Error message: Error(110) while running C:\WINDOWS\system32\LDIFde.exe The system cannot find the file specified.(0×80070002)

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Pausing your AV software will likely allow the command to complete successfully.  If it isn’t your AV there is something else [...]]]> When running ADPrep on Server 2003 from Server 2008 media you may get this error:

Error message: Error(110) while running C:\WINDOWS\system32\LDIFde.exe The system cannot find the file specified.(0×80070002)

<error message has been trimmed>

Pausing your AV software will likely allow the command to complete successfully.  If it isn’t your AV there is something else that has locked one of the files ADPrep is using…

ADPrep on 2008 R2 media is supposed to not suffer from this issue, but I haven’t tested this.

Cuddling with him on the bed.

Going for runs, the 3 of us.

Rough housing with him in the living room until my wife got annoyed.

When Gus would come out of the bedroom at 1am and look at me saying “why aren’t you in bed already?”, [...]]]> Throwing the ball and frisbee with him.

Cuddling with him on the bed.

Going for runs, the 3 of us.

Rough housing with him in the living room until my wife got annoyed.

When Gus would come out of the bedroom at 1am and look at me saying “why aren’t you in bed already?”, then going back to bed.

The way Gus would put a toy up on the sofa then wait for one of us to throw it, again and again and again…

The way Gus would put a toy on the ground when I was at the table or in the kitchen then stare at it, then look at me, then stare at it, then look at me…

The jingle of Gus’s collar as he walked.

The way he would wiggle when he was happy to see us.

Coming home and seeing him excited to see us, even if he was in his kennel.

The way he would wait outside the bathroom for my wife.

When he would be a puppy towel.

When he would be my wife’s kitchen shadow.

Watching him launch himself off the sofa when he was little.

Having to fish him out from under the bed, before he got too big.

Cuddling with him on the sofa at lunch time.

His great big puppy kisses.

The way he would go into his kennel when it was time, even though he didn’t really like it.

How cute he looked and how happy he was too see us, when we came home to find the carpet torn back to the cement.

Watching him organize blankets or pillows into a bed…

Watching him lay under the clothes rack, like it was a fort.

Seeing the laundry hamper after he had gotten into it…

His shark puppy routine.

Watching him just trotting along beside me on a run or when we went roller blading.

His smile when he was panting.

How he always wanted to say hi to the birdies.

How even thought he was happy to see us, he still didn’t want to leave my in-law’s house when we went to pick him up.

The way he would hug my wife when she would pick him up, with one paw on each shoulder.

His crazy puppy routine.

The way he would still have Cool Whip on his nose and whiskers after he cleaned one of our bowls.

Watching him systematically destroy a toy or rawhide.

Watching him jump over the baby gate at my Mom’s, the same one that held back the full grown Golden Retriever.

Watching him pee on the floor, right beside his training pads when we were paper training him…

Watching him do his best blood hound impression and sniff everything on our walks.

The way he would stretch out on the floor, with his legs spread out like a frog.

Watching him chase ice cubes across the floor and batting at them like a cat.

Watching Gus run in the sand, one of his favourite things.

His Elvis impression, when his lip would get caught on one of his teeth.

He always knew which booths we were in when we went tanning, and would wait outside them for us.

Watching him walk the first few steps after we wrapped his foot in a wash cloth after he cut his paw when we were on a run.

It looked to me like he was shaking and his one eye was twitching very badly.  I took him to the vet as soon as I noticed.  The vet thought it might be marijuana toxicity or a neurological issue, took some blood to test, administered Valium and  sent us home [...]]]> Wednesday afternoon my puppy started to have seizures.

It looked to me like he was shaking and his one eye was twitching very badly.  I took him to the vet as soon as I noticed.  The vet thought it might be marijuana toxicity or a neurological issue, took some blood to test, administered Valium and  sent us home with some more Valium and charcoal.

In the evening his tremors got worse, eventually he couldn’t stand up and his breathing was laboured and irregular.  My wife and I took him to the nearby emergency clinic, they kept him over night, gave him anti-seizure meds and antibiotics.  The ER thought it might be an ear infection because of the way he was holding his head, tilted to the one side.

The next morning we called the clinic to see how he was doing, they said to call back in the afternoon.  The clinic called my wife an hour and a half later saying that the he wasn’t responding to the antibiotics and that we needed to take him to see a neurological specialist.  We went to pick him up and the clinic had increased his dosage of anti-seizure meds, because that was all they could do for him.

The neurologist examined him and said it would take further testing to figure out what it was.  We discussed in detail what the tests were for and what the likely outcomes were.  The likely outcome of the tests would be finding out that our poor little puppy had something terminal.

While we were at the specialist’s Gus’s seizures got worse.

We couldn’t see our poor little guy suffer any longer and putting him through 4 days of testing watching him get worse was not something we could do.

Our little Gus went to sleep Thursday afternoon.

He will always be missed.

You should be good to go.

I figured out that if I gave the app users local admin rights they would be able to launch the programs.

After I removed the local admin rights they were still able to run the programs.

It seems that waiting until after [...]]]> Had an issue trying to get PW and SW working through Citrix.

I figured out that if I gave the app users local admin rights they would be able to launch the programs.

After I removed the local admin rights they were still able to run the programs.

It seems that waiting until after local admin rights have been removed is the time to register the application.

Add rel=”me” to the end of an <a href> tag.

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I had issues with the comments on line 29 wrapping, turn off Word Wrap in notepad and double check the formatting before you save.

The script is written in VB, in case you don’t recognize it.  I had to ask around…

We use Citrix reports to generate a list of logged in users by CPU time, I export that to CSV then start sorting.

The data is organized into 6 columns, the first column is the username, the second is the CPU time [...]]]> I’ve been working on updating some reporting I do for a client.

We use Citrix reports to generate a list of logged in users by CPU time, I export that to CSV then start sorting.

The data is organized into 6 columns, the first column is the username, the second is the CPU time they used, this is all I get from Citrix.  I then add a third column which uses an IF statement to note if they used CPU time, the fourth column uses a MATCH statement to isolate users with a particular prefix in their username, the fifth column is the same as the fourth, but looks for a different prefix, the sixth column uses an IF statement to count how many users were logged in and have either of the two specific prefixes I am looking for in columns four and five.

Here is what the formulas look like:

=IF(B2>0,1,0)
[checks to see if user had CPU time]

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(“domain\prefix*”,A2,0)),0,1)
[checks to see if the user has either prefix I'm looking for, the * is a wildcard, so it will return true when there is a prefix match]

=IF((AND(C2=1,((OR(D2=1,E2=1))))),1,0)
[checks to make sure user was logged in and a has either prefix]

If I’m feeling extra creative I might figure out how to combine the prefix checks into the last IF statement.

Sources: Personal-Computer-Tutor, PC Mag

A lot of possible causes for this issue…

Turns out all that the server needed was the DFS service to be restarted.

It is so easy, do it first.

You can’t move with purpose if you are constantly scanning the horizon, you will find yourself wandering.

Balancing the micro and macro is the only way to do the right things that will move you in the right [...]]]> You don’t get very far by only looking at the ground directly in front of you.

You can’t move with purpose if you are constantly scanning the horizon, you will find yourself wandering.

Balancing the micro and macro is the only way to do the right things that will move you in the right direction.

The trick is finding that balance.  And keeping it for a long enough time to get where you want to go.

A hybrid of GTD and Stephen Covey’s Important/Unimportant-Urgent/Non-Urgent grid seems to be the best solution to me.