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…
Generic PC Found
When creating a desktop operating system install, we’ll often have a "computer specific” section, where we’ll install particular software for particular PCs. For example, we would install fingerprint scanning software…
“Beware of Integrated eSATA ports”
I don’t like quoting whole slabs of another blogs posts, but this is worth spreading to a wider audience: … If you only use a single drive attached to an…
Android and Microsoft Exchange
The Android has some Microsoft Exchange support; how good it is depends on the vendor. I was at a PDA software presentation the other day, and the vendor mentioned the…
SMS 2003 Server running slow, check your AV exclusions.
We had a problem with one of our SMS servers today, it was not processing DDR records. All 19,000+ of them. After some investigation, a co-worker found it was a…
Windows Update website – Error 0x80240025
on a Windows XP PC. As I wrote in Windows Update: Network policy settings prevent you from using this website ..., you’d often see a Windows Update error when your…
So you can’t boot from your CD/DVD drive?
I was watching someone install Windows XP on a system with SATA drives the other day. The PC would power up, look briefly at the CD/DVD drive, and then carry…