Category Archives: Microsoft

Upgrading Windows 2008 from virtual HW 4 to 7 may cause problems

By | November 23, 2009

Just found this very interesting article http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1013109 describing a problem with Windows 2008 and ESX 4 virtual hardware version 7. In short the article states that you might have the disks go offline in a Windows 2008 VM if you Upgrade virtual hardware from version 4 to 7 Installing a new VM with virtual hardware… Read More »

32-bit ODBC DSN required for vSphere running on 64-bit OS and MSSQL

By | September 29, 2009

Last week I upgraded a Virtual Center server from Win2003 & MSSQL 2000 (32-bit) to Win2008 & MSSQL 2005 (64-bit). During the installation of vCenter it asked for a 32-bit ODBC even though all the new systems was running 64-bit. After a some time on Google i found that Windows 64-bit also includes a 32-bit… Read More »

Black screen in a Windows VM or an a physical server

By | September 10, 2009

Over the past few months we have seen a few Windows servers with a black screen. Meaning You can’t see the logon promt You get a black screen when you connect with RDP We found that the problem was caused by a change in the Windows color scheme. The solution is to copy the color… Read More »

Microsoft is giving SharePoint Designer 2007 away for free

By | April 7, 2009

Finally Microsoft is giving away it’s software for free. They are starting with SharePoint Designer 2007 (formally Frontpage). It’s a start and I’m hoping they will keep up the “good work” 🙂 Get it from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42

Service Unavailable – On a Windows 2003 SP1 server.

By | May 1, 2007

Today, after installing a VM with Windows 2003 ee, SP1 and IIS, I got ‘Service Unavailable’ when i tried to see it the webserver worked as planned. After quite a bit of googleing, I found a working solution. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899965 In Start -> Run type “dcomcnfg” Right Click “IIS Admin Service” under Component Services -> Computers -> My Computer… Read More »