You see it all over the place, in text based logs, windows event logs, everywhere. I’m talking about error codes such as 0x8007005. But what do they really mean and how can I find out more about them? You could try Google of course, but that might give you a heap or misdirected answers that don’t apply to your situation. Instead, let’s find out more about what the error … [Read more...]
Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer’s hardware
I was busy doing some testing with SBS 2008 recently and went to build a new VM from the ISO on my 2016 Hyper-V server. It failed with an error of “Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer’s hardware”. Interesting I thought, maybe it won’t run on my 2016 Hyper-V server, so I then went to build it on my 2012R2 Hyper-V Server and got the exact same … [Read more...]
How can I view log files live?
You’re troubleshooting an issue for a client, and the log files are all text based log files. The normal default goto tool used to read these is of course Notepad. The challenge however is how do you handle it if there are changes being made to the log files. Notepad just does not cut it at that point. A few years back, I was working on a project where we had to move 400 … [Read more...]
Active Directory Replication Status Tool
Microsoft have recently released a very cool tool that allows you to visually check our your Active Directory Replication status. Normally you would use repadmin to check the status of AD and the results of that would be viewed in the command window, and require interpretation. This tool is a GUI tool that allows less experienced admins to check the status of Active … [Read more...]
Outlook Logging folder consumes all disk space
I’ve got a problem that started in the last week where my hard drive on my laptop fills up quickly. I’ve used Treesize Professional to check out the disk space and can see there’s huge numbers of 3MB files in the “Outlook Logging” folder buried deep down under the “C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Outlook Logging\” path. I did some googling and found that this … [Read more...]