Author: --Anand--

Being in Silicon Valley for years, I became a IT Infrastructure Geek by experience and surrounded by other Geeks everywhere. I try to help others by the solutions I found on odd occasions.

Pulse: Automatic Wallpaper changer with a twist


Pulse is an application that automatically downloads wallpapers from the web using given keyword. At this time it uses http://rewalls.com to get wallpapers. There are thousands of beautiful wallpapers with different resolutions. Pulse automatically chooses wallpapers with your screen resolution. You can make it to skip wallpapers with lower resolution or to get wallpapers with … Continue reading Pulse: Automatic Wallpaper changer with a twist →

Exchange 2010: winmail.dat attachment to internal applications


Application owner complained about emails with winmail.dat attachment that sent to an application server using Exchange server. They don’t want to receive this attachment to the application that causing issues. Well, we, Exchange Admins, know that frigging Outlook RTF messages sends this winmail.dat attachment. After all goodness of HTML formatted message, some users still loves … Continue reading Exchange 2010: winmail.dat attachment to internal applications →

SCCM: creating bootable USB disk for OS Deployment and ends with “Failed to create media (0x80070057)”


I couldn’t create a bootable USB disk to deploy an OS for some reason. As usual Microsoft error is useless, it doesn’t actually tells nothing about the actual issue. All I get was “Failed to create media” and reading logs doesn’t lead to anywhere. Strangely these two things worked the magic. 1. Disabled Antivirus (frigging … Continue reading SCCM: creating bootable USB disk for OS Deployment and ends with “Failed to create media (0x80070057)” →

SCCM: Setting wizard error: There are no task sequences available for this computer.


I was trying OS deployment on a server multiple times, it refused find assigned task sequences. I double checked target server’s SMBIOS id and MAC address in assigned server. It keep failing with this error: There are no task sequences available for this computer. If you look in the SMSTS.log you may also see the … Continue reading SCCM: Setting wizard error: There are no task sequences available for this computer. →

Windows 7: Network Card disconnect on high usage


My computer was keep disconnecting from network, I think it happens when I am doing high network usage. After I remove the network cable and reconnect, it works for while. System Event log has few of these, Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client Date: 4/19/2011 6:23:00 PM Event ID: 1014 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: … Continue reading Windows 7: Network Card disconnect on high usage →

Active Directory: Copy a Group Members to a new Group


How would you copy the members (including users and groups) of GROUP-A to another group (GROUP-B)? I figured that out today. Open Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell in Administrative Tools and type the following command. Get-ADGroupMember -Identity GROUP-A | Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -MemberOf GROUP-B Get-ADGroupMember gets all the members of GROUP-A and pipes into Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership cmdlet … Continue reading Active Directory: Copy a Group Members to a new Group →

How do you Query Certificate Authority?


I learned how to query Certificate Authority to get list of generated certificates.  I need to grab all generated machine certificates (Cert Template: Computer/Machine) to figure out which machine got the certificate. The following command list all machine certificates generated to all domain machines.  certutil -view -config "<FQDN of Certificate Authority Server>\<Certificate Authority Name>" -restrict … Continue reading How do you Query Certificate Authority? →

Bounced Meeting Request with “550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; not found”


Is invisible delegate driving you nuts? Users will get a bounced message from Exchange Server for a mysterious delegate, like one below. Subject: Undeliverable: <Subject Text>   Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:   Jane Doe The e-mail address you entered couldn't be found. Check the address and try resending the message. If … Continue reading Bounced Meeting Request with “550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; not found” →

0X80040113 – Microsoft Exchange offline address book


When I enabled web based OAB distribution, Clients aren’t downloading the Offline Address Book at all. In fact Outlook OAB sync was hanging in half way for long time. In Outlook, Sync Issues folder has this error message logged. 9:07:52 Error synchronizing folder 9:07:52                  [80040115-514-469-0] 9:07:52                  Network problems are preventing connection to Microsoft Exchange. 9:07:52                  … Continue reading 0X80040113 – Microsoft Exchange offline address book →