SBS 2003 Hyper-V P2V Intergrated Services and Error 1625

I had this error after P2Ving an SBS2003 and trying to load the integrated service into it from DS Restore mode.  For some reason the security policy had embedded itself so much that i couldn't load the MSI's.  After looking around for error code 1625 on the internets i found that it was obviously somethign to do with the Local Security Policy but quickly foudn out that it wasn't going to allow me to load these services.

After an hour or 2 i started the system up in normal mode and ran the services install, it ran fine and didnt seem to affect AD in any way.

Always try to install these services in DS restore mode so that you can sort the network connections and have AD work correctly.

-Fr33ze

Restoring Exchange on SBS2008/SBS2011 after moving databases to new drive

We had a client lose power and for some unknown reason it decided to trash the C: Drive of the SBS VM.  So after recovery of the C: Drive using shadow protect, the system booted fine.

I was expecting an issues but this one annoyed me a bit.

After starting up i noticed the exchange databases were not mounting, after trying to mount it and it saying that there were missing committed transaction logs i realised that i had only restored the C: drive which restored older logs and the main database being on another drive was the current version and had already committed logs that now didn't exist.  This occurred because we had to restore from 11am and the power loss occurred at 11:50am which meant that the 12pm backup didn't run.

After figuring this out for 2 hours (OMFG 2 hours), i then mounted through SP both drive and exactly the same point in time from the backups.  I then copied both the log folders and the database folder to their respective places in the system and SUCCESSFULLY mounted the databases, unfortunately there was a loss of email, but a small loss is better than no database.

So to sum up when restoring an exchange database that is split on 2 different drives make sure you are either restoring ALL Hard drives or restoring the entire database directory and the log directory from the SAME point in the backup.

-Fr33ze

Installing an older verion of Flash Player.

We have a software product that we distribute called IdealPOS (http://www.idealpos.com.au/)  this software requires a particular version of Flash depending, i think, on the version of the software.  So today i had a client call regarding this software crashing when starting up, i knew i had to install Flash 10 but after uninstalling Flash 11 i couldn't install version 10.

After about a second googling the issue i cam across this article:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557125/how-do-i-install-an-older-version-of-flash-player

Briefly it tells you to delete the registry key:

HKLM\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions\

This will allow you to re-install the older version of Flash.

-Fr33ze