I recently installed Microsoft CRM Server in a lab environment. The install went smoothly.. every test passed successfully. But when I loaded up the Deployment Manager, I kept getting the error: The specified Microsoft CRM Server is not responding. This might happen if it is currently unavailable or is not a Microsoft …

This is a bit recycled from the last post but I'm reframing it so that Googlers can easily find the solution. I've gotten Bluetooth to work in Windows Server 2k3. Here's are the steps: Download the bt_stack_rtm.exe and extract to a temporary directory. Navigate to that directory and, within the ENU directory, copy …

The US Government, as requested by the MPAA, threatend the Swedish government and forced them to break their own laws by seizing a pirating website. It is now being reported that the Swedish Department of Justice received what amounts to orders from the U.S. Administration, who had in turn received 'requests' from the …

Update: Seventeen years later. Who knew that protocols would evolve? Seems that Microsoft changed the order at some point or maybe Addison Wesley and O'reilly were both wrong? Seems unlikely. Anyway, this is the order that feels right and is documented by Microsoft in the undated reference, Microsoft TCP/IP Host Name …

The Macbook keyboard layout maps "Delete" to backspace which effectively makes it impossible to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete unless you have an external USB keyboard. The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit comes with a handy tool called remapkey.exe but if you don't want to download it, just save this code to a .reg …

Woohoo!! A few months ago, I contributed to onmac.net, hoping that somone would be motivated by the nearly $13,000 offered up to get Windows running on a MacBook. They did, and two weeks later, Apple came out with Bootcamp which did the same thing but better. I swore that THE DAY the 13 inch widescreen Macbook came …

This isn't a very common scenario, but I figured I'd write about it anyway. We recently implemented a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain at work. I suggested to my employer that, going forward, we only install SQL Server 2005 when we need a database server (phasing out 2000). I'd also suggested consolidating a couple …

I recently loaded up one of my servers and out of nowhere, I ran into this error: Server Configuration Error The server has encountered a configuration error attempting to process your request. The configuration parameter MD_CUSTOM_ERROR (6008) has an invalid value. Please contact the server administrator for …

Using a Custom 404 error script in IIS makes it possible to emulate a very basic URL rewrite. Sample Environment - IIS 6 - Website domain: "www.me.com" - URLRewrite directory: "code" Steps 1. Create a file named rewrite.asp in the code directory. 2. Add a Custom Error for the 404 Not Found. Open up …

[super old post, reposted] A few weeks ago, I asked in an IT forum if it was possible to have a "perma-VPN" connection with Windows XP. After searching for awhile, I found that Microsoft calls perma-VPNs "Demand-Dial Interfaces" and these can only be found in the Windows Server family, not Windows …