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Uninstall of SQL fails with error about RsFx Driver

I was working on uninstalling installations of SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 R2 to later do a clean install of SQL 2012. All seems to be going relatively smooth until I encountered the following message: Warning 26003. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup Support Files cannot be uninstalled because the following products are installed: Microsoft […]

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YouTube Down – 500 Internal Server Error

It seems like YouTube is down for the last 30 min’s for me. In all the years I have used it; never once have I experienced this. When I navigate to the site I get the following: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to […]

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Unresolved Error: Server 2012 – Event 1000, Application Error

I came across an issues with my Windows Server 2012 / Exchange 2013 RU2 Server. After an unexpected shutdown message I was able to find out the faulting application which caused the reboot was LSASS. There was an event message in the system event log of: The process wininit.exe has initiated the restart of computer […]

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SQL Server Database Error: 661

One of my customers had an issue where they failed to open a connection to a particular database they had been testing. The error read: ‘the database e:somepathsomefolderjermsmit.mdf’ cannot be opened because it is version 611. The server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported. This issue is caused because you […]

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Issue: Outlook Address Book Not Updating

Symptoms: New users added to Exchange 2010 do not show up in global address book Tests Performed: 1. Searched for new users from Outlook – This failed 2. Searched for new users from OWA – This works 3. Put Outlook in non-cached mode and searched – this worked Suspected Problem: Offline Address Book Generation is […]

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MapiException: TooManyMountedDatabases when mounting database

I was hit with a nice error when attempting to mount several Exchange databases on my new Exchange 2010 SP2 server that I had setup in a lab envionment for production testing. The error: ——————————————————–Microsoft Exchange Error——————————————————– Failed to mount database ‘IJ’.IJFailedError:Couldn’t mount the database that you specified. Specified database: IJ; Error code: An Active […]