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How can I get a my servers Network Adapter(s) driver filename and version info using Powershell?
I’d like to be able to pull the same info I can see in Driver File Details from Powershell. I’ve seen some ways people have been pulling this info from Win32_PNPSignedDriver Get-WMIObject Win32_PnPSignedDriver |where {$_.Devicename -like "*82567LM-3 Gigabit Read More...
The security Permissions aren’t the same when I use Robocopy /copyall or robocopy /Sec.
I see this when using Robocopy.exe version XP027 and trying to copy inherited permissions. In the XP026 and earlier versions inherited permissions from the source would be copied to the destination. This is no longer the case in XP027. Why Does this Happen? Read More...
I’m an administrator on my Vista\Server2008 computer but I can’t view any disk space information.
I’ve found another case where having UAC enabled will have some interesting results on what an administrator can do. Symptoms; UAC in enabled on my WS2008 machine. I am in the local administrators group but the local drive doesn’t have any security permissions Read More...
Debugging a fatal system error 0xC000021A (STATUS_SYSTEM_PROCESS_TERMINATED) with Verification of a known DLL failed X64_0xc000021a_c000012f
I had a system that would try to boot into the Operating system then power itself off. In safe mode I could see it load a bunch of drivers then it would just hang on one dll ( WLDAP32.dll) . I wanted to verify that the dll I saw safe mode hang on was Read More...
I renamed my WS2008 Domain Controllers and now replication is not working.
Symptoms; When I saw this replication was totally failing to some tail sites. Upon further investigation I noticed that when I forced a replication between two servers they didn’t update even though the replication was successful. The successful replication Read More...
Why does my cluster resource keep timing out when I try to bring it online?
I saw this on a W2k3SP2 cluster that couldn’t bring a 2TB drive online after it was failed over. The problem I was running into was that the resource was timing out before it was fully brought online. Without enough time for the resource to come online Read More...
Why doesn’t Microsoft Network Load Balancing spread traffic evenly across its cluster members?
The short answer: It isn’t designed to, Network Load Balancing is a cool name but it doesn’t accurately describe what it does. The longer answer: NLB doesn’t check for load on servers to determine how to forward traffic from the Virtual IP (VIP). It’s Read More...
Vista or Server2008 stuck at a black screen and the desktop never renders.
I’ve seen this a few times now and there isn’t any good documentation that I’ve found that helps resolve or explain this. This occurs when the Administrator doesn’t have user privileges so it is being denied access when it tries to launch explorer.exe Read More...
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