I was unable to install Silverlight on a Windows 2003 server, it failed with error 1625. I took a look in the %TEMP%/SilverlightMSI.log and found this entry: This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator. This was strange as we don't have any GPOs to restrict software and UAC …

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I was unable to start SQL on one of the nodes of our 2008 R2 clusters. The resource status would show as Online Pending and then eventually fail. It turns out that the SQL Browser service was disabled on the node. After enabling it, SQL started up immediately.

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We're currently deploying Lync 2010 and needed to provision some certificates for the Edge server from our internal PKI environment. The Lync certificate wizard was used to generate the request and when it was submitted to the CA we got this error: Denied by Policy Module 0x80094800, The request was for a certificate …

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Recently we had an issue with our OCS 2007 R2 edge server.The OCS services refused to start and the server was very sluggish in general. After some troubleshooting it was determined that some of the services would start if the network interfaces were disconnected and performance also returned to normal. Odd but it was …

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I was building a new server in the DMZ and got the following error when attempting to add the WSUS role. After doing a bit of research it turns out that WSUS is not included in the binaries for 2008 R2 and either needs to be downloaded from Microsoft or an existing WSUS server. Since this server has no internet …

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I'm using the EvoLve WordPress theme on my site and I wanted to customize the social buttons for Twitter and Google+ since they were both out of date. It is fairly straightforward to accomplish: Download a copy of the social-buttons.png file from wp-content/themes/evolve/library/media/images Open up the file in your …

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I was inspired to create this site by my recent trip to the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. I wanted to do something to contribute to the IT community and improve my skills. This is my first foray into WordPress and self-hosting, so far it's been pretty smooth sailing. This is my first post of many more to …

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