Archive for October, 2009
SonicWall email alert: INFO : FQDN : Outbound Safe Mode enabled
If you start receiving these INFO messages, then you either A) Have Outbound Safe Mode enabled (in which case expect to receive one email per hour reminding you of this fact) B) Have Zombie and Spyware Protection enabled and you experienced an event which tripped the OSM feature, which locks down emails leaving the organization to [...]
Sonicwall Outbound Email – Sending bulk mail that won’t be caught by SW
Make sure you check your Zombie Protection Settings to make sure that the Email Accounts you’re using to send outbound mail are listed in the Miscellaneous section for exemption. This section is found under Anti-Virus Techniques / Outbound tab. Also add the sending Email address to a Filter for Outbound email under Policy and Compliance / [...]
SQL 2005 – Truncate Log Files and Recover Space
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on October 28, 2009
Here is a useful set of scripts to help you to shrink up your log files for SQL 2005 databases. I used this recently on my HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager) database and it freed up over 4 Gigs. I want to note that using this method won’t be ideal for every environment, situation or [...]
DCOM Event ID 10010
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on October 23, 2009
If you get a DCOM error in your event log, you can get rid of it easily by registering the offending object with DCOM: Open Component Services from the Administrative Tools and click on DCOM Config (see below) For each Warning click YES You’re done
Mailmeter 4.3 known issue: Job Dispatcher service doesn’t auto-start after server reboot
Waterford Technologies tells me that there is a known issue with version 4.3 of their Email Archiving software that causes one service not to start up automatically upon rebooting the server that it’s on. This service is the “MailMeter Job Dispatcher” service which is responsible for compacting the archives. There are a couple issues with [...]
Deleting and clearing SOME Internet Explorer address bar entries
Someone asked me about this and my first thought was “Sneaky sneaky! You probably want to hide your gambling links from your wife!” which is probably true, but who am I to judge. Trying not to jump to conclusions, I assumed a more pure intention and my immediate response was “Why don’t you save the links you want [...]
“an error occurred while copying” xp sp3 install error unires.dl_
Posted by Mitch in Network Admin on October 2, 2009
I received this error when I was installing XP SP3 on a machine that was giving me trouble. This particular machine had been updated with SP3 and KB946648 via WSUS previously and even though it had SP3 and that KB installed already, WSUS was saying that there was an error with both of those updates. I tried [...]