There have been times where you will install a program, and it will work for days, weeks, without problems. The one day when you need to get into it, you get a pop up that says “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a [...]

By default Microsoft Windows hides many of its critical files from the user. One particular folder includes the user’s application data. There are times when you need to access these folders to access particular files or make backups.
WINDOWS XP & WINDOWS 2003
1. Goto my computer.
2. Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
3. Select [...]

So how old is that server you have running? Does it need a refresh copy of Windows Server? You can check the date of install by running the following in a command window
 systeminfo | find /i “install date”

Sometimes on your workstations the group policy doesn’t take affect. Or you need it to take place immediately. The command to invoke this is gpupdate /force

In ArcGIS Server manager, you are unable to create a web app. You receive the error “An error has occured on the server. For details, please check the event (application) log on the web server. Unable to retrieve ArcGIS install directory from the registry.
The reason is because 32-bit IIS/ASP.NET is not enabled. We were running [...]

This has been going on for months. January to be exact. A server running Windows Server Datacenter 2003 x64 edition, A Dell PowerEdge 2950. Dell has NO clue why this is happening. i’ve called them probably on an average of once a week and each time they say it’s been escalated. Anyone else having this [...]

When you use the command w32tm /resync, you receive this error. Why? A number of reasons. You do need to open port 123 UDP on your firewall for the domain controller so it can reach the external time source. If you want to sync your clients to your DC, you probably edited a domain policy to [...]

Brand new server
Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Enterprise Edition
Client
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Before upgrading to SP2 on my server, I could RDP with no issues. After SP2 was installed, RDP was such a dog. It took time to login to the server, and moving around was very hesitant. I went to the console and the machine [...]

I decided to create another VLAN on my network for a new development server, but keep the same domain name as my production environment. I tried to add it to the domain and here’s the message I received….
The domain name geowire might be a NetBIOS domain name.  If this is the case, verify that the domain [...]