Unexpected errors when setting up FTP site in IIS 6 on Windows 2003


One of my coworkers called me over today to look at an issue they were having setting up an FTP Site. They could only run the FTP site when the Default Website was stopped. These are the error messages that came up during troubleshooting:

Error: Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740

Error: The process cannot access the file because it is currently being used by another process.

 

 


ESX Error: unable to access file since it is locked


While attempting to attach a VMDK to a Virtual machine I encountered this message:

    Unable to access file <unspecified filename> since it is locked


Make a bootable ESX 3.5i USB stick from a Mac


As part of our migration to virtualized infrastructure we needed a temporary location to store our server images. The only server that was available was an old 32 bit IBM system with IDE drives that the ESXi installer did not want to recognize.

 


Repair a corrupted windows live movie maker project file


A little over a year ago I helped fix a corrupted Windows Live Movie Maker project file. This post describes the process I went through to isolate the problem and repair the file.