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Forcibly Removing a Domain Controller

Summary We ran into the need for this document when one of our client’s server was powered down non-gracefully.  This caused the Active Directory database to become corrupted.  This domain controller was...

msdb Corruption on Small Business Server 2008

Problem: A server crashed from an abrupt power reset.  The server needed to have the System State restored from a backup.  When the server came up, the SQLEXPRESS service would not start.  This was the...

Exchange 2007/2010 Sends But Won’t Receive

Server space is sometimes the issue. If it falls below a certain threshold (20% or so) then it may stop receiving mail. If it happens suddenly I have seen our backup cause the issue. In one example the...

OWA Has Blank Screen, &reason=0 in the URL After Exchange Update Rollup

This happened on 3 servers after exchange 2010 sp1 update rollup 7. When you go to use OWA it just redirects to a white screen with a long url that ends in &reason=0.   Go to start, admin tools,...

Corrupted / Failing Windows Updates on Server 2003

Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press ENTER after each line: net stop cryptsvc ren %systemroot%\System32\Catroot2...
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