Prevent Winmail.dat in mail attachment (Exchange 2007)
One of our clients reported today that some of his employees send messages with winmail.dat attachments. They have Exchange 2007 installed as they main mail server.
The fix is pretty easy:
Go to Microsoft Exchange Console –> Organisation Configuration –> click Hub Transport –> select Remote Domain. Go to the properties of Remote Domain, click on Message Format tab then –> Exchange rich-text format –> Never Use then go to –> Character Sets –> MIME character Set - Select none & Non-MIME character Set - select none.
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on Windows 2000 Server
I recently had and intervention on a company that reported a blue screen of death on one of their servers.
Error was:
0x0000007B
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
The server had the role of SQL Server for one of their ERP applications. Specs of so called “server” were:
Intel Core Duo CPU
2 GB RAM
2 x S-ATA HDD (RAID1)
In fact this was a normal PC, with the function of a server. The bad idea was to make on this system PC a RAID1 using that motherboard and no additional controller.
Going to BIOS I found out that settings were reset by the motherboard battery malfunction and the on-board mode for HDD controller was set to S-ATA mode and not on RAID.
After fixing the problem, their server booted flawless into the windows.
I know this seems a silly and simple idea, but hope it helps people who encounter this type or error on their systems, even if they have server or pc systems.