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It’s been a great year since I received the Dell TechCenter Rockstar title last year. Thanks to everybody at Dell that was a part of it. Yesterday was the day were we would now who got their title renewed and the new that would be nominated. It was great to see the list on the Dell TechCenter …

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Mar 21

Prevent users from rebooting terminal server with Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

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SCCM, SCCM 2007, Security, Terminal Server

A customer got a issue with Forefront EP 2010. It was installed on their Terminal Servers, and a file was detected by Forefront. The “biggest” problem was that all users got a pop-up telling that the server needed to be restarted to remove the virus. And if one user clicked restart, it would restart, even …

Tags: Endpoint Protection, forefront client, SCCM, SCCM 2007, Terminal Server

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Mar 13

Slow boot or slow login Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

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Client, Group Policy, Server, Uncategorized

Yesterday Microsoft released a hotfix that’s a big collection of fixes for slow boot and slow login on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Check this article from one of the PFE’s: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/12/slow-boot-slow-login-sbsl-hotfix-rollup-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2-available-today.aspx Tested this on a computer that before the hotfix would use 20+ minutes, after applying the hotfix it now takes about …

Tags: slow boot, slow login, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7

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Dec 10

Dell World 2012

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Earlier this year I was happy to receive an invite from Dell to attend Dell World 2012 as I’m one of the Dell TechCenter Rockstars. I accepted and I’m now sitting in Austin, Texas and waiting for it to kick off officially tomorrow. This is going to be some days with a lot of interesting things, both …

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Active Directory, Security, Uncategorized, Unified Communications

Aug 09

Insufficient access right to perform the operation, adding user to Lync 2010

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Got this problem trying to enable Lync for a AD user: Sounded a bit familiar to issues I have seen with Exchange, and did a check on the security permissions on the AD Object for user. And as suspected, it did not include inheritance of permissions. Ticked that of, …

Tags: ad, Lync, security

Jul 24

SCCM 2012 Endpoint Protection Updates not beeing deployed

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Client, SCCM 2012

A customer had installed SCCM 2012 and uses it for EndPoint Protection only for now. Half of the clients did not get the updateded definitions. I had a look on the deployment, and it gave this error: 0X87D00692 Group policy conflict. Did a check on group polices that applied to the workstations, and one of …

Tags: Endpoint Protection, GPO, SCCM, WSUS

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Jun 08

DC booting in Safe mode

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After running Windows update on a DC, it only came up in Safe mode. Logs showed no major errors, so should be no reason for it to do so. Using F8 under boot and choosing Normal did not change anything. Then I used this command: bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot And all was back to normal. Could also have used …

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Mar 20

Dell TechCenter Rockstar

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Got a surprise mail from Dell Techcenter today, I got an invite to be one of the TechCenter Rockstars. More info about the program can be found here: Fostering the people: TechCenter Rockstars I accepted and are really looking forward to be a part of the program, and to be able to give my feedback

Tags: Dell, Rockstars, TechCenter

Feb 28

Cisco AnyConnect and Windows 8

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Client, Security

Seen this error when trying to use the Cisco client with Windows 8? The VPN Client driver has encountered an error. The fix for me was pretty easy. Go into registry and go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpnva Check the DisplayName data value. On my installation, it had a bit of inf information before the actual name. So …

Tags: Cisco, Windows 8

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Oct 21

A fix for the interoperability issues between Exchange 2007 and 2010 EMC and IE9 is now available

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Exchange

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/10/17/a-fix-for-the-interoperability-issues-between-exchange-2007-and-2010-emc-and-ie9-is-now-available.aspx

Tags: Exchange, IE9