Cliff Hobbs is a UK-based systems management consultant who specialises in the various systems management tools covered by his website FAQShop.com such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Systems Management Server (SMS).Having worked with SMS since 1998 Cliff has gained extensive experience of designing, deploying, and supporting large enterprise-wide systems management solutions on behalf of companies such as EDS, 1E and Getronics.In recognition of his contribution to the Systems Management community Microsoft awarded Cliff the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for SMS in January 2004 which has been re-awarded in all subsequent years.Having grown up with the PC from the days of the IBM AT and PC-DOS 3.3, he has an extensive knowledge of several operating systems and applications gained through his present and past employment with companies such as EDS, Du Pont, Abbey National and Getronics, amongst others.The prime goal of FAQShop.com is to help people use Systems Management technology to make their lives easier - not for technology to control their lives which is reflected in this site's mission statement:
'Ensuring you get the best of IT'.
Internet Explorer 6.0
982892 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Developing IE Extensions
Internet Information Services 6.0
982884 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Programmatic administration of Internet Information Services (IIS)
982889 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Single Sign-On Solution in ISAPI API
Outlook 2007
980051 Changing the start time of a recurring meeting series in Exchange Server 2007 by using OWA does not remove exceptions
978965 "0x80004005" or "0x80040102" error message when you access a mailbox on an Exchange Server 2010 server by using a MAPI client
SQL Server 2000
982870 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Diagnosing and Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance Problems
982899 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Forms Based Authentication in Reporting Service
SQL Server 2005
983332 You cannot open a Business Intelligence project after you upgrade the project to the format that is used by Visual Studio 2010
982895 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Analysis SQL Transactional Replication High Latency
982900 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SQL Merge Replication Non-Convergence
System Center Operations Manager 2007
982910 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Monitoring agents in an untrusted domain or workgroup using Operations Manager 2007
Windows Internet Explorer 7
982890 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Internet Explorer (Developer) Memory Usage
982891 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Internet Explorer Performance
982888 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - IEAK 7 and 8 Configuration & Deployment
982879 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Internet Explorer 7 and 8 Group Policy Deployment
982894 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Internet Explorer Component Deployment
Windows Live Mail
983320 You cannot input Japanese characters in the e-mail message body in Windows Live Mail
Windows Server 2003 R2
981156 RemoteApp applications are displayed as black windows when you restart the applications in a Remote desktop connection in Windows Server 2008 R2
202340 Disk Management gives a "Unspecified Error" with "Unable to connect to Logical Disk Management Service"
982909 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Windows Server 2003 Server Cluster Disaster Recovery Planning
Windows Server 2008
980864 Some IPsec packets are dropped unexpectedly on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
980080 Files may be corrupted when a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 enters the sleep mode or the hibernate mode
979743 You cannot use an MPIO storage device after a failover operation in Windows Server 2008
981206 A handle leak occurs in the BITS service when the service switches between user accounts to create jobs in Windows Server 2008
982908 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster Disaster Recovery Planning
981791 "STOP: 0x0000001a" error message on a computer that has an Intel Westmere processor together with the Hyper-V role installed on Windows Server 2008 or on Windows Server 2008 R2
202582 UNIX clients take a long time to recover access to Clustered NFS share when resource is rapidly moved back and forth between nodes
Windows Server 2008 R2
202776 [SDP 3][06bb55c8-3207-406e-a3fc-f538867a399b] Machine Memory Dump Collector - Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
981070 "Windows can't open Add Printer" error in a 64-bit version of Win7 or of Windows Server 2008 R2
982813 How to restore IIS and clean up Active Directory when you uninstall Active Directory Federation Services 2.0
981848 "0x0000009F" Stop error message when a computer enters and resumes from hibernation in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2
974408 Availability and description of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0
981842 Computer may stop responding when it enters hibernation and then resumes from hibernation about 300 times when HID Class device is installed
982633 You cannot write with ink in an application on a laptop that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 after you close the lid and open the lid again
978309 IPv6 transition technologies, such as ISATAP, 6to4 and Teredo do not work on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
202572 Client for NFS on Windows 2008 R2 does not work properly
202580 On Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and below, if an error or veto is returned while a snapshot deletion is in progress, the snapshot deletion will still continue
981738 Hardware-accelerated video playback stops responding for more than 10 seconds in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7
981347 The "Automatic disconnect" setting in a WDS multicast transmission does not work in Windows Server 2008 R2
982872 Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Windows Server 2008 R2 RD Web Single Sign On
Windows Vista Enterprise
202564 Device Manager doesn't install device driver automatically for all devices with same hardware ID when updating driver of a specific device instance by UI ("Update Driver …")