The punchline of this meme—“When light bulbs burn out, they stop working”—may be funny, but it hits a little too close to home for those of us in the IT industry. It reflects a painful truth that many have accepted as the norm: long hours, constant firefighting, and inevitable burnout. This mindset has become almost… Read More »
SYMPTOMS: Can’t install Exchange service packs (PrepareAD / PrepareSchema do not run properly) Setup encountered a problem while validating the state of Active Directory: Setup could not retrieve the schema master domain controller information from Active Directory. Exchange database will not mount / dismounted Errors in Event Log: 9519 – The following error occurred while… Read More »
SYMPTOMS: I’ve been troubleshooting a problem heavily for the past three days and on and off for several years now involving Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2011 product. Here are the symptoms: RAM utilization is excessive, remaining at 99-100% constantly, primarily rising after boot in a few weeks, and in some extreme cases, within an hour of… Read More »