Archive for April 2008

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Heroes Happen {Here} Challenge

April 18, 2008

While at Sydney Windows Infrastructure User Group looking at some of the funky NAP features of Windows 2008, our local Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist, Jeff Alexander, laid down a challenge to step up to the presenting podium and give a 10 minute presentation on a feature Windows 2008 . It’s part of a national call [...]

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Passing the Forefront 070-557 exam

April 18, 2008

Few days ago, thought “what the heck” and booked in the 070-557 exam. I’ve built enough labs and worked with the software for a while now and was feeling fairly confident I’d do okay. The exam wasn’t what I expected or perhaps I over estimated what the questions would be. To be fair, the Ms [...]

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Forefront Security Exchange Errors – Event ID: 6014 & 2017

April 13, 2008

While building another lab, I noticed these two errors popping up in the Application log: Event Type: Error Event Source: GetEngineFiles Event Category: Engine Error Event ID: 6014 Date: 4/13/2008 Time: 3:00:26 PM User: N/A Computer: EX Description: Microsoft Forefront Server Security encountered an error while performing a scan engine update. Scan Engine: Kaspersky5 Update [...]

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SMS/SCCM Forefront deployment

April 10, 2008

In a quest to deploy Forefront in a bandwidth friendly manner I was playing with SMS/SCCM to deploy the client and updates. To my delight, I found the blog pages of Yaniv Feldman. Yaniv has been there, done that and written a guide SMS SCCM Excellent work – then he goes and creates a Youtube [...]

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Stripping out Symantec Client Security problem

April 10, 2008

As part of testing, I was playing with a couple of laptops with Symantec Client Security. Removing Symantec when smoothly, that was until I tried to enable the Window XP Sp 2 firewall after rebooting. This charming error appeared when I attempted to start the Firewall service: Error 0×80004015: The class is configured to run [...]