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    Cannot consolidate virtual machine

    This morning in vCenter one of my VM's was flagged with a warning that it needed consolidating. I have been attempting to consolidate it without having any luck so far. I am running two Esx5.1 hosts. First I tried to consolidate from snapshot manager and I got an error about locked files...
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    Securing smtp traffic between 2 exchange servers on different domains

    Hi I have a requirement to secure the traffic from my company domain (CompanyA.co.uk) to another domain (CompanyB.com), and also (obviously) I do not want to disrupt the rest of my company email! I have got tremendously confused researching this today and yesterday. Currently we have one...
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    .NET update keeps prompting to be installed

    Hi, I have a physical server running windows server 2003 64bit. Recently it constantly prompts me to install 1 critical windows update (kb2742596) which is an update for .NET 2.0 SP2. I have installed this update about 4 or 5 times. Each time i get the window saying update was installed...
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    Outlook 2010 autoformat problem

    Hi, this is a small problem for a few weeks now that has me stummped: I've got 2 workstations, they are set up the same, both have Office 2010 installed - including Word and Outlook. On the good client the autoformat works fine, if i type "i" Outlook will change it to an "I", if i type "isnt"...
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    Firefox works fine, IE8 doesn't

    I have the following issue on 3 machines and i was wondering if anyone else has had anything like this. Summary: Firefox works (ver 12.0), but Internet Explorer (ver 8 or 9) doesn't. More detail: On the XP machine, i cannot run Enterprise Manager (Oracle web admin) from IE8 - page cannot be...
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    How do you update to vmware tools 7

    Hi, i'm really confused. Normally vmware is no problem but today i can't get anywhere, i have been searching the net all day for the answer to this. I am running VSphere version 4, i've got 2 hosts and i use Veeam backup software for replication. I have this error on replication jobs: "Changed...
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    Black line on a dual monitor setup

    Hi, I am posting this cos i'm at my wits end. I am sysadmin for a small office, the setup is dell workstations and dual monitors. I have a dell optiplex 745 with and ATI radeon 6350 grafix card connected to 2 dell 24" monitors. The problem is that when both monitors are connected there is a...
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    How do you shutdown Oracle 11g running on windows?

    Hi I have 5 running Oracle servers, currently we are upgrading from 10g => 11g. I am searching for the definitive answer to the question: Does Oracle shut down automatically when Windows is shut down? Or does it need to be shutdown manually first? Our original Oracle consultant (who had a unix...
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    Can you ever trust the Search in Windows 7 ?

    First of all i must say please don't reply and tell me 'tick the box for show all files and folders' - i've tried that. Background: I recently upgraded the office workstations from XP to Windows7. Since then i've had difficulty with the new windows search. Today i gave up on it and downloaded...
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    backups don't complete after upgrade to 2010 R3

    Hi Just upgraded to backup exec 2010 R3. Backups seem to work, the byte count is correct and the tape ejects but the backup job remains active in Job Monitor. Nothing gets rid of it except restarting the server. If you try to cancel the job you just get 'Cancel Pending'. Even tho there is no...
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    adobe hanging or being slow, possible related network error

    Hi. We run adobe 7 on windows xp workstations. Everything is fully patched. I have one workstation which sometimes hangs on doing pdf conversions, although most of the time it does convert successfully it is always slow - like a number of minutes slower than other equivalent workstations. In the...
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    how to stop a job running since december

    Hi I'm running Oracle on windows, server 2003, small database, pretty simple setup. There are 2 jobs which are running and i can't stop. I have tried stopping them from Enterprise Manager - it says that they have been stopped: 'Confirmation, Your job has been stopped successfully'. But this...
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    how to 'really' clear out dump area?

    Hi. I'm running Oracle 10gR2 on windows 2003 Could someone explain what exactly does the message "78% of dump area used" mean in Enterprise Manager? - and how to make it go away?? i have cleared out the bdump directory - it had about 83MB, i left the alert log (obviously) and the latest traces...
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    How to set default header font in adobe acrobat 7?

    Hi, Does anyone know a way of setting the default header font in acrobat? Ours always sets itself to arial 8 point. We want it to be times new roman 10 point. There must be a way of doing this globally so we don't have to set it individually in every pdf??
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    How to add drive letters to IE8's Trusted Zone?

    Hi, We have some internal files (xml and pdf) which we open using Internet Explorer, however when the files are accessed via a network drive then IE8 thinks it is in an unknown zone and disables the active x settings. Accessing the same file via \\servername\sharename\filename and IE8 then...
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    Missing hyperlinks with Adobe 7 Pro

    Hi, We are having a problem with missing hyperlinks when converting some word documents to pdf. We are using acrobat 7.1.0 Pro and Office 2003 Pro. Not all hyperlinks are converted in the pdf. The TOC is fine but after that the links do not work. I have downgraded a workstation back to adobe...
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    how to restore public folders via RSG?

    Hi, I'm running exchange 2007 with latest service packs, i back it up via Backup Exec 2010 and an exchange agent. I have worked out restoring individual user mailboxes to a Recovery Storage Group and that all works well. Today i'm trying to restore the Second Storage Group - i.e. Public Folders...
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    Trying to run esxcfg-firewall via puTTY.

    Hi, this question is really just asking for an explanation as i've searched via google and still don't understand.... Have been trying to run the command 'esxcfg-firewall -q'. I puTTy'd into my ESX server as a user, did the 'su' command to change to root, tried to run 'esxcfg-firewall -q' -...
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    Anti-Virus on an Oracle server?

    Hi, I've got 2 oracle 10g servers running. They are running on windows 2003 servers and they've been ok for last few years. I come from windows background so i installed Anti-Virus on the servers as a default part of the build even before i installed Oracle. A consultant has flown over from one...
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    Cannot extract exe's from zip files?

    Hi, i've got a small network - all windows 2003 servers. Today i've downloaded a zip file for an application that needs to be installed on 2 of my servers. On one server this job took about 30 seconds - extracted the files, ran setup.exe. Job done :-) On the other server i'm still wondering how...

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