Nintendo Wii – Won’t power on

The other day my daughter discovered our Wii wouldn’t power on. I was going to give up on it, but did a search and thanks to the site below our Wii is still working. All we needed to do was leave it unplugged for awhile. http://lamme.hubpages.com/hub/My-wii-wont-turn-on-Why-my-wii-wont-power-on Thanks

Windows Installer in Safe Mode

So I got a new laptop at work the other day. Just like any computer that I get I do a complete wipe and reload from the OS up just because I don’t like all the extra stuff that comes preloaded. So I grab my Windows 7 x64 with SP1 disc and do the install. Everything looks good. I get all the drivers loaded and get it updated. I start installing applications again no problem until I try to install Corel WordPerfect X5. I get through the whole installation and then it tells me my system wasn’t modified.…

Allow access to certain websites using IE

Internet Explorer LogoAt work, we have a few computers that sit in the open that needed to be used to access our website. Here are the steps we followed to lock Internet Explorer down to only our web site.
  1. Go to Control Panel (Click Start, Control Panel)
  2. Open Internet Options by double-clicking on it
  3. Click the Connections tab
  4. Click the LAN Settings button at the bottom…

Printer Spooler won’t stay running

I had a computer at work that was running Windows XP SP3 and it got infected with a fake AV product. I ran MalwareBytes on the computer and cleaned up the infection. I thought everything was working until the person tried to print. They got a message that said:

“Before you can perform printer-related tasks such as page setup or printer a document, you need to install a printer. Do you want to install a printer now?”…

Exchange 2007 – Message stuck in submission queue

Exchange LogoUp until today at work we didn’t have any size limits set for our email. I know this is unheard of now a days, but we couldn’t get them approved. We didn’t run into a lot of problems, but would have someone try and send really large attachments once or twice a year which would slow things down for awhile. Today; however, that changed. We had a user try to send an email that had 1.6GB worth of attachments. So once we got Exchange back up and running limits were put into affect.…

Windows Server – Redirecting new accounts

Windows LogoAt work we have our AD set up so that when we add a new computer to the domain the computer account gets redirected to an OU that we created instead of the default location of “Computers”. I’ve wondered how that was done for some time, but never took a minute to search. So today I was setting up a lab environment and decided to look into redirecting new computer accounts. What I found out was it is really easy to do. All you do is run one command from a command prompt on our Domain Controller and your done.…

Cisco Unity 7 – Can’t import AD user

Cisco LogoWe had an issue where a new Active Directory user couldn’t be imported into Cisco Unity to get voicemail. I did a search and found a post that talked about a similar issue with an older version of Unity, but I thought I would give it a try.

It said to look at the properties of the AD object. So I opened ADUC, went to the properties of the account and looked at the Attribute Editor tab (you need to have Advanced Features check on the View menu). Then I looked at the properties that started with “ciscoEcsbu…”. There are 12 of these properties. Some had a value of “<not set>” while others had information in them. I edited the properties that had values and cleared whatever was there. I then had our Unity Admin try to import the AD account again. This time everything worked as expected.…

Exchange 2007 – Renew Self-signed Certificate

Exchange LogoI was looking in Event Viewer on our Exchange 2007 server. I noticed the following entries in the Application Log.

Event ID: 12014
Source: MSExchangeTransport
Description:
Microsoft Exchange could not find a certificate that contains the domain name ourserver.domain.local in the personal store on the local computer. Therefore, it is unable to support the STARTTLS SMTP verb for the connector From PureMessage with a FQDN parameter of ourserver.domain.local. If the connector’s FQDN is not specified, the computer’s FQDN is used. Verify the connector configuration and the installed certificates to make sure that there is a certificate with a domain name for that FQDN. If this certificate exists, run Enable-ExchangeCertificate -Services SMTP to make sure that the Microsoft Exchange Transport service has access to the certificate key.…