Building a Hyper-V virtual machine from scratch almost always seems to involve mounting an ISO image at some point during the installation process. I suspect that like us, many other organisations already have a network location in which we store ISO images. The ability to mount an ISO image from our usual network …

I recently saw the above error on a SharePoint 2007 install of a test system. Reading a few blog posts, it seemed that most people were reporting the error as an issue when there was a problem with communication between the SharePoint server on which the wizard was being run and the domain controller it was connecting …

The above two errors hit me recently while I was trying to get a CRM 4.0 development environment installed for some upcoming work. The first error shows up when the CRM 4.0 installer is checking the server configuration of the computer on which it is being installed as one of the final steps before installation …

I recently saw some disk related errors on my Windows Home Server. Following the usual course of action, which is to check the disks using the folowing batch file: net stop pdl net stop whsbackup chkdsk D: /x /r chkdsk C: /x /r for /d %%1 in (C:\fs*) do start chkdsk /x /r %%1 all seemed fine. Only minor disk problems …

To add domain users to a local machine group using Group Policy, we need to use the Restricted Groups feature. For the example shown below, I’ll be using a Windows Server 2003 domain functional level. Create a new global/universal security group in Active Directory to contain the users which you wish to add to the …

I’ve been a bit delayed writing this final blog post from Tech Ed EMEA 2008, so I’m back in the UK. The final day at Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT was not quite as session filled as previous days, mainly because Rik and I had to be heading off to the airport shortly before 3pm to catch our flight home. The first presentation of …

Today I had to run aspnet_regiis -ga domain\user to grant a specific domain user account access to the IIS metabase and other directories that are used by IIS. The server in question is running Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 edition and after running aspnet_iisreg from the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 …