Archive for the ‘Windows’ CategoryWindows iSCSI dynamic disk does not reconnect after rebootThursday, October 16th, 2008It's not possible; Dynamic disks (applies to Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003): Configuring volumes on iSCSI disks as Dynamic disk volumes using the Microsoft software iSCSI initiator is not currently supported. It has been observed that timing issues may prevent dynamic disk volumes on iSCSI disks from being reactivated ... Creating the show desktop icon in WindowsTuesday, October 7th, 2008Active Desktop includes a feature that allows one to minimize all active Windows, so one can easily access the icons on the desktop. The feature is called "Show Desktop" and is accessed through an icon on the Quicklaunch bar. If the icon "Show Desktop" is missing in your Quicklaunch bar, then ... VMware guest clock runs ahead or behindWednesday, October 1st, 2008In our case occured on VMware server running on a dual Xeon Windows 2003 server (x64) with an i386 CentOS 5 guest. Changes on guest; In /etc/grub.conf add "clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic" to kernel line; kernel /vmlinuz.... clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic Changes on host; Edit VMX file of guest and add (or ... Sharepoint install: 32 bit emulation mode in IISWednesday, September 24th, 2008If you are running the Microsoft Sharepoint Services installer on a x64 machine with Microsoft Windows 64 bit installed and you get an error like this: IIS is running in 32-bit emulation mode, please fix this error to continue'. You must run the following script from the command line: CScript "%SystemDrive%\InetPub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs" set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 ... How to access the embedded database used by sharepointWednesday, September 24th, 2008Sharepoint likes to use the Embedded version of SQL Server when you choose a stand-alone install of WSS. Normally, this is not an issue but there are times when you need to get into that database. Unfortunately, getting into that database is considerably more difficult than you might expect. ... Windows Server 2003 R2 AD not compatibleWednesday, September 24th, 2008I had to migrate a Windows 2003 SBS (32 bit) to Windows 2003 R2 standard (64 bit). At the moment that I had to add a second Domain Controller to the company's domain it went wrong. I couldn't do the 'dcpromo' because The Active Directory was not compatible. You need to do the ... Windows firewallMonday, September 15th, 2008There are different ways to configure firewalling on Windows servers: - Build in Windows Firewall - TCP/IP filtering - Routing and remote access. If you are using the windows Firewall you can easy manage the Firewall settings via Conrtrol Panel > Windows Firewall or via the properties of your network. You can also configure the ... Legal Notice pop-up on windowsThursday, September 4th, 2008If you want to pop up a message box when your computer starts and before the logon screen on Win9X or WinNT, then you can use this trick. Run the Registry Editor using Start->Run and then type "regedit" and Enter. You will come up with ... Retrieve your Dell Service tagTuesday, August 26th, 2008If you need to know your Dell Service Tag, but you don't want to drive to the server room, you can do it from the command line. First install dmidecode : # yum install dmidecode Then just run following command: # dmidecode | more Example: Handle 0x0100 DMI type 1, 25 bytes. System Information ... What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running?Monday, August 25th, 2008You are no doubt reading this article because you are wondering why on earth there are nearly a dozen processes running with the name svchost.exe. You can't kill them, and you don't remember starting them… so what are they? So What Is It? According to Microsoft: ... |
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