While working with server builds and configurations, one is frequently faced with a scenario where the system (as a client), needs to connect to a server at the other end and the process doesn't work. If one's lucky then an intelligent message is returned by the interface, hinting about the problem but more often than not, the [...]
When sharing a printer on a Windows 2008 R2 machine (or on Windows 7 for that matter), the operation might fail with the following error message: Printer settings could not be saved. Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d9) This could happen if the Windows Firewall service on the computer is stopped or disabled. Enabling [...]
While installing Exchange 2010, you may find setup failing part way, complaining about having no more endpoint mappers (taken from ExchangeSetupLog): [Timestamp] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706D9) [Timestamp] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800706D9): There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper. [...]