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Message labs or proxy server blocks Office 2007 or Office 2010 activation service.

I had the following issue this morning where some clients using message labs as proxy server were unable to activate their newly installed Office 2010 suite.

The first that came to my mind was to add “*.microsoft.*” address in the safe list in the message labs administration section. But, I wanted to the [...]

Veritas backup exec 9.1 error job cancelled or timed out: SBS First strorage group error reading file data

I came across this problem where good old Veritas backup exec 9.1 installed on SBS 2003 server started giving me error. Error is the backup is stuck every night when trying to backup the First storage group. Since, the backup is time limited is forcibly stops the job saying job timed out.

My [...]

Unable to connect remote sql server instance

I have came across this error quiet a few times after installing SQL server 2005 or SQL server 2008. so, to resolve the issue and access SQL server remote instance through Mgmt Studio, make sure you have performed the following steps.

Port TCP 1433 and UDP 1434 (SQL browser service port) are open in OS [...]