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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 it
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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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This is an FYI post so others on the intertubes can find the answer quickly. If you get this error: Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 4.11.2008 07:20:41 Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer:
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So i know there are tools out there to do this but figured some would be interested on how to do this real quick with stuff that's already in the OS. 1) Turn off echos to make the out put clean (don’t forget to turn it back on when its done via
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Just saw this being discussed internally and thought that it was quite useful to a lot of you out there so I thought I'd share. The true boolean to grp.GetMembers tells it to recursively get the nested group members too. I tested this out
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The Microsoft IPsec Diagnostic Tool is available for Windows Server 2008, for Windows Vista, for Windows Server 2003, and for Windows XP This should help you out when you have those weird "network" issues going on with some clients where IPSEC
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All of these are for kernel mode, these are just commands I use often that don't troubleshoot a particular problem, but are helpful in getting a general picture of the system. If you have a specific issue you're trying to understand, drop a note and I'll
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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=en
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Those who are just getting into scripting might be wondering how to query info from remote machines using WMI and how to find useful information to query. When I started out trying to learn some of the WMI syntax and gathering info,
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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 through
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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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System Page Table Entry (PTE) issues are some of the top support issues for servers that run large server applications and have a relatively large amount of Random Access Memory (RAM). PTEs are structures used to track pages of RAM, similar to the way
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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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