Tried to migrate a physical Windows 2003 server into a VMware VM using vCenter Converter tonight and was giving me the following error at about 91% both times I tried… “FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s).Error code:2147549183 (0x8000FFFF)” Turned out to be caused by a corrupt registry key on the source server, which can be manually fixed however Microsoft have handy a fix-it app that solved the problem for me straight away… Download and run it from here… Hope t…
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If you get the following message when trying to download an .iso disc image from IIS 7/7.5… 404 – File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. You just need to add the MIMI type. To do this, open IIS Manager, select the server on the left, open MIME Types… Then on the top right click Add > File name extension: .iso MIME Type: application/octet-stream The file should now download pr…
Windows 8 Metro Storage Helper I’m currently coding a Windows 8 Metro app version of a Windows Phone 7.5 Mango app I previously made. There are quite a few differences in the code and one of the first stumbling blocks I hit was the lack of Isolated Storage in WinRT. There are some ways of making shared libraries compatible, but I wanted to learn the new ways of doing things. One of the things I need to do is store POCOs to storage for caching and while having a quick search to see if someone…