How to fix the “Cannot attach the virtual hard disk …”
Dale... to the virtual machine. Check the values provided and try again.” error It sucks as an error message. Would it take too much programming effort to make it more…
“… No Terminal Server License Servers available …”
Strangely enough, I see this error occasionally when I connect to our corporate Citrix server farm. Googling for the answer, I found Microsoft’s answer, which was less than helpful. As…
Internet Explorer has issues with session cookies, fancy that.
The problem was reported thus. Internet Explorer is not storing session cookies for XYZ website. The session cookies are stored when we use Firefox. Two hours later, I can tell…
The case of the broken Microsoft Word VBA application
It was a Microsoft Word (VBA) application written back in 2001. Essentially what it does is: user selects a letter type. the user then enters some customer reference numbers. the…
“The Operating System Image file you have selected is not supported or has an invalid format”
SMS 2003 produces this error when you have decided to create a new Operating System Package. The frustrating thing is that it may work on one PC, and not another.…
The SMS Mirror Driver
The SMS Mirror driver is the root cause of the problem, with help from a dated video driver, the SMS Remote Control application (Wuser32.exe), and an unsupported operating system (Windows…
Equipment Superior To User
I had to change an email account password in CPanel, and I could not get my email client to connect to the mail server. In the end, I proved that…
Nothing is ever HP Trim’s fault.
It’s always the other guy, when something goes wrong. Trim is a Electronic Document Repository Management program, beloved by large companies. Records Management types seem to love it, but from…
From the crypt: old Microsoft KB articles I’ve collected.
Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP (KB314463) Essentially 32GB max size if using Windows XP/2000 to create it, 8 2 –> 8 terabyte if you wanted to…
Two SMS 2003 servers, one returns different data format for same query.
Problem When doing a database query via SQL, one of our Microsoft SMS 2003 Servers (MILDRED) was returning an incorrect number of characters (8) for a field. The field was…