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  • Windows Update fails with 8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)

    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 8000FFFF.  When looking in the Windows Update...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008

  • Staring at a blank desktop, due to Interactive missing from Users group

    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).  My user account was in the admin group...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-29-2008

  • Stuff to check out for Windows 2008

    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 Overview Microsoft Remote Server Administration...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-26-2008

  • These are a few of my favorite things... (Part 4)

    Just some more tricks/tools I use frequently... Scale-to-Fit in Perfmon If you deal a lot with perfmon you know you can have a ton of different counters in one line graph or in one bar graph and that the scale is usually 0-100 which really isn't applicable in some cases. Now you can just alt click the...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2007

  • Using TypePerf to get performance data on the command prompt.

    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 that can do data collection from the command prompt...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2007

  • Vista and 2k8: Enabling Debug mode on boot up.

    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 on x64 systems, so if you REALLY wanted...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2007

  • Are there pending operations waiting for a reboot?

    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 registry, you could check this key to determine...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2007

  • People squatting on your TS sessions?

    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 a go and see if the console session is available...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-14-2007

  • Other useful commands for those running ServerCore.

    I pointed out in my last post a reference to the step by step guide for server core but here's a few other tips for those playing with the GUI-less OS. Remote management with MMCs: Enable remote management in the firewall so you can connect to the dang thing. Actually this goes for LH in general if you...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2007

  • How to easily calculate your system availability (uptime).

    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 uptime.exe . To get the uptime of a server use...
    Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-24-2007
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