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This works for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. We use it during our reliability study to let the server owners know that they shouldn't reboot their boxes without a good reason. You can use it for whatever you’d like. :) The two...
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Ran into a weird issue where I was getting access denied when trying to query nodes remotely in powershell. The query was working fine against Windows 2003 cluster names and worked locally when ran on a Windows 2008 cluster node, it just didn’t...
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Had an issue where a server would not allow logon via termian services each time you attempted to logon it would return this: Soooooooooo, what to do here? First, we made sure the account existed in the directory since that's why...
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Quick Solution: Check the permissions on the root of C: and ensure that BUILTIN\Users have Read access. Long Story: 8000FFFF == E_UNEXPECTED, not very helpful… Had a client where windows update was continually failing with the error code...
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Ran into an issue this week that was strange. When you TS’d to the box it would just show a blank background and nothing else. If you tried to launch task manager it would just fail silently to the user (actually access denied in the debugger...
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Just got released yesterday: X86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ff6e897-23ce-4a36-b7fc-d52065de9960&DisplayLang=en X64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d647a60b-63fd-4ac5-9243-bd3c497d2bc5&DisplayLang...
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I've been messing around over the last week making a tool that will frisk a remote machine. It's been a fun project, a couple of items I got hung up on were if the machine was server core and if it was a VM. I mean who would knowingly TS...
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Just some random stuff as you get ready for 2k8... Getting the Classic cluster logs: Clustering in Win2k8 has undergone some major changes (for the better). One of those changes is that the cluster events are now part of the event stream so sifting...
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You've probably heard that netmon3.1 is out , but you might not know that you can easily launch a capture at the command prompt. I find this useful when we're waiting on a repro, we want a capture, but we don’t know when that's going to happen...
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Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool Project Description: Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads...
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Yes you are going to want Windows 2008 in your shop. We've been running 2k8 for over two year sin production and I'm very proud of the product we're shipping shortly. Some of you will want to start thinking about what's new in the OS, what...
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As the talk about hardware virtualization heats up from Microsoft and others you might find yourself wondering if the current hardware you're running supports it. My HP xw9300 workstation doesn't (older AMD Opterons), but it looks like my xw8400 does...
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I've ran into this a few times here and each time I stare at my screen for some time (depends on how much coffee I've had) and then remember this change. When you install Vista SP1 or install Win2k8 the console switch for MSTSC will be ignored (it's gone...
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Instead of trying to hunt down the docs you need, follow the link and download the services you will be deploying. Get them while their hot! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&DisplayLang...
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I've been seeing a lot of churn internally and externally about installing a role on a server core machine and then trying to connect to it remotely only to find that the remote server core machine won't allow you to connect. Remote Management: To allow...
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Since the boot.ini file no longer exists in Windows 2008, the way to boot into directory service repair mode has changed. You can setup the OS to boot to DSRM a couple of ways as shown below. I'd also mention that to due offline defrags and other NTDSUTIL...
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I was tracking a high CPU issue this week and needed to know when one of my servers was pegged so I could investigate. I could of used perfmon I guess but I really like to do everything I can from the command prompt. I always like it when there is a tool...
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Just got back from vacation and will start getting the posts going again. Just wanted to mention a webcast coming up from AD administration in Windows 2008 that is going to play next Thursday the 27th. If you got some time to kill, I'd make this session...
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You might find yourself debugging an issue and a thread you are interested in is paged out. Here's the steps to use to page in the stack for the kernel side and user side... Be careful when doing this on a live machine that you want to release after debugging...
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Windows System state analyzer tool Helps create snapshots of the computer—some of which include fixed drives, services, drivers and the registry. Users can create two snapshots at different points in time and compare them to view differences. A detailed...
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So you went out and got yourself a new server and it came with TOE functionality, and now you're playing Windows 2008 which has TCP offload enabled but you just want to know if its actually offloading traffic. Here's the only way I know of finding what...
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Pre-Vista it could be an issue if you didn't have debugging turned on via the boot.ini file and your system stopped booting. Well in Vista and 2k8 you can enable "Debugging mode" on boot by hitting F8 after POST. You can also turn off driver signing verification...
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I have to say I am quite pleased with this little gem in Vista. Once I started using it I haven't gone back. It's a real easy way to collaborate with another user(s) when you need them to see what you see or let them drive your session. I've used it about...
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You might find yourself looking for "net send" in Vista and wonder where it went? Before you flip out, there is a solution. Use MSG.exe C:\Windows\system32>msg /? Send a message to a user. MSG {username | sessionname | sessionid | @filename | *} [...
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Watching the TechEd keynote and Bob Muglia just announced that IIS will be supported as one of the roles for Server Core. This is great news for you web admins who want to reduce your attack surface, uptime, and footprint on an Internet facing web server...
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