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Outlook Web App Didn't Initialise

Feb 21, 2013 · 1 min read · Outlook ·

Outlook Web App didn’t initialize. If the problem continues, please contact your helpdesk. Couldn’t find a base theme (folder name=base) This error is caused, when the base theme for the OWA is missing in \ClientAccess\Owa\14.1.287.0\themes. You solve this issue by running the following command in a Exchange Managment …

FQDN of a Windows Server in Domain using batch / cmd script

Apr 30, 2012 · 1 min read · Windows Script ·

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Quick one for you (and there’s probably easier ways of doing this)…only took ten minutes to work it out tho. I needed to get the Fully Qualified Domain Name of a computer on the network into an environment variable in a batch script. Here’s the code snippet: 1@ECHO OFF 2 3FOR /f "tokens=2,* delims= " %%a in …

Unattended Wse Install

Mar 2, 2012 · 1 min read · scripting installs ·

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I’ve been on a project where a number of prerequisites needed scripting and we’re provided in the MSI format. This is the Microsoft Installer format. There are a number of switches you can use which can streamline an application install. Problem was that the way our installing system operates here, the execution …

Secure HDCP Link Not Found on XBOX 360

Mar 1, 2009 · 2 min read · Consoles Family HDMI ·

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I’m a fan of the XBox 360, the price these days for a combined DVD, Media center Extender and games console is so low its hard not to be, however every once in a while an issue that comes up that isn’t necessarily easily explained out there in Cyberspace. This morning, my sons and I wanted to resume a DVD that we we’re …

Oracle Oui Silent Installs

Oct 7, 2008 · 4 min read · Oracle Scripting ·

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I’ve been working on this all week and I finally made a breakthrough for this today. The task at hand was to automate the install of the Oracle Data Access Components for OLE DB for 10g. At my work we prefer to script everything so if anyone gets knocked down by a bus, someone else should be able to just run the script …