Sunday, September 05, 2010                

Once Bitten
Author: Stephen Frost Created: 27/07/2010 9:36 AM
Musings on issues faced, problems solved, and things that go BUMP in the night. I'm currently a Microsoft-platform systems administrator in a VMware virtualised environment. In past lives I have variously been a bank employee, programmer and systems analyst, self-employed IT consultant and business owner, entrepreneur of sorts, IT Manager and GM National Office of a large church organisation. But now I am back to my IT roots!

By Stephen Frost on 9/08/2010 1:06 PM

Problems with a Cisco SG100-24 unmanaged switch which would not auto-uplink (caused by a physical cabling fault)

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By Stephen Frost on 2/08/2010 2:43 PM

Microsoft Outlook 2007 had stopped indexing content in my Inbox and in my archive .PST files.

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By Stephen Frost on 2/08/2010 10:52 AM

Had a problem with my Dell Studio 1747 laptop today ... it wouldn't play audio CDs ... and fixed it by reflashing the CD/DVD firmware.

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By Stephen Frost on 29/07/2010 11:43 AM

When deploying printers using Group Policy Preferences (GPPs) some Windows 7 (and Vista, and Server 2008?) clients may fail with result: Failure (Error Code: 0x80070bcb) due to Point and Print Restrictions.

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By Stephen Frost on 28/07/2010 8:33 AM

By properly aligning the disk partition and setting the cluster size to 64KB on a production SQL Server I was able to improve raw disk performance by 14% and SQL performance by a whopping 36%

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By Stephen Frost on 27/07/2010 9:57 AM

Explains an easy way to permanently remove those annoying Microsoft Favorites menu items: Microsoft Websites, MSN Websites, Windows Live and Favorites (aka the Links menu)

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