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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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This was one issue I worked on for quite some time a few months ago. We found that Vista clients were taking forever to download group policies from domain controllers in the regions while Vista SP1 and XP clients did not see the issue. If the local DC
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This is an FYI post for an issue we've seen on a couple of Windows 2003 SP2 servers internally. Hopefully if someone hits this in the wild they'll be able to find this post on the intertubes. Symptom: When attempting to connect from the client via RDP,
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I know people have scripted this, but this is so much easier... You could use PSExec for running other commands as well, but someone recently asked me an easy way to get the IP info so here it is. If you just want to be sitting at a command prompt on
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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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Issue came in this week where when you attempted to logon to a server it would not authenticate your request and would give you a message indicating the "domain is not available". If you tried logging on via your UPN, then it would give a slightly different
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Had a client whose machine would not load Windows Defender, each time it was opened it would eventually die on initialization: Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 8/13/2007 4:03:10 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error
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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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Sometimes you might log onto a server and wonder if there have been patches installed and thing needs to be rebooted. Well if the patch wanted to replace a file that was in use by the system (like NTFS for example) then it populates a certain key in the
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First off you can download SPA 2.0 here . I'm going to explain how to quickly use SPA, and then what type of data is returned in this post. What is SPA? So what is SPA and how can you use it? Well the official overview is: Microsoft ® Windows Server ™
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Something that administrators deal with quite a bit is trying to connect to a machine using remote desktop (mstsc) and getting our favorite message: Boy this messagewill get you angry, damn squatters. pre-Vista/LH you could always give the /console switch
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We all have managers and ALL managers love that little word called metrics, and ALL managers like to know that their service has 99.99% uptime. So how can you easily get this information off a Windows server? Well there is a simple tool out there called
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