I recently set up a new Mac Pro. I installed Office 2004 and copied the user's files over. Entourage started fine, and the user's Exchange mailbox seemed to open correctly.
I patched the installation of office, and Entourage started crashing shortly after launching it. I then removed Office 2004, and reinstalled it. This time, Entourage said that it could not open this version of the database. I patched 10.5.2 to 10.5.8, to no avail.
I tried various fixes other people suggested on the web. In the end, I patched 2004 with the latest patch, killed the Microsoft Database process. Since the user did not keep a PST, I simply moved the user's Entourage data in documents (In a Microsoft folder) to another location - and then reconfigured the entourage client for exchange.
Entourage opened with no issues.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Extending the System Partition in Windows 2003 Server
Before I start, I'd like to mention that the instructions in the following post (and all posts with instructions) is to be followed at your own risk; no guarantee or warranty is implied.
Someone asked how one might resize a Windows 2003 system partition (typically C:.)
There are several utilities that can do this: Acronis and Easeus are two that come to mind. However, they aren't all that cheap, especially if you need to perform this operation on multiple servers.
Window's disk manager does not work - I even tried converting the disk to dynamic. Parted couldn't extend it, either. A friend suggested gparted.
I've had some issues with gparted before, but I decided to give it a try.
- I booted the virtual machine in VMWare workstation (you didn't think I'd try this on a real machine first, did you?) and noted the partition size of C:. It was 20GB. - I then shut it down, and used vmware-vdiskmanager to extend the volume to 30GB.
- I made a snapshot of the vm
- I then booted from the gparted live CD and extended the C: drive to 27GB from there.
- I rebooted and logged in. C: was now 27GB. I even checked the disk with the windows disk tools, and there were no errors.
Note: you'll need to have free space on your disk for this to work (obviously.) Back up your C: drive/system drive before starting (you can use ntbackup - make sure you get the system state, too.)
Someone asked how one might resize a Windows 2003 system partition (typically C:.)
There are several utilities that can do this: Acronis and Easeus are two that come to mind. However, they aren't all that cheap, especially if you need to perform this operation on multiple servers.
Window's disk manager does not work - I even tried converting the disk to dynamic. Parted couldn't extend it, either. A friend suggested gparted.
I've had some issues with gparted before, but I decided to give it a try.
- I booted the virtual machine in VMWare workstation (you didn't think I'd try this on a real machine first, did you?) and noted the partition size of C:. It was 20GB. - I then shut it down, and used vmware-vdiskmanager to extend the volume to 30GB.
- I made a snapshot of the vm
- I then booted from the gparted live CD and extended the C: drive to 27GB from there.
- I rebooted and logged in. C: was now 27GB. I even checked the disk with the windows disk tools, and there were no errors.
Note: you'll need to have free space on your disk for this to work (obviously.) Back up your C: drive/system drive before starting (you can use ntbackup - make sure you get the system state, too.)
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