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Well, I’m working on installing Forefront Client Security at my work and after configuring all of the prerequisites, nobody could figure out why it wasn’t installing. So, I setup a test machine and started playing with it. After about an hour of searching google, it seems nobody really has an answer for why MOM fails to install… but, I just figured it out!

If you check the installation logs in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront\Client Security\Logs\MOMDB.log, you should notice there’s a line in there about an error running a query that results in an ERROR 112. The error is something like “There is not enough space on disk.” Well, in my case I had 60GB free on the disk, so this can’t be right… The database to be created was only 1GB in size.

Well, turns out the Quota on the disk was preventing the file from being created. To change the Quota (or in my case, turn it off for the duration of the install) go to Computer -> Right click on the drive you’re installing on -> Select “Properties” -> Click on the “Quota” tab. Once here you can either uncheck “Enable Quota Management” to completely disable it, or just select the radio button that reads “Do not limit disk usage”.

This should hopefully solve the problem

The last time I used Visual Studio 6… Not having a scroll wheel drove my bonkers. Well, this time around, I was lucky enough to find this:

http://joebott.com/vb6scrollwheel.htm

Just run it in the background, and it’ll take care of everything. Much love to this one <3 It’s saved me much pain.

(Also, before you go off on me as to why the hell I’m using VS6… Well, I have to for work. We have software that has to be maintained that was originally made in VS6 and I can’t get the projects to migrate to any of the *newer* Visual Studios… not that they are any better >.> )

Okay, this will be short and sweet. Here’s how you clone a VirtualBox HDD in Windows:

“C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” clonevdi “C:\Users\Andrew\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\Windows XP.vdi” “C:\Users\Andrew\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\Windows XP Clone.vdi”

and in Linux:

VBoxManage clonevdi /home/andrew/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/WindowsXP.vdi /home/andrew/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/WindowsXPClone.vdi

The basic form is “VBoxManage clonevdi sourcevdi destinationvdi”. Now you may ask, why clone a virtual machine’s hard drive? Well, if you want to back them up, this works for that. Or, if you want to duplicate that same virtual machine without having to do a second installation/activation.

Also to note, doing it this way will change the HDD’s UID, so you don’t get the error: “A hard disk with UUID {92c7da90-00f3-4bda-b338-57d24dad7f4b} or with the same properties (’/home/andrew/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/WindowsXP.vdi’) is already registered.”

Also, last thing to note… Instead of the directory “HardDrives”, yours may be “VDI”. I believe in older versions of VirtualBox it was VDI; however, these days it’s HardDrives.