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I could not find this info on the net, so when I figured it out I decided to document it. Dell D430 D420 hard drive ribbon cable replacement requires releasing the zif connecter latch. This latch it very very small. It is the little black plastic piece to the rear of the putty colored ribbon...

I recently replaced the motherboard in a Dell Latitude D620. There is a known issue with the Nvidia video chip on the D620 and D630 model and Dell seems to be willing to replace the motherboard if you are less than one year out of warrenty. Here is my step by step that I used in conjuction...

I am an IT Professional and I picked up a nasty virus today on my home PC. I would like to post how I removed it to help others who are not professionals. I picked up the virus browsing the web with Internet Explorer. I knew I had a virus because a FAKE antivirus program started popping up on...

I was trying to make a ghost image of a hard drive and my destination was a USB 2.0 stick. I kept getting the error 662. -ABORT: 662, Cannot create image file I also had a USB mouse connected to the computer. I disconnected the mouse and put the USB drive into the port the mouse had been...

On Exch 5.5, you could disable the System Attendant service and then all Exchange services would not start up on the next reboot. What is the best method with Exchange 2003 to be able to reboot without exchange services running when the machine comes up. Thanks

I use the Dell server install disk to load Windows 2003 and create an OS partition. Unfortunately that does not result in an "aligned" disk. See this URL for background on what "aligned" means: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2005/08/10/408950.aspx Most of the articles on diskpart don't...

I have always liked Linksys routers except for this VPN problem. I have WRT54GS version 2. I am a network administrator and could NOT after hours of research on the web get the basic windows VPN client to work on this device through a static IP DSL modem. I finally gave up monkeying with...

I run IT at a medium size company. We are a Dell shop with laptops and desktops. I just had my third D630 start freezing up with video streaking through the Dell logo on required hard reboot. The freezing up is random and just starts happening. It slowly gets more frequent. On one laptop it...

I built a new computer with XP SP2. Then I downloaded the stand alone XP Service Pack 3 and installed it. Then my Windows Updates would download and fail to install. The solution is to go to Run and enter: regsvr32 wups2.dll and then press OK. Once again, amazed at the end user having...

I have 4 Gig of RAM installed on Dell PE2850. Exch 2003 sp2 - 100 users - 20G infostore Bootini /fastdetect /3GB /userva=3030 /noexecute=optout The store.exe never seems to go above 1 gig or ram. I was expecting it to use more of the ram I have installed. Machine is running fine. Is that...

With Exchange 5.5, I backed up my separate OWA server once a month by making an offline image of the disk using Ghost. Now, my Exchange 2003 OWA is also my front end server, but there are no mailboxes on it. Will an offline ghost image backup of the disk work in this more complex environment...

I searched previous posts and hope I did not miss something, so pardon if I am repeating a question and thanks in advance for advise given. I recently upgraded from Exch 5.5 to 2003. I was very comfortable with 5.5 backups, restores, redirected restores, etc. (received great help with that on...

I searched previous posts and hope I did not miss something, so pardon if I am repeating a question and thanks in advance for advise given. I recently upgraded from Exch 5.5 to 2003. I was very comfortable with 5.5 backups, restores, redirected restores, etc. (received great help with that on...

I want to post this fix for others who may be having the same problem. I have been using Excel 2000 to make invoices for years. Office 2000 has an invoice template that included an invoice toolbar. This allowed you to capture data in the invoice and have it automatically added to a database...

Posting this for anyone else with the problem. In the Exchange 5.5 EventConfig public folder I found old entries for servers that have been long gone. I wanted to clean that up before upgrading to Exch 2003. ( eventconfig_servername is how the items appear ) 1. Stop the Microsoft Exchange...

I am putting Exch 2003 on a 2850 with 6 hard disks (4 - 76 gig and 2-146 gig). (70 users) I am torn between two raid layouts: Layout 1 OS and Logs and Swap in separate partitions on 2 - 146 gig drives RAID 1 Database on 4 - 76 gig drive RAID 10 Layout 2 OS and Swap in separate partitions on 2...

I was getting a nagging event error: NETLOGON Event ID: 5781 Dynamic registration or deregistration of one or more DNS records failed because no DNS servers are available. I also ran netdiag.exe from a command prompt and got a failure: Failed to query SPN registration on DC 'DNS domain name'...

This thread has evolved from the DST issues with Exchange 5.5 (e5.5). Many on that thread are ready to upgrade to Exchange 2003 (e03) in April. This is my plan too. If you already have an action plan please post so we can compare notes. If you run into problems post those too. Here's to...

Has anyone installed KB926247 on their Exch 5.5 sp4 box? Just wanted to check and see if there were any issues? Thanks RWS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926247