Hello All, I was wondering if anyone had a document to share regarding windows patching and the such. I have desktops, laptops, QA and Dev environments. I was thinking that I could have a general, “We will patch users, and IT managed devices on a weekly schedule”, and the QA and ENG on a less frequent schedule

Greg, The damage was caused by restoring the server using one week old image before the Exchange Server 2007 got broke as the result of Windows Update(.NET Fx 3.5 failed the Autodiscovery). after i restore the image using the clean build Exchange Server 2007, both DC failed to replicate each other, therefore I roll back to the faulty image and live with the error for more than one year until now lesson learnt: never restore DC using backup image software eventhough the server name is the same. Albert Tedjadiputra — Windows — Reply

I created a “how-to” for this proceedure. http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/214 Where were you Talon!?!

There was a new update ‘Office Live Add-in’ that we started offering through Microsoft Update recently for Office 2007. We’ve discovered that if you’re not the user on the machine that installed it (eg install add-in, …

Hi all;
Some notes from my previous company:
We had a:
5 year retention policy for desktop hardware 3 year retention policy for laptop hardware 2 year retentionpolicy …

Hi Laszlo, Just to say that adding a certificate to the root store using the API CertAddEncodedCertificateToSto re will also show a warning UI. This warning dialog is managed …

One assumes you’re referring to Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181); AKA MS08-069. For home users, no-charge support is available by calling 1-866-PCSAFETY in …

Hi, I’ve already posted at MSDN with no response. If anyone has a clue, please let me know. Environment: Windows Server 2003SP2 Standard with IIS6, SQL Server Express, …

I am typing this post as I follow the steps on teh server. Please excuse any disjointedness.
Exchange Tasks are available on the Right-Click Menu. When I choose it, there are options for Move …

I use www.eventid.net for almost all event errors. This site usually comes up with a fix, or at least a direction for me to investigate.
Subscription required to use the links, but …

Hello guys .I’m using WSUS to send updates to my users. When the updates arrive at the client’s PC and after have been installed the user gets the well known pop-up message to Restart now …

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released an out-of-band security update in bulletin MS08-067 . Looking at the type of vulnerability and the fact that the issue was already being exploited in the wild at the time, this was a good decision