ran across this particular error today. in this instance the error message referenced a “gwmsp1.dll”. turns out the user had remnants of novell groupwise installed on their PC including a GW mail profile. after creating a new mail profile with autodiscover and setting it as default i was able to delete the old GW profile. […]

i always end up having to look up how to use vmware-cmd so i’m finally notating the useful options. to shutdown a VM use vmware-cmd <myvm.vmx> stop to start a VM use vmware-cmd <myvm.vmx> start then of course it’s nice to use esxtop to see which VMs are currently running on a host. if you’re […]

the easiest way to get a copy of the IE9 admin templates seems to be to install IE9 on a 64-bit computer (or the domain controllers themselves). after IE9 is installed new copies of the admin templates will be in c:\windows\policydefinitions. in this case the files are inetres.admx and inetres.adml. the new copies can then […]

the 37e200u tv has a great picture but unfortunately has poor native audio output. this usually isn’t too much of an issue because you can simply turn the volume up loud enough to hear tv shows and what not. unfortunately, the problem seems magnified when the A/V source is a dvd player, streaming device, cablebox […]

this is a particular issue that we struggled with for over 2 years. we had a windows 2008 standard VM used as a file server (for user home directories to be exact). the server was dedicated for that task. the server began becoming unresponsive randomly sometimes several times a day sometimes once every few months. […]

i’ve had problems in the past where i couldn’t get a particular VM console to come up. typically, i’d first close the vsphere client and reopen it and that would resolve the issue. other times, vmware tools might have been in a funky state on a particular VM. recently, i encountered a persistent behavior where […]

i’m playing the first mass effect game now. i’ve been looking forward to playing this ever since finishing kotor1. i’d put kotor1 on my list of best games played ever. mass effect is actually my 3rd bioware game (not counting neverwinter nights because it’s not as dialog driven as other bioware games). the 2nd bioware […]

we had a server designated as a distribution point for the absolute manage product. unfortunately, it experienced an unrecoverable hardware failure. i (finally) got windows reinstalled on this server and went about reading how to get it set back up as a DP. after browsing through the AM user’s guide it seemed fairly simple…just need […]

today i was messing around with trying to mimic access based enumeration (ABE) permissions on a non-windows NAS unit. i can get close but not exact… first create a security group for the root folder share with List folder contents permission only and most importantly apply to This folder only. this prevents the list folder […]

at some point in the netflix xbox360 app i accidentally enabled closed captioning while meaning to use the “more episodes” button. ever since that happened closed captioning has been enabled for everything i stream. i’ve been manually disabling the feature per session and that has gotten tiresome fairly quickly. apparently (i haven’t verified this as […]