order to upgrade the PIX with the use of the copy tftp flash command. Copy the PIX Firewall binary imag
Enable Outside interface when Shutdown When you look in sh int you see interface ethernet0 "outside" is administratively down, line protocol is up Use interface ethernet0 auto to correct this
Creating home directories Here is a short script for adding home directories for a user. You can use it in two different ways: 1. Interactive homedir.bat username 2. Batch homedir.bat -file userfile.txt Format for import file (userfile.txt): user
Misc Windows Settings Copy files to the computer at login copy " \serverinstallvpnlogonLoginVPN .*" "C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart-meny" Starting application in new window (in this case installing trend antivirus) shell "%COMSPEC% /c
Networking Adding Routes in Login Script RUN "Route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1" Find out which subnet the user is on: if Left(@ipaddress0,11) = " 10. 0. 0" ;DONT REMOVE SPACES!!!!!! $Country="Subnet 1" Endif if Lef
Application Settings in Login Scripts Lotus Notes Basic Lotus Notes Settings IF INGROUP("Citrix Domino Users") AT (16,21) "Skapar Notes katalog för Citrix" IF EXIST (H:Lotus) ELSE md H:Lotus md H:LotusNotesdata copy "G:TOOLSSDKSCXNotesdata*.*" "H:LotusNotesd
Basic Loginscript ;**** Basic Login Script **** ;**** By: Johan Persson **** ; Setting Variables $Organisation="Organisation" ; Display some info CLS Color b+/n Box (0,0,24,79,GRID) ; 'background grid' Color g+/n Box (6,18,18,62,FULL) Col
Bitlocker Myths... Busted Here is a very nice article on some of the misconseptions of bitlocker in Windows Vista.
Removing multiple shares If you have a folder containing multiple subfolders which are shared and you want to unshare them. Go to the folder and use this: for /d %v in (*) do net share "%v" / delete
MTU problems resulting in VPN trouble... I have spent the day trying to troubleshoot a problem with a customers VPN connection. Here is a little ino on what i found: Background: The customer is using Microsoft PPTP VPN client to connect to a Cisco Pix 515. All
How do I install Adobe Flash Player on my Citrix Server? Go to a command prompt and type change user /install Then go to the install site for flash player and install. When finished go back to a command prompt and type change user /execute This will enable flash player for all
Microsoft Visio Resources I ran across a couple of Microsoft Visio Links today... I especially like Rate-My-Network-Diagram :-) Rate My Network Diagram - Good for ideas. VisioCafe - Misc Resources Visio MVP Site
Office 2007 Screencasts Here is a little collection Screencasts about Office 2007 Windows Sharepoint Services 2007 - Wikis and Blogs
Windows Vista Screencasts I have collected some screencast links about Vista: Windows Vista Complete PC Backup and Recovery screencast by Keith Combs Windows Vista Performance and Reliability Tools screencast by Keith Combs Windows Vista Aero Gla
Cleaning out Active Directory I had a server crashing on at a customers... it happened to be a DC so now I need to clean it out of the AD. Here is a short description on how to do it.
Misc Troubleshooting Here are some nice troubleshooting tips: Tear down IPSEC tunnel: clear ipsec sa clear crypto ipsec sa — This command resets the IPsec SAs after failed attempts to negotiate a VPN tunnel. clear crypto isakmp sa — This com
Use Ip in a batch script IPCONFIG |FIND "IP" > %temp%TEMPIP.txt FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:" %%a in (%temp%TEMPIP.txt) do set IP=%%a del %temp%TEMPIP.txt set IP=%IP:~1% echo %IP% >%temp%ip.txt echo The current IP address is "%IP%"
Using PuTTY for multiple users If you want multiple users to use PuTTY with the same settings you can use your login script to import settings On windows, PuTTY settings are stored in the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimonTatham Pu
Testing Microsoft Windows Live Writer I am just downloading and testing Microsoft Windows Live Writer with Dasblog since i found this on the Dasblog site. It is a description on how to configure Live Writer for Dasblog.
How to perform a silent installation of the Backup Exec Desktop and Laptop Option (DLO) agent For a silent DLO installation on a Backup Exec media server, modify the following file: c:Program FilesVERITASBackup ExecNTAgentsDLOsetup.ini Note: The path will vary if Backup Exec is not installed to the default locati
Available Macros in Backup Exec DLO Folder Macros for use with Backup Selections Backup Selection Macro Folders backed up %LOCALFIXEDDRIVES% All local fixed drives * %MACHINENAME% Represents the desktop users machine name %CURRENTUSERNAME% All files and fo
Move users to a new Media Server 1. Click Start | Run and open Regedit32.exe 2. If the setting has been modified previously**, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREVERITASDLOClientDefaultMediaServer 3. If the setting has not been modified previously, brow
IIS6 Hardening I found this guide for hardening IIS 6.
Troubleshooting GPO Q: How do I turn on loggin on GPO application? A: Use Registry Editor to add the following registry value (or modify it, if the value already exists): Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlo
Remote Web Workplace Run-Through Here is som information on the workings of RWW
MHT Viewer for PocketPC I do some Geocaching and I think it is nice to have the webpages with me in my Qtek S100. Before I had to save the page as multiple file but since IE 7 you can use the one-file-format called .MHT Here is a viewer for PPC
Visata using too much CPU Here is an article och how to troubleshoot usage of too much CPU in Vista
Windows Vista Per Build Software Compatibility List Here are lists of compatible software: Build 5384 Build 5472
Using LDAP for saved queries in AD A friend asked me about setting up a query for returning all the users in one group. I first tried to set it up by using the wizard which I could noit get to work and then I found the option called "Custon Search" which
Den eländiga Programmappen Här kommer ett litet tips på ett problem jag bara sett på svenska installationer av Windows På vissa maskiner kan man råka ut för att c:probram startas varje gång man loggar in. Jag hittade denna länk med lösningen på pr
Problems with Windows Update under Windows Vista I am trying to run Vista on my mail computer and ran into a problem with updating Vista with Windows Update. Apparently there is a problem with running Windows Update after you have applied a Group Policy setting WSUS se
Mounting ISOs in Windows Vista I am trying to run Windows Vista in production... at least during my vacation. I am trying to set it up with all the software i usually have. One of the problems I bumped into was mounting ISOs. Deamon tools did not work
Trobleshooting Microsoft Server Active Sync I have been working with this now a while so i thought that I should sort through the material I found and document it. First of all, if you do not want to trash your PocketPC device you will need an PocketPC Emulator: M
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0X80004005 Sychronization Errors in Outlook Q: I am getting synchronization errors in Outlook that seems to have to do with the Offline Adress Book 7:59:00 Microsoft Exchange offline address book 7:59:00 0X80004005 A: You need to associate every Mailbox Store with
The Alias Command You can use the alias command for two purposes 1) You need to Destination NAT of one destination address to another In dnat, the PIX changes the destination IP of an application call from one IP address to another IP add
Trend Information http://www.trendmicro.com/download/
Cisco Pix - Standard Site-To-Site VPN Setup sysopt connection permit-ipsec access-list CRYPTO-TO-SOLNA permit ip 192.168.200.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 access-list NAT-0 permit ip 192.168.200.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 nat (inside
Unloading UserProfileHive Sometimes some software is blocking the UserProfileHive from being unloaded when you log off. This problem is aspecially common on terminal servers but can also be a problem on workstations. Microsoft has released UPHCle
Netstat Alternative... A Collegue of mine called me today about a problem. He was trying to find out which process was using port 443 on his server. Easy I said... netstat -o will return the Pid The only problem: He was using windows 2000 and
Microsoft CRM 3.0 - Installationsnoteringar Installation av Microsoft CRM Server 3.0 - Skapa kontor CRM Admin och CRM Mail CRM Admin - Domainadmin under installation CRM Mail - Vanligt konto med mailbox - Skapa DNS Pekare CRM till servern - Lägg till Message Quein
Force Time Sync Q: How do I force my server to sync from an external timesource? A: W32TM /resync /nowait
Do i need to extend the Schema on my Windows Server 2003 Domain when I upgrade to R2? Q: Do i need to extend the Schema on my Windows Server 2003 Domain when I upgrade to R2? A: Yes you do... in these cases: Distributed File System (DFS) Replication Service Print Management Console Identity Management for
IBM Stuff I am always having problems finding things like ServerGuide etc on IBMs. Here is a site where you can find stuff.
Getting RPC over HTTPS to work... Here is some information on getting RPC over HTTPS to work that I used. Configuring the Server Configure RPC over HTTPS - Exchange Server from The Lazy Admin More on RPC Over HTTPs from The Lazy Admin (troubleshooting) H
RFCs I am like most people not very good at reading up on all the RFCs that I should... but there are som I really like. These are pretty cool... This one is my favourite... especially the explenation of packetloss :-)
Loginscript Bits & Pieces This a collection loginscript pieces that i have found useful... more will come Mapping Drives Use "*" /delete Mapping Drives for Groups If InGroup ("Domain Admins") Use i: \servershare EndIf If InGroup ("Group") Use r:
Uninstalling software from the command-line Sometimes you have the need for removing software from the command-line... for instance from a batch file or locin script. The easiest way is using msiexec.exe. Example (removing McAfee Virusscan 7.1): msiexec.exe /x C:P
Missplaced Prodoct Keys ProduKey is a little util will help you find your misplaced product keys. If you have MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server or SQL Server installed on your computer it will find the procuct keys for them. Link
Comparing SIDs Q: How can I compare the SID in the SouceDomain and the SIDHistory in the target domain to see if the migration medn well? A: There are a couple of methods: 1) Use ldp.exe Start ldp.exe Choose Connection/Connect... (Type
How do I find the SID of a user? There are a couple of methods: 1) Use this tool called user2sid.exe, there is also a tool for doing the oposite 2) Use ldp.exe Start ldp.exe Choose Connection/Connect... (Type server or leave blank to connect to localhos
File Acces Auditing Here is information on how to enable auditing in files and shares 1. Go to Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, Domain Controller Security Policy. 2. Now you are in the Default Domain Controller Security Setting. 3. Ex
SID History Filtering Q: What is SID History Filtering? A: SID History Filtering is a feature which makes it possible to filter out the SID History attribute for users autheticating over an interforest trust. Q: Which OSes has this feature? A
Windows Vista - First Experience - Build 5308 Cool Things with Vista - Nicer and better install GUI - Can load drivers during installation from USB!!
Network Games I have saved some links to som fun online games to pass the time with: WarBears Yeti Sports - Icicle Climb Yeti Sports - Penguin Swing Blueprint
FTP User Isolation Tutorial An article describing how to set up the user isolation feature of IIS6. I also found this on Microsoft Technet : Isolate Users Mode The Isolate users mode determines a unique home directory for each user derived from the
Changing your Windows Password from OWA Here is an article describing how to set up the password-changing feature of OWA on Exchange 2003.
ASP.NET Error 2 Q: I am getting this error from my web application Server cannot access application directory 'C:InetpubWwwroot Virtual Directory Name '. The directory does not exist or is not accessible because of security settings. A:
Scripting Cisco VPN connection The other day I had a computer that needed to automatically connect a VPN tunner on startup. Apparenty the Cisco VPN Client 4.6 and later has a Command-Line Interface so this can be done using this line in a batch-file.
Q I Am Getting An Error When I Am Trying Out Ny New ASPNET Application It Looks Like This FO Q: I am getting an error when I am trying out ny new ASP.NET application, it looks like this: Access to the path "C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv1.1.4322Temporary ASP.NET Filesdasblog99184a323905a458" is denied. A: This
Can I shrink a VMWare Auto Expanding Disk KevinG wrote this on the VMWare Knowledgebase -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Run the following command line option with the VM powered off. vmware-vdiskmanage
Sending email from a script I found this article about senting an email from a script. Download Mailsend here Here is another software
ADMT Usage Notes Here is a short list for using ADMT 3.0 1) Install ADMT Installing Password Export Server Service 2) Create ADMT Password Migration Key with admt key /option:create /sourcedomain:DOMAIN /keyfile:c:key /keypassword:Passwo
Password Recovery on Cisco Pix Here is an article on how to perform password recovery in a Cisto Pix.
Migration Tools Tested some Migration Tools: Active Directory Migration Tool 3.0 File Server Migration Toolkit User State Migration Tool
D-Link DSM-320 Media Lounge Jag har ett tag längtat efter ett Windows XP Media Center Edition men har varken ansett mig ha råd eller hittat ett komlett MCE som jag riktigt gillar. Som en sniklösning har jag så länge köpt en Dlink DSM-320 (efter lit
Trust between NT4 and Win2k/2k3 not working Q: I cannot get the trust to work with my old NT4 Domain even if I set up LMHOSTS file A: This is how the LM Hostfile 10.0.0.17 PDC #PRE #DOM:DOMAIN 10.0.0.17 "DOMAIN x1c" #PRE 10.0.0.17 "DOMAIN x1b" #PRE !! It is very i
Multiple Time Servers Q: How do I setup multiple timeserver on a Windows Server? A: NET TIME /SETSNTP:"tick.ucla.edu bigben.cac.washington.edu"
Manually Uninstalling Trend Antivirus If you loose the password for your Trend Installation you will need to uninstallit manually since the uninstall program also requires the password. Below are some KSs on this subject: Manually uninstalling the OfficeScan
Internet Access from VPN My users need to be able to surf while using VPN (I know it is not best practice but I REALLY need it)... You can solve this with split tunnels on Pix Version 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 according this article . In version 7 there
Upgrade the Activation Key Upgrade the Activation Key There are a couple of reasons that you may need to upgrade the activation key on your PIX. Your PIX does not currently have VPN-DES or VPN-3DES encryption enabled. Note: VPN-DES encryption must
To WINS or not to WINS... A number of times i have had the discussion about wether to use WINS or not in a Windows 2000/2003 enviroment. I just found it written down by Eileen Brown . She is also referring to a KB Article at MS for this. The conc
Registering Stuff on the Cisco Website Since Ciscos website is to say the least a little messy... I have written a cheat sheet for this. Register Smartnet Contract Log in with your CCO id Goto Technical Support & Documentation In the Technical Support Column
Backing up Group Policies Q: How do I backup my Group Policy Objects A: Start GPMS, navigate to Group Policy Management / Forest: YourDomain.com / Domains / YourDomain.com Right click Group Policy Objects and Select Backup All... To restore the G
Setting Up ActiveSync over Bluetooth Here is a walkthrough about setting up ActiveSync over Bluetooth. I needed this for my S100. Link Another Link
Mics Exchange Utilities I found a blog with misc Exchange Resources. On the same blog you can also fing information about Utilities from Microsoft
ICA Client connections via Secure Gateway & SSL Relay fail due to expired VeriSign Global Server Intermediate Root CA The VeriSign Global Server Intermediate Root Certificate expires on January 7, 2004. If your Secure Gateway or SSL Relay server is using a VeriSign Global Server ID certificate, you may need to update the intermediate ce
VFD - Utility for mounting Virtual Floppy Disks in XP This utility will help you edit Virtual Floppy Disks on your XP machine which you later can use in for instance VMWare. Link vfd21-050404.zip (140.53 KB)
I am unable to change Authentication Method for OWA on Frontend Server There are typically two reasons that the options on the Authentication Methods become grayed out and non-editable. The first is the Exchange server has been designated as a front-end server, and the second is Forms Based
Removing Terminal Server licenses from an RDP client 32 bit RDP clients store their license under the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftMSLicensing. Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your o
Migrate Content and Approvals from SUS to WSUS Here is a short description on how to migrate Content and Approvals from SYS to WSUS. First di the following: 1. Install the new WSUS server. 2. Configure it (Proxy, Update types and so on 3. Synchronize the WSUS server
Things you need to do when rerunning the Internet and Mail Wizard in SBS This is a list of thing I need to repair after rerunning the Internet and Mail Wizard in SBS: 1. Add All Users to outgoing internet rule in ISA (new items will be added to this list when i find them)
Getting Outlook Mobile Access to work on my Small Business Server I wanted to be able to read my private mail (that resides in my SBS at home) from my Qtek S100. The problem is that I use Active sync to sync my Work Calendar so the only option left is setting up Outlook Mobile Access.
My SBS OWA login is skrewed ut after SP install... Q: I just upgraded to MS Exchange 2003 SP2 on my Windows 2003 SBS server and now I need to login with DOMAINusername instead of just username... Why? and how do I change it back? A: The reason for this is that on a "real
Here is a short description on how to get "Send As..." wórking in Exchange More Information will be added... Links: "Send as" and "Send on behalf" permissions in Exchange 2000 Server and in Exchange Server 2003
Problem with programs not uninstalling I was at a customer the other day trying to uninstall a broken Veritas BackupExec installation. I then stumbeled over a utility called Windows Installer CleanUp Utility . it can help you get rid of those stuborn installa
Creating an alias address forwarding to an external adress This is a bit messy but i can be done like this: 1 Create user account with appropriate email address and set default password. 2 Create a contact with forwarding email address as "SMTP address " 3 Go to User account, Pr
Bulk Modify objects in AD I stumbled on a utility which can bulk modify objects in AD. Big deal you say... I can do that in ADUC. This utility can change the attributes that cannot be changed from ADUC. Links: ADModify.NET home on GotDotNet
Condensed Version of Implementing PKI on Win2003 Setting up a Stand-Alone Root CA 1. Install and patch a Windows Server 2003 and put it in a Workgroup 2. Prepare a CAPolicy.inf file and put it in %SystemRoot% 3. Install Certificate Services from the Install CD accordin
Information about running as non admin... Here is some information about running as non local admin Tools RunAsAdmin Explorer Shim PrivBar Links Aaron Margosis' WebLog nonadmin Blog
System Summary... Gone? One of my collegues told me he used System Summary under Computer Management to find out memory, CPU etc on computers he was working on. He had noticed that in Windows Server 2003 it was gone... If you are like him and y
Moving a DHCP server from one server to another Here are som nice info on moving DHCP from a Server to another Sources: How to move a DHCP database from one server to another in Windows NT 4.0 and in Windows 2000 How to move a DHCP database from a computer that is run
How do I create a driver diskette for an IBM server Creating diskettes on Windows Complete the following steps to create a diskette: 1. Insert the IBM ServeRAID Support CD into the CD-ROM drive. 2. Insert a blank diskette into the diskette drive. 3. Open a DOS window. 4.
Delete printer drivers If the Print Spooler service is operational: Open the Printers ( Printers and Faxes on Windows XP) folder delete all of the printers click File , Server Properties select the Drivers tab for each entry: select the entry
Find out which SP you have on your SQL Server From query analyzer run select serverproperty('productlevel') Thanks Henk
Adding Shortcut from script This utility is used for adding shortcuts from a script. Source xxmklink.zip (18.84 KB)
Bulk setting Ownership and Permissions on userfolders @echo off cacls %1 /T /P "DOMAIN%1" :F "DOMAINDomain Admins" :F < y chown -r -v -d DOMAIN %1 [Userfolder Path]%1 * chown.zip (34.23 KB)
Unable to edit Offline Folder settings in Outlook 2000 Q: I can't set or change settings for offline folders in Outlook 2000 on my computer A: Make sure that you do not have Terminal Services of ANY kind installed on your computer. TS is not supported with Outlook 2000 which
How do I force AD replication Q. I would like to force AD replication A: The easiest way to do this is: repadmin /syncall /force To force ds1 to pull changes from all its replication partners, you'd type repadmin /sy
Environment Variables in Windows Variable Type Description %ALLUSERSPROFILE% Local Returns the location of the All Users Profile. %APPDATA% Local Returns the location where applications store data by default. %CD% Local Returns the current directory str
Printers That Use Ports That Do Not Begin With COM, LPT, or USB Are Not Redirected in a Remote Desktop or Terminal Services Session If you try to connect to a terminal server and have setup local Printer Redirection this might not work on some USB Printers will not be redirected. This is due to a filter on redirection that only redirects ports beginn
Policy for offering remote assistance In Computer Configuration/Administrative Template/System/Remote Assistance enable Offer Remote Assistance and in the helpers field add users or group that will be allowed to offer assistance. The users and groups will no
Format versus Quick Format Q: What is the difference between Format and Quick Format when installing a Windows OS A: The difference between the regular format versus the quick format is whether or not the volume is scanned for bad sectors using th
Installing Applications on locked down server Q: I am tryning to installa an application on a locked down server and I am getting the following error "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation". I have probably locked down something I sh
Internet Proxy Configuration Script not working When setting up Auto Proxy Script in a locked down enviroment the script does not get downloaded. The reasen is "Disable Changing Proxy Settings" is enabled
DS_E_INVALID_ATTRIBUTE_SYNTAX when trying to edit Distribution Lists Q: I get an error DS_E_INVALID_ATTRIBUTE_SYNTAX when I try to edit a Distribution List in Exchange 5.5 (don't know if this applies to 2000 och 2003) A: Try changing the DL Expansion Server in Exchnage System Administrato
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ADC will not replicate objects to AD Problem: You have set up the ADC Connector and migrated your users and everything looks good. Then for some reason you need to delete and remigrate the migrated users you will run into a problem. The ADC will try to repl
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VMWare Player VMWare has released a freeware player for running VMware virtual machines. It can also run Microsoft VPC machines. You can read more about it and download it here .
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Deleting Cache Contens on ISA Server 2004 Deleting Cache Contents Published: June 16, 2004 Download You can download a copy of this page in .doc format DeleteCacheContents.doc 42 KB Microsoft Word file Get Office File Viewers Microsoft® Internet Security and Acc
Configuring MSDE I am not a database guru so the othet day I needed to edit the setup in my SBS MSDE database... I googled and found this . A supernice short run-through on how to configure MSDE. I saved a copy incase it would disapear -
DHCP Server is not serving clients after SBS SP1 update Q: My SBS servers DHCP server is not serving IP addresses to my clients since I updated to SBS SP1 A: Turns out that ISA 2004 protetects the internal firewall by default and that Internal network is not set up with the B
Manuyally registering proofing tools in Windows 1. Copy the .Dll and .Lex file for the language you want to add to c:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedProof 2. Add a registry hive pointing to the cossrect engine and lexicon for a specific language code : Window
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RAID explained... Are you confused by RAID levels? Here is an explanation :-)
Prevent CAB files from deleteing themselves after install If you copy a CAB file to your PocketPC and double-click on it, it will install and then remove itself. Some files are nice to keep on your Pocket PC or Storage Card in case you need to reinstall. The easiest way to keep
Windows 2003 Server DNS fails to resolve some querys When using Windows Server 2003 DNS some dns querys may fail because the Windows Server 2003 DNS Service is using Extension Mechanism which used UDP packets larger than 512 bytes. Some firewalls does not support this (so
Renaming Outlook System folders Part 2 (VBA Macro) The Microsoft Outlook 2000 VBA macro, which can be used to change the Outlook default folder names. Open the VBA macro with notepad and copy the code into the clipboard. Open Outlook 2000 and select 'Tools', 'Macros', 'V
Renaming Outlook System folders Part 1 (VB Script) ' RenFldr - Rename Outlook "Special Folders" ' (c) Neo (n...@mvps.org) ' 11.11.2000, v.1.0 ' 11.06.2002, v.1.1 ' Test System ' Windows Script Host v. ' VBScript v. ' Outlook 2000 (SR1a) ' Windows 2000 (SP1) ' Change Log
Problem unmounting drives in Kix Sometimes some drives kannot be unmounted with USE Z: /DELETE. This Applies mostly to manyally mapped drives. You can then use USE Z: /DELETE /PERSISTENT instead.
Additional Mailboxes Q: I have openened aditional mailboxes in Outlook. When I remove it it is still in my folderlist but I can't find it in Tools | Services | Exchange Server | Properties | Advanced . How can I ger rid of it? A: Start Reged
Wordfinder Om du får meddelandet att det inte finns fler licenser kan detta dero på att licenser plockats för användare som inte finns längre. För att avhjälpa detta plocka bort wfl.dat som finns i Wordfinders katalog under Program
Shared vs. Open Authentication SHARED KEY AUTHENTICATION ------------------------- When a wireless client (or station) connects to a wireless access point, there are 2 steps involved. First the station must be authenticated. If that passes, the statio
Unable to add SQL Server ODBC DSN If you are unable to add a new SQL Server DSN in Datasources it is probably due to a missing or corrupt sqlsrv32.rll file in c:windowssystem32. Extract a new one from MDAC (the version you are currently using) with mdac_
MDAC uninstall workaround Here is the trick we bought from Microsoft customer support for $250.00 Let me know if you have any additional questions/concerns. 1. Download the MDAC version you want on the box from: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/data
Why does my Exchange 2003 server take 10 minutes or more to shutdown? Why does my Exchange 2003 server take 10 minutes or more to shutdown? It seems that most users that install Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 machine that is also configured as a Domain Controller may experie
kix32.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command Question: I get kix32.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command when I am trying to call kix32.exe in a batch file logon script. Answer: Try this %0..kix32.exe %0..script.scr
SBS Transition Pack This was news to me... If you find you are outgrowing your SBS server and need "The Real Deal" you shold have a look at SmallBusiness Transiton Pack. Deherb3185's WebLog Microsoft FAQ
How can I create the DomainDNSZones directory partition? Question: How can I create the DomainDNSZones directory partition? Answer: Windows Server 2003 typically creates an application directory partition to hold the DNS information that's replicated only to domain controllers
What environment variables are available in Windows? Question: What environment variables are available in Windows? Answer: You can use environment variables to gain information about a system. For a complete list of environment variables available in Windows , see the fol
Installing Windows/SBS2003 hangs at "Registering components" with 13 minutes left. This is, if not normal, something you should not worry about. Found this in a newsgroup If it hangs at "13 minutes remaining", this is expected. Leave it be for about 20-30 minutes and it should move past this phase. At
Setting Terminal Server in Installation Mode When installing applications on a Terminal Server it needs to be in installation mode. This can be done in one of two ways: 1) GUI Goto Control Panel Start Add/Remove Programs Click Add New Programs and click CD or Flopp
Form-based Authentication in Exchange or not... Forms-based Authentication Exchange 2003 has a snazzy new feature called Forms-based Authentication, which I'll refer to as FBA. FBA is the new logon security feature for Outlook Web Access (OWA) which is disabled by def
Change Permissions on an Exchnage Mailbox How do I grant the administrator(s) (or any other user) full mailbox right on Exchange 2000/2003 mailboxes? In Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, when you grant Service Account Admin privileges on the Site container to a Mic
Change the Mailbox Name on an Exchange Mailbox Go to Exchange System ManagerServersYourserverFirst Storage Group Mailbox , on the right pane, you can see the Mailbox name is still being remained as the original surname. To resolve this issue, please follow my steps
PDF printer is missing Here is an article from Adobe thar explaines how to recreate the PDF printer that is created when you install Adobe Acrobat 6.0. Paragraph 8 was enough for me.
Problem Creating PDF document in Citrix There is a known bug in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (Rumours say thet this is fixed in 7.0) that preventes users from creating PDF Documents i Citrix. The Workaround seems to be having an administrator logged in to the Console. Re
Problem med Parallellport på Toshiba Tecra A2 Hade problem med en Toshiba Tecra A2 som när man slog på parallellporten i BIOS och startade Windows fungerade som den skulle men så fort man startade om maskinen så fanns inte parallellporten längre. Lösning: I BIOS var
"Logon Failure: Account Currently Disabled" and "System Error 1331" Error Messages When you try to connect to a server in another domain you get the error messages "Logon Failure: Account Currently Disabled" and "System Error 1331" Error Messages. This happens if one of the computers have been moved fr
MSMail in Outlook 2002/2003 Not that I am using it but apparently you are able to connect your Office 2002/2003 client to an old MSMail server... Unsupported ofcourse. Here is the description.
Problem with APC Powerchute on Windows Servers I just troubleshooted a server which on reboot stopped on "Applying Computer Settings" and refesed to start. The I stumbled om this and apparently there is a bug in APC Powerchute 6.x regarding an expired Certificate for
Debugging a Bluescreen I had a problem with a bluescreening computer today and had some time to spare so I thought I'd try to debug the mini dump. Googeling a little i found this excellent description on how to do it in Dana Epp's Blog . Links
Congratulations, you've installed DasBlog! Be sure to visit all the options under "Configuration" in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 16 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.
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Configuring Radius Authentication for VPN on Cisco Pix Cisco Secure PIX Firewall 6.x and Cisco VPN Client 3.5 for Windows with Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 IAS RADIUS Authentication Configuring the PIX Firewall PIX Firewall pixfirewall(config)# write terminal Building con
Variables in Batch Files SET Windows NT 4/Windows 2000 Syntax Note: The parts of this text that are displayed in magenta are valid for Windows 2000 only Displays, sets, or removes cmd.exe environment variables. SET [ variable =[ string ]] variab
Creating a Client VPN Policy !--- Access List for NAT-0 access-list NAT-0-INSIDE remark --- No address translation for the VPN connections to Local LAN access-list NAT-0-INSIDE permit ip 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 !--- Acce
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Manipulating Registry from a Batch file Manipulating Registry from a Batch file REGEDIT /S addsome .REG Adds registry settings from a file REGEDIT /E d:pathfilename.REG "HKEY_XXXXWhatever Key" Exports a a registry hive to file Example of a registry import file
Enable SSH On Cisco Pix hostname host domain-name domain.se ssh outside ssh inside ssh timeout 30 ca generate rsa key 1024 show ca mypubkey rsa ca save all On Cisco ASA hostname host domain-name domain.se ss
FSMO Roles FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations) Two good reasons for investigating FSMO a) Curiosity to know how this Single master operation works b) To know what to do if you lose one of the 5 vital roles. Background informat
SmallBusiness Server Stuff Länkar Komplett beskrivning av installation av SBS2003 Windows Server 2003 SBS SP1 Problem med att tjänster inte stängs ner ordentligt
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How to back up and restore http://companyweb data in Windows Small Business Server 2003 How to back up and restore http://companyweb data in Windows Small Business Server 2003 View products that this article applies to. Article ID : 829112 Last Review : May 4, 2005 Revision : 5.0 IN THIS TASK • SUMMARY • Ba
Forcing GPO Refresh Question: How can I force Group Policy to refresh on a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP machine? Answer: To manually force Group Policy to refresh under Windows 2000, you use the command secedit /refreshpolicy machine_p
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Unable to install the Intranet Component while installing SmallBusiness Server 2003 Question: Why do I have this problem installing SmallBusiness Server 2003 Answer: There is a known error on the first rease of the CDs of Smallbusiness Server 2003. Here is the KB and here is the patch: SBS2003-KB832880-
The terminal services client has been disconnected because its temporary license has expired. Error: The terminal services client has been disconnected because its temporary license has expired. Solution: This problem may occur if the Licensing Mode in Terminal Services is set to Per Device, the Terminal
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Escape Characters in Batch File Följande kan användas för att få till CR/LF i en sträng i en Batchfil $0a Line feed (LF) $0d Enter (CR) @echo off echo %temp%.echohex.com">Bj@jzh`0X-`/PPPPPPa(DE(DM(DO(Dh(Ls(Lu(LX(LeZRR]EEEUYRX2Dx=>%temp%.echohex.com ech
Forcing Election on Master Browser Question: The browsing on my windows network does not seem to work. Answer: The problem might be on the Master Browser for the subnet. If it is the one with the PDC Restart the Computer Browser Service on the PDC otherwi
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Avstängning av DEP stödet i Windows XP SP2 Fråga: Hur stänger jag DEP för problematiska applikationer? Svar: 1. Klicka på Start och sedan på Kontrollpanelen . 2. Dubbelklicka på System i klassiskt läge. 3. Klicka på fliken Avancerat , Prestanda och Inställningar
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Outlook Blockerar mitt tredjepartsprogram från att accessa min kalender. Problem: När mitt synkprogram försöker synkronicera med Outlook får jag upp följande meddelande från Outlook Lösning: Advanced Seurity är ett program för Outlook som tar över spärrfunktionen och ger möjlighet att ställa
Köra ett Script från en regel - Exempel Problem: Jag vill kunna köra ett script från en regel i Outlook Lösning: - Starta upp Outlook - Klicka på Visual Basic Editor under Tools/Macros i menyn - Dubbelklicka på ThisOutlookSession - Kopiera scriptet nedan och k
Generating a new MAC address in VmWare GSX Problem: I accidentally told VmWare not to generate a new id for a copied virtual machine. When I try to start both the oliginal and the copy the network traffic doesn't work since both of the machines have the same MAC
Solving Netdiag Problems [WARNING] At least one of the 'WorkStation Service', 'Messenger Service', 'WINS' names is missing. Since this a warning it is safe to ignore [Fatal] Secure channel to domain 'ourdomain' is broken. Reset th
Use PIX as DHCP Server :------------------------------------------------------Create DHCP Scope dhcpd address [start address]-[edn address] inside :------------------------------------------------------Create DNS Option dhcpd dns [primary dns]
Enable HTTPS Management :------------------------------------------------------Enables HTTP Server http server enable :------------------------------------------------------Restricts Access to PDM http 192.168.42.13 255.255.255.255 inside
Misc Commands write erase Factory Resets the pix reload Reboots the Pix isakmp nat-traversal 20 Enable NAT Traversal username [username] password [password] privilege 5 Adds a user for authentication to the Pix
Basic Config med DHCP WAN : Basic Cisco Config with DHCP WAN : : By: Johan Persson : Date: 2005-01-04 :------------------------------------------------------change Duplexmode interface ethernet0 100full interface ethernet1 100full nameif ethernet
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Uppgradera mallar i Notes... Ibland kan det strula "lite" när man byter malla på en mailbox i Notes... (Min personliga åsikt är att det här med mallar mest strular till saker.) Jag har hittat följande steg för att felsöka dessa problem men jag har i
Jag skulle vilja köra något i ett script som en annan användare utan att skriva in lösenordet i klartext... Det är inte helt ovanligt att man skulle vilja exekvera något i ett loginscript i ett annat security context. CPAU program ger dig möjligheten att åstadkomma just detta. Det ger dig även möjligheten att krypter lösenorde
Unknown Devices Har du någonsin råkat ut för att du har gula prickar i Device Manager men inte kunnat komma på vad det är. Här kommer räddningen: Ett litet program som heter Unknown Devices. Programmet scannar hårdvaru ID i enhetshanter
Ändra användarnamn och organisation i efterhand i Windows XP How to Change Name and Company Information After You Install Windows XP View products that this article applies to. Article ID : 310441 Last Review : June 11, 2002 Revision : 1.0 This article was previously published und
Problem vid uppkoppling till Citrix nFuse: Error:ICA file not found Users may receive the following error message when launching published applications through NFuse: “ICA File Not Found” The following scenarios are known to produce this error message: The Web pages were presented with t
