Servers
Windows 2008 Server Access Problems with Antivirus Installed
I came across a bizarre problem a few months back that I thought I would share with all of you. It involved a multi-processor IBM rack mount server with dual Xeons, 4GB RAM and a ton of raided disk space.
This server was running Windows 2008 Server, and was replacing an aging Dell Windows 2000 Server. [...]
The case of the rogue DHCP server and using DHCPLOC
Recently a customer asked me to troubleshoot a strange problem with their DHCP server service on the main Windows 2003 Server shutting down randomly. At first it wasn’t that much of a problem as most of their leases were 14 days, so quite often it would be down and not noticed for days.
It was only [...]
Increasing Exchange 2003’s Mail Database Size
One thing I find the most infuriating with Exchange 2003 (and possibly Exchange 2007) and also the one thing that I constantly forget about and have to google, is that out of the box Exchange 2003 has a hard limit of 16gb for the size of the information store.
This basically means that the total of [...]