Since upgrading one of my domain controllers to Windows 2008 I had noticed a couple of errors related to VSS around the normal backup times, so I decided to investigate these. The primary message I was receiving was:
Backup started at ‘dd/mm/yyyy time’ failed with the following error code ‘2155348237′ (Enumeration of files failed.). Please rerun [...]

Recently while testing an upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2007 in a virtual test environment I got an error message. You know one of those error messages that Microsoft has a really wacky cause for. In this particular case the error message was:
“The FSMO role ownership could not be verified because its directory partition has not [...]

In Basic network troubleshooting – part 1 we examined the basic items to check when trying to troubleshoot a network issue. In this part we will expand a little further on what else you can do to determine where the problem may be.
Domain name lookup
By getting to this point in the troubleshooting you have hopefully [...]

Creating a computer network can make it really easy to share resources like files, your internet connection and printers. So what do you do when it doesn’t work?
There are a number of things you can do to test the functionality of your computers and network. Commonly there are only two scenarios that occur.
The first is [...]