Remote Boot Bitlocker without a TPM
One of the challenges of implementing full-disk encryption is how to provide the key to unlock the drive when the system boots. This is especially important with servers, which may …
Back Up SQL 2005 without Full-Text Index
This script was supposed to be a download from the previous post, Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express. However, WordPress won’t let me set up a SQL script …
Moving Liberum Help Desk to SQL 2005 Express
For the last several years, I’ve been running Liberum Help Desk on SQL 2000 under IIS 6. With my recent upgrade to Small Business Server 2008, I needed to move …
Error Installing Exchange 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008
Today I wanted to install Exchange Service Pack 3 on my SBS 2008 box. MSKB 982423 says the only thing to worry about is Forefront, which I’m not using. I …
Copy Windows 7 User Profile
I had a Windows 7 laptop joined to an old domain that I needed to join to a new SBS 2008 domain. Following the advice in the MS Press book, …
Change Background of a Single PowerPoint 2007 Slide
It’s infuriating when something you’ve done for years in Office 2003 suddenly seems impossible in Office 2007. Case in point: changing the background of a single PowerPoint slide. It seems …
Can’t Install Exchange 2007 Management Tools on XP
The only supported way to import .pst files into Exchange 2007 is to use Exchange Management Tools installed on a 32-bit machine running Outlook 2003 or 2007: Exchange Team Blog. …
Best RAID and Cluster Size for a Small Server
What’s the best disk setup on a small business server? I recently got to play around with some options as I set up a Hyper-V host on a Dell PowerEdge …
ShadowProtect Fails Reading Hyper-V Pass-Through Disk
I decided to use ShadowProtect to do a physical-to-virtual (P2V) move of an SBS 2003 machine. I booted the SBS 2003 machine from a ShadowProtect 3.5 CD and created offline …
Re-Create Dell Utility Partition after Windows Server 2008 Bare Metal Restore
So you’ve used Windows Server 2008 bare metal restore and it wiped out your Dell Utility Partition. What to do? Background: I’m setting up a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine …