Windows Deployment Server won’t start on a fresh install

Strange thing happened: I installed WDS on a server 2008 r2 machine which had just a base install. The installation zipped through in about 15 seconds. No icon showed up in the administrative tools menu, and my event viewer had this error: An error occurred while trying to start the Windows Deployment Services server.   […]


Outlook 2011 Mac Attachment Size on Exchange 2007

So it turns out that my fancy new Outlook 2011 clients are having all sorts of problems with Outlook 2011 and attachment sizes. Outlook 2011, like Entourage uses Exchange Web Services. This is a pathway that uses Exchange 2007 and above. I am running an Exchange 2007 enviroment. By defauly the EWS service has a […]


IIS 7/Svr’08 to Apache2.2/Centos5.5

So I had this spare HP box lying around that was getting no use (was used in the past by a friend in Phoenix for MUD development- but hes moved onto .Net for his devel). I decided to re-image it and put CentOS and Apache /mySQL as a small webserver to host this charleslabri.com site. […]