Zune MarketPlace Video content pricing

This is a repost of my experience previously left on the Zune forums:  http://forums.zune.net/546768/ShowPost.aspx#546768 I would encourage Microsoft to review the pricing of their content when compared to the market. For example, I looked at Fringe Season 1. I found the following pricing on the Zune Markeplace, Amazon and Best Buy.  Zune MarketPlace           Amazon Best [...]

Zune Marketplace – Failed Download, Unable to Purchase Song

This is a repost of my experience previously left on the Zune forums:  http://forums.zune.net/546428/ShowPost.aspx#546428 I have a song that I tried to purchase with Zune Pass credits on 10.25.09 that failed to download to my collection.  It shows up in my purchase history and now I’m unable to download the song again.  Yes, I used up [...]

Zune Marketplace DRM Problems

After reading about others having problems with their DRM content purchased from the Zune Marketplace after upgrading their PC, I thought I would re-post my experience previously left on the Zune forums. http://forums.zune.net/511136/ShowPost.aspx 09-07-2009, 9:24 PM This item is no longer available at Zune Marketplace – Error Code: C00D27E1 I just reformatted my PC and [...]

DFSR Event ID:5014 Error:1726

For the last couple of months, I’ve been trying to successfully replicate 100GB of data using Windows Server 2008 DFSR from our corporate office site to our branch site for disaster recovery purposes.   The initial replication will work for a while and then I get the following 5014 error repeatedly in the event log. Restarting [...]

Hyper-V RC1 Hypervisor Failed to Start

There is a known problem in Hyper-V RC1 in which after you upgrade a perfectly working RC0 server the Hypervisor will not start. You will see the following error in the event log: Source: Hyper-V Hypervisor Event ID: 48 “Hyper-V launch failed; Processor 0×4 does not provide the features necessary to run Hyper-V (leaf 0×80000008, [...]

Digital Cable Tuner Resources

CableCARD™ and Digital Cable FAQ Digital Cable Tuner Setup for Windows Media Center in Windows Vista – A Set-by-Step Guide for Professional Technicians (pdf) Dell XPS Desktop Forum

XPS 420 & Radeon ATI HD2600 XT – Choppy DVD Playback

I got my XPS 420, took an image of HDD (32 bit OEM OS) and installed Vista Ultimate x64, downloaded and installed all the drivers from support.dell.com and then also updated newer drivers for the video and network cards and updated the firmware on the ATI Digital Cable Tuner.   Everything that I’ve tested so far [...]

Windows Server 2008 DCPROMO

During DCPROMO in Windows Server 2008, If you select the option to install DNS, you might receive a message that indicates that a DNS delegation for the DNS server could not be created and that you should manually create a DNS delegation to the DNS server to ensure reliable name resolution. If you are installing [...]

Error message when you run the “Adprep /rodcprep” command in Windows Server 2008

“Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Subdomain,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” Read: Error message when you run the “Adprep /rodcprep” command in Windows Server 2008: “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Contoso,DC=com” Note: I could not get [...]

DFSRDIAG (Distributed File System Replication Diag)

I’ve recently been tweaking my data replication schemes.  We’ve got multiple servers spread out all over and seems like we replicate date all over the place.   My most recent brilliant idea was to replicate our offline virtual machine images and software installation ISO files to all of our Hyper-V servers.  In working through some staging [...]

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