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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 keys to set: reg add "
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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 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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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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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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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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Currently we are running Win2k3 SP1, R2, SP2, Win2k8 Beta3, RC0, RC1, and RTM Escrow idomain controllers in production... Since we're running some downlevel servers in the environment and I was interested in what is supported to be upgraded to Windows
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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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