TIPS FROM THE TECH ROOM volume 2
Greetings from the tech room again. You ever been unable to open Outlook? Not the normal “will not connect to server” or hexidecimal error message, but I’m talking about Outlook opening momentarily, then shutting down. The exact error I encountered on Vista SP2 recently was, “Cannot start Office Outlook. Cannot open Outlook window.” […]
Commas in free-tagging taxonomy terms
One of the nicest features of Drupal’s taxonomy module is the “Tag” option; users can enter their own tags, separated by commas, and the terms are automatically added to the vocabulary if they don’t already exist. On a recent project, we were setting up a free-tagging vocabulary for law firm names. In our testing, we […]
After cleaning Malware/Spyware from a PC, you get C:WINDOWSsystem32rundll32.exe Missing or Corrupt
After performing an offline scan of a Windows XP hard drive to clean Malware-Spyware, I booted the machine up as normal and most every desktop icon or executable including Control Panel icons was giving the prompt to “Application not found”. I attempted Last Known Good that did not help and ended up finding this registry […]
Sizing Storage Solutions, the Quick and Dirty Way
One of the things I do most frequently when it comes to storage solutions is make sure that a client understands their performance needs. There are really only two factors in disk performance: How long it takes for the disk to be read from or written to (measured in IOPS), and How long it takes […]
Force Regeneration of the Designer.cs File
At times while developing an ASP.NET project you may run into the following error in your code behind file: The name ‘controlName’ does not exist in the current context Often this is simply a case of a misnamed control or an error in your .aspx file. Other times, however, the problem can be due to […]
Backup Exec and Exchange 2007 GRT Backups
Here are some quick notes on Exchange 2007 backups with Backup Exec: Backup Exec needs unique named account for the first 5 Characters to run under. It can be administrator if you make sure no one creates an admin account with e-mail, but if you are like us it is better to just create an […]
Troubleshooting issues in Backup Exec 2010 with Exchange 2010 and error E000FE30
Having problems with backing up exchange 2010 in Backup Exec 2010? Getting an E000FE30 error partially through with the Backup Exec Remote Agent crashing? Here are some troubleshooting/testing steps you can try: 1. Test the individual components a. C Drive with a few files b. Full C Drive c. D drive with […]
Simple Command Line Trash
Do you hang out on the command line a good amount of time? Do you execute rm [-rf] on a regular basis? Have you ever wished that the file was moved to the trash instead (when you realize it at a later time of course)? Well, I have. So, I wrote a quick bash script […]
Server 2008 Hangs on “Installing and Configuring” Microsoft Updates
While I was recently rebooting a SBS 2008 server, the system had some pending Microsoft updates that needed to be installed. The server hung on “Installing and Configuring” 1 of 3 updates with 0%. I left it at this state for about 20 minutes and ended up forcing a hard shut down. This is commonly due to an XML file that is used for […]
Page templates in Zen-based sub-themes
One of the nice things about theming in Drupal is the ease of overriding items when theming. For example, if you wanted to drastically alter the HTML of the pages for certain content types, you could do so with overrides like page-content_type.tpl.php. However, a lot of themes don’t have support for this out of the […]
