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…
Deploying a Server Core server during Beta3?
If so you’ll probably install and then be sitting at the command prompt and asking yourself: Now how do I join the domain? Along with many other questions, like how to set a static IP or deploy AD as a role on the server. Check out the Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server “Longhorn” Step-By-Step…
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: Uptime.exe…
Sync a partition from one DC to another DC when they don’t have a direct replication link. And other Repadmin fun…
REPADMIN /ADD I’ve shown you the beauty of REPADMIN /REPLSUM * /BYSRC /BYDEST /SORT:ERROR to easily find out the largest replication deltas in your forest. Lets take a look at a couple of other things you can do with repadmin, that I use quite a bit. When I was running the DCs, it was not…
What’s crashing on my vista machine?
Reliability Monitor will show you what is crashing on your machine, but how do we find the status of those crashes or capture the data ourselves to analyze? WERCON: Go to start:run and type WERCON, this will bring you into the world of crash analysis. All the crashes that happen on your system can be…
What variations of sleep does my computer support? And why did it wake up?
POWERCFG has the answer to that question and many others, like -LASTWAKE will tell you why your machine resumed form sleep or hibernate. I used to run into an issue where I’d wake up in the morning and find my laptop was at perfect temperature to cook an egg, used -LASTWAKE to find out…
Hey Admins! Let’s explore Vista together. (Part 1)
Okay so let’s look at some things in Vista from a sys-admin perspective that are good to know when your troubleshooting issues on your client’s machines. Your client could be your user base, your family, or yourself. Guided Help You’re Dad calls, he wants all the icons on the desktop to go away. You could…
Did you know there is live noninvasive debugging?
Say you want to check something out in KD but you don’t have a debugger attached, like !vm perhaps, or you want to attach to a user mode process like LSASS and dump the threads running and their current state? Well there’s is solution, obviously everything doesn’t work when its noninvasive, but you can still…
Storport update rolls a lot of changes into one package for Win2k3
KB 932755 was released recently and contains many changes to the Storport driver for better reliability and performance. If you’ve been seeing issues with Storport it might not be a bad idea to check out this article and see if your symptoms match up and if they do download the package. This is a…
Need an easy way to create a unique file name with the date?
I needed to dump winlogon and do some checks against the dump file and needed and easy way to get the computername and date in the file name and formatted so I could easily perfrom next steps. Here was the soution: C:\Debuggers>echo %computername%_%DATE:~10,4%.%DATE:~4,2%.%DATE:~7,2%SK8ORDIE_2007.04.12 Here was the script I was running to do some checks…