Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Setup cannot continue version error when installing R2 on Server 2003 x64

This article is probably a few years late, but maybe you're like me and are still primarily using some version of Windows Server 2003 an...

Monday, May 17, 2010

How to open printmanagement.msc for managing your printers

I had never heard of print management until recently, while working on figuring out how to share 64 bit print drivers from a 32 bit server. ...

Sharing 64 bit printer drivers using a 32 bit Windows print server

I've finally made the jump to 64 bit computing by adding some Windows 7 x64 machines to my environment. However, I do not have any 64 ...

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Free conference call service - freeconferencecall.com

If you're wondering how you're going to make your next conference call and you don't want to pay for a conferencing service, che...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Windows Vista won't update, getting error 80072EFE

I had to scratch my head on this one for a while. I had someone ask me to look at their personal Vista Home Premium laptop because it wasn...

Monday, April 5, 2010

Illustrator CS3 Unknown Error when trying to save a file

I had a user who couldn't save their Illustrator files, but had no trouble doing it the week before. It didn't matter whether she wa...

Thursday, April 1, 2010

How to install CUPS-PDF in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Adobe did away with it's Adobe PDF printer in OS X 10.6 stating enhanced security prevented it from working. However, CUPS-PDF does t...

Error c1041739 when mounting a mailbox store in Exchange 2003

I ran into error c1041739 "The database files in this store are inconsistent" when trying to mount a restored mailbox store on a b...

Black box around things or computer is talking to you in Mac OS X

If you're using a Mac and all of a sudden your Mac starts speaking to you, or you start seeing a black box outlining everything you clic...

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How to disable Windows 7 Aero snap feature

You may have seen the new window snap feature advertised in the commercials for Windows 7, but after using Window 7 for a week I can tell yo...

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