Category: General Info

The ordinal 120 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll.

We have 5 Citrix Terminal Servers that are configured “identically”.  After installing IE8 on two of them, the following started showing up:     After a bunch of searching, I saw a few people have gotten this, but no one had a solution, or at least I couldn’t find it.  I did see a similar… Continue reading The ordinal 120 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll.

TechNet wiki…

So a TechNet wiki is coming, as stated by Keith Combs here: three big things we focus on for all TechNet scenarios are Content, Discoverability, and Participation. We really want to invite participation from everyone and what better way to combine that with discovery and content than to use Wiki technology? Later this year TechNet and… Continue reading TechNet wiki…

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7

As a follow up to my earlier post about the Remote server Administration Tools for the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), I thought I would post a link to the RTM version.  It took a bit to find it.  A search on Microsoft’s site wasn’t helpful to me.  I finally found a reference on Ben’s… Continue reading Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7

Temporary Registry Profiles – Finally an answer

We have been having issues at work for a while where a user gets “cannot load the locally stored profile” and a temporary profile is created.  It gets to be quite frustrating for the users because each time they log in they lose any settings that they have made.  Apparently, we arent’ the only company… Continue reading Temporary Registry Profiles – Finally an answer

Hyper-V and DPM – Some issues that you may see

We have several (15 or so) Hyper-V hosts running a number (126 or so) guests.  We use DPM to backup our servers, but only a few of our VMs are backed up at the host level.  Most are backed up as regular clients.  I have been having trouble with a couple of the ones that… Continue reading Hyper-V and DPM – Some issues that you may see

It’s all in the Clouds…

Recently I attended the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas.  One of the big pushes that is on the minds of everyone these days, is the Cloud Computing concept.  As a Systems Engineer, the thought is that I should be afraid of this push, because it moves the processing out of the datacenter and into… Continue reading It’s all in the Clouds…

Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution

If you see this: ‘VMName’ failed to initialize. Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0x80004005). Could not find a usable certificate. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0x80004005). Then this could be your answer: Symptoms and resolution: § You may be unable to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or… Continue reading Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution