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SBS 2008 Migration - Replication Problem

Whilst migrating a customers SBS 2003 server to SBS 2008, I was getting a message saying “Active Directory replication is taking longer than expected”.  I clicked “Wait…” a couple of times, but nothing was happening.

Using the admin share (C$) I was able to access the installation logs on the destination server (from C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server) and saw [...]

April 2010 Update

April has been another busy month here at SkiptonSystems!

We learned this week that we have been given the contracts to design and build two bespoke web applications.  Both of these are relatively large projects and will involve both in-depth design work and some fairly complicated web application development. We hope to be able to bring [...]

Microsoft Bus Driver should be loaded in your system before installing Realtek HD Audio Driver

When building a new system for a customer, I was faced with the error:

“Microsoft Bus Driver should be loaded in your system before installing Realtek HD Audio [...]

System.EnterpriseServices.Wrapper.dll

We had an interesting error this morning.  A client called to say that they had upgraded a bit of software (a web application hosted on their SBS 2003 server), and were now getting a .NET error:

Could not load file or assembly ‘System.EnterpriseServices.Wrapper.dll’

After some searching around, we managed to fix the error by copying the %systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.EnterpriseServices.dll [...]

Not Enough Server Storage

We recently came across a problem whereby whenever anyone tried to access a share (or mapped drive) on our server, a message saying “Not enough server storage is available to process this command.” was displayed.  After some rooting around, we discovered that this was down to installing Acronis TrueImage on theserver.  Apparently, the same thing [...]

Running IIS 6 and Apache on the Same Server

We have a Windows 2003 server in the office, with Apache installed to run test sites on.  However, we wanted to install Exchange 2003, which meant installing IIS 6 onto the machine as well.  We had added multiple IP addresses to the server so that IIS could have one and Apache could have another (so [...]

Virgin Media Setup on Windows Vista

One of our clients called this morning because they have bought a new PC with Windows Vista on but couldn’t get it to connect to their Virgin Media cable modem.  When they ran the CD supplied with the modem an error message came up stating that there was no ethernet card installed.

After testing, it was [...]