How to display hidden device drivers in Windows Device Manager

On February 1, 2012, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Ever wanted to find that other ethernet device that was pulled from you system but don’t see it anymore in Microsoft  Windows Device Manager? What about a pesky AOL adapter driver or some other non existant device that you want to get rid of?

In order to show hidden devices:

 

  1. Right click My Computer and Select Properties
  2. Click Advanced tab
  3. Click Environment Variables
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 In Exchange Server 2010 SP1, client throttling policies are used to manage the performance of the Exchange organization.  All client throttling policies are enabled by default i in Exchange Server 2010 SP1. The throttling policy has group settings that control the amount of resources that a user or a connection can use.

Throttling Policy settings are only applicable for Exchange Server… Continue reading

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How to force the Offline address book to update in Microsoft Outlook

On January 19, 2012, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

 

How to force the address book to update
When a new email account is created in Exchange it will not normally appear in the address book of others until the following day. This procedure shows how to force newly created accounts to be visible in the address book:

1.Force an address list update on the Exchange server… Continue reading

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[How To] – Patching Standalone vSphere 5 ESXi Hosts

On January 6, 2012, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

So you have a standalone ESXi host or 2 that needs to be patched with the latest updates coming out of VMWare and you do not have a VCenter or are otherwise using the VMWare Update Manager. Here is the basic steps to get you updated and all patched up.

 

 Here are the steps to getting your… Continue reading

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App Asure Replay CoreWith App Assure you may get the following errors after a new install of a Replay Core server and an the agent running on a Exchange 2010 server database.
Error

Thread: 2520

Logger: DsmRpChecker

Context:

Source Location: DsmRecoveryPointChecker.cpp:341

Details:

Mountability check for ‘Mailbox Database 0401075076’ failed: Exchange database engine error… Continue reading

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Customer Experience Improvement Program data fails to upload.

This alert is generated when a failure to upload the CEIP data to Microsoft fails on servers where you opted to be included in the CEIP. This is usually a firewall issue but sometimes admins may also have inatvertantly select to be included and really don’t want to be. To fix this or really turn it off you will find the task… Continue reading

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[Kaseya Script] Modify/Disable TCP Global Parameters on Windows systems

On November 23, 2011, in Scripting, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Need another Kaseya agent procedure? Here is one I use alot.

This article describes the TCP Chimney Offload, Receive Side Scaling (RSS), and Network Direct Memory Access (NetDMA) and other features that are available for the TCP/IP protocol inside of Windows. I have spent probably hundreds of hours on cases involving TCP Offloading and I know most of… Continue reading

[Kaseya Scripts] Repair VSS Writers on Windows Servers Agent Procedure

On November 18, 2011, in Scripting, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Are you having VSS issues?  Need a script to launch when either errors are reported or as a point and shoot script to repair VSS writer issues? Well Cubert has created a new VSS script that is fairly simple in nature but gets the job done nicely. This Kasey Agent Procedure was written for Kaseya 6+ RMM and has 2 parts.

Part… Continue reading

So you need a quick method to grabing folders from a UNC path and place a copy of them on a removable drive.  I had a customer who wanted to do the old USB drive swap for off site backup storage. I tried to explain that now with the advent of the cloud we could move the files off site without any user intervention but they really wanted to do… Continue reading

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