I’m very often called in to find out why a backup has suddenly stopped working. I am, however, never called in to optimize or improve performance on backups. Unfortunately for my customers as with a little forward planning and a touch of optimization, many of the data backup problems can be circumvented completely or, at least, planned for.

Whilst setting up a new backup system for a customer I happened upon the following article which I find very useful:

http://www.backupexecfaq.com/faq/getting-started/optimising-your-backup.html

 

This one was irritating!

The policies were just not replicating between the two servers.

I fixed it in the end using the BURFLAG setting D4 for the value on the function server and D2 on the malfunctioning.

The following article explains how to do this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290762

 

This was a nightmare of a problem. I have sat here in front of the PC for hours and hours – emptying massive amounts of bad quality Norwegian Friela coffee down my throat and slowly bit by bit working this problem.

I have two sites and the replication just would not work. I found the following link invaluable in helping me to work through this issue.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727057.aspx#ECAA

 

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This lovely little error sometimes pops up when we are visiting customers whose servers we haven’t worked with before.

It often appears when trying to initiate the MSINFO32 application or using help & support.

Here is the fix:

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Navigate to %windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries
3. Run “start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install”
4. Once this command completes the Help and Support service should now appear in services.msc
5. Start the Help and Support service

 Stumbled upon these guides:

Download details: Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides

Firstly you must try your best to remove the Everyone group on your permissions in your network whenever possible - perhaps replacing it with Domain users - this would have the desired effect of limiting guest users as long as they are not members of Domain Users.

Another workaround:

Create the AD object and mail-enable it.


Open the properties of the object, go to the Account tab, and click on Log On To.

Select The Following Computers and enter the name of the server you use for OWA.

The user will only be able to log on to one of two places. The OWA server (Exchange Front End or Back End) and OWA. As long as you take proper precautions for the Exchange servers, that limits access only to OWA.

Windows 7 command-line tools and programs

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 : Installation with John O'Donnell | jodonnell | Channel 9
A nice little introduction to the installation.