Today I achieved 070-647, it was a decently hard exam as to be expected ofcourse for the level of expertise required to pass and know all the items questioned within it. Focus will now shift from 2008 basis to my Messaging Specialism, which I will be upgrading from MCSA:M with an additional 2007 MCTS in […]
Problem Installing FEP Client (0x80070645)
Cross-posting some of my findings I also posted in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/FCSNext/thread/2b853e6a-b05f-467d-bd3e-31f0cdf5830e I’ve been having the same problem with several servers. I have found that uninstalling FCS can sometimes be a pain. If you open your REGEDIT and find the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products folder and here search for ForeFront you will find the 2 installations from ForeFront. NOTE: This […]
Debugging Scheduled tasks “Last Result 0XE0434F4D”
Ran into a problem today with using a scheduled task which was not executing properly after changes being made to it’s batchjob. Ofcourse the Windows Task Scheduler doesn’t give a very good description on the error message so I found a nice article that uses the following code: @echo off echo %date% %time% Start of […]
Completed 70-643
Passed 70-643 on Monday. Exam was relatively straight forward with some interesting questions and a good mix up of the subjects tested. Ran into very little Streaming Media server questions but I never really use that so that turned out okay. They now added a little questionaire in the start where they ask for your […]
WSUS / wuauclt.exe command line options
There is alot of static on the internet about the wuauclt.exe tool and the commands that actually work for it. Lots of discussions will give you a listing of options that will then be told off by someone as “not functional”. I’ve seen parts of the code in WUAUCLT.exe and found a list with commands […]
Completed 70-648
Appart from being a bit blown away by the sheer amount of Certificate and Encryption related questions the exam went well. Added MCTS AD and MCTS Network Infrastructure to my listing. Now on to 70-643.
Log on as Batch on Domain Controllers via Policy
Today I ran into an interesting problem regarding Windows 2008 and the long running “Time Sync” issue due to running multiple domain controllers on Virtual machines. (As far as I can tell this slowly de-syncs the clocks somehow between the host and client machine even if you disable the Time Sync in Hyper-V and also […]
Completed 70-682
Two days ago I succesfully achieved 70-682 after a short stint of studying. I have more studying planned for this month with 70-648 comming up tomorrow. This succes means I am now also MCTS Windows 7 Configuration and MCITP Enterprise Desktop Support Technician 7. More news soon to follow.
Cisco Summer / Wintertime
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Cisco ADSL on RomTelecom – PAP & CHAP Authentication
Had been struggling with the nasty authentication problem for one of the company sites in Romania. Turns out that in order to use the RomTelecom ADSL modules you should not use the ppp authentication command, which was causing rather strange behavior in the PAP & CHAP authentication monitor.