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If you backup a Windows 2003 Small Business Server than you may have noticed that even though the backup appears to have completed successfully in the Server Manager, hidden away in the log there is this error message:

"SqlServerWriter" has reported an error 0x800423f4. The backup may continue, but the data for this component will not be backed up correctly.

After a lot of Googling I finally found the issue is the log on for the server SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS).

The user on my server was configured as .\Administrator, Change it to DOMAIN\Administrator and restart the service. All should be ok on your next backup.

LINKS
http://www.winvistatips.com/ms-sql-2005-express-broke-vss-sbs-backup-t63...
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=912414 Read more »

So you've got a few hundred gigabytes of Windows Update data and you can't move them to a network share because shifting the content to a UNC path doesn't work? No problem!

After a lot of research and a few headaches the easiest way I found to do this was creating a virtual iSCSI target.

First thing to do is:

1. Download StarWind Free Edition
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-free
You have to register for a account but then its free

2. Install this on your SAN/NAS/Storage server Read more »

I look after a Windows 2003 server at work and had the problem where I forgot to enable the GPO 'Add the Administrators security group to roaming user profiles'. I've searched around and couldn't find a fix that didn't involve recreating all user profiles.

I actually worked out a way to fix this today without taking ownership of the folder, or recreating all the profiles. Here's how you can do it.

1. Log on to a machine as the problem user

2. Browse to you network share with the users profiles, usually something like \\***YOURSERVER***\Profiles$\

3. Right click on the users profile folder, go to the 'Security' tab and add the 'Administrators' group and give them 'Full Control'

4. Job done!

You MAY have to make standard users an Administrator temporarily to browse to the profile share but you can set it back after. Read more »

I had a complaint today that accessing a Sharepoint volume mounted as a network drive was very slow under Windows 7. I hadn't noticed this myself but having a look it was in fact true. There is an incredibly easy fix for it.

Open Internet Explorer
Open Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings
Disable 'Automatically detect settings'

Open your WebDAV or Sharepoint volume and all is OK again!

I thought I would post all the useful information I can get for running Android 2.3 on your Tattoo (Click).

First things first you will have to root your Tattoo and flash a new recovery image. Easiest way to do that is with the 1 click method. You'll need to flash ClockWorkMod 3.0.0.5 which is included. Read more »

I had a major problem at work today. I found sharing a StorNext volume via SMB on Windows Server 2008 makes subfolders and shares inaccessible to other Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 clients! However the same folders ARE accessible using Mac OS or Windows XP.

It turns out that SMB 2.0/2.1 is the culprit. If you havn't noticed this problem yet you will when your folders/shares have more than 19 files or subfolders within them.

The only solution is to disable SMB 2.0/2.1 which is easily done. Read more »

Wi-fi will not work unless you run a command in a terminal emulator with SPQRom 0.6 and overclocked kernel so do this to solve the problem without having to run a terminal or using gscript everytime you boot your phone!

From a command prompt in Windows:

Pull the file from your Tattoo using adb:

C:\>adb pull /etc/init.d/02squashsf c:\02squashsf

Open 02squashsf with WordPad and comment out the following line:

# busybox mount -o ro -t squashfs /dev/block/loop0 /system/lib/modules

Open a shell on your Tattoo with adb:

C:\>adb shell

Remount the file system as RW:

mount -oremount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Push the edited file back to your device:

C:\>adb push c:\02squashsf /etc/init.d/02squashsf

Restart your tattoo and you are done! Read more »

Download the latest Antec Fusion driver from here...

http://www.antec.com/download/Fusion_driver_070507.zip
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/index.php?page=support_faqDownload

Once installed navigate to the installation folder.

C:\Program Files\Antec\VFD or under Windows 7 x64 C:\Program Files (x86)\Antec\VFD

Right click on the VFD.exe application and set compatibility mode to Windows XP SP2. Read more »