IT Team

The Catapult IT team is responsible for providing end-user and network/server infrastructure support across Catapult’s six offices. Their blog contains insights and lessons learned from supporting the IT needs of a world-class consulting company.

BPOS, DPM, Exchange, Group Policy, Networking, OCS, Office 2010, RMS, SharePoint, Virtualization, Windows 7

Antivirus on Hyper-V

I was on a customer call today where they had installed Kapersky anti-virus on their Hyper-V host. The server would no longer boot up. After reviewing KB 961804 I recommended that the customer add the proper exclusions or uninstall Kapersky. To complicate matters, it was not possible to uninstall the product from Add/Remove programs because the Windows Installer Service does not run in Safe Mode. Disabling the service did not help either. The final fix was to run the Kapersky removal tool