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Enable Windows Installer in Safe Mode

June 11th, 2009 Dale No comments

If you have ever been involved in fixing computers then you will know that windows installer is disabled by default in Windows Safe mode meaning that you cant install or remove programs.

You can enable it though by doing the following :-

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How to find out who has a particular email address in Microsoft Exchange 2003

June 11th, 2009 Dale No comments

Sometimes people in Active Directory have extra email addresses associated with them. This makes identifying who has certain addresses very time consuming.

An example of this might be someone that has the email address info@company.com you then go to create a mailbox with that alias and you get the following message come up :

This email address aready exists in this organization

In order to find out who has this address you can do the following :-

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Step by Step Guide on How To Connect An Apple iPhone to Microsoft Exchange

May 17th, 2009 Dale No comments

Below is a step by step guide on how to setup your iPhone with your work email address.

Please note: Please update your iPhone to the latest software before attempting this. You should be running at least 2.0.

Steps to follow:

1. Tap Settings ->


Tap Settings

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Vista and Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Download now Available

May 12th, 2009 Dale No comments

Microsoft has silently released sp2 for Vista and Server 2008.

Its now on technet and MSDN for download. Also available are the slipstreamed versions.

Service Pack 2

Not sure how long until they are publicly released

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How to forcefully kill a virtual machine in VMware ESX

April 22nd, 2009 Dale No comments

I had an error message come up about a VM:

The redolog of xxxxx.xx.vmdk has been detected to be corrupt. The virtual machine needs to be powered on. If the problem still persists, you need to discard the redolog.

I couldn’t power off the VM and it was stuck in an endless loop prompting me to click okay.

Found a good guide on how to kill the VM without having to power cycle the host.

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