Just got back from vacation and will start getting the posts going again. Just wanted to mention a webcast coming up from AD administration in Windows 2008 that is going to play next Thursday the 27th. If you got some time to kill, I’d make this session for sure. TechNet Webcast: Extending Windows Server 2008…
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Kernel stack not resident (Using .pagein)
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 as paging in certain section…
How to catch shutdowns that don’t go to debugger or cause bugchecks
Sometimes a system just goes offline or reboots and we cannot catch it in the debugger or it is not a stop error (bugcheck) so that machine just reboots from underneath you. One technique you can use is to set a breakpoint on nt!NtSetSystemPowerState. This function is the last thing called during ANY type of reboot….
Hey Admins! Windows System State Analyzer (Beta)
Windows System state analyzer toolHelps create snapshots of the computer—some of which include fixed drives, services, drivers and the registry. Users can create two snapshots at different points in time and compare them to view differences. A detailed report could be generated at the end of a compare operation. Microsoft is starting to release…
Domain not available when trying to TS onto a Windows 2003 server.
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 error message indicating that “there is not enough storage to…
How to know if TCP offload is working
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 traffic is offloaded without setting breakpoints in the debugger. First off…
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…
Hey Admins! Don’t be a hater, be a collaborator (Windows Meeting Space)
I have to say I am quite pleased with this little gem in Vista. Once I started using it I haven’t gone back. It’s a real easy way to collaborate with another user(s) when you need them to see what you see or let them drive your session. I’ve used it about a dozen times when…
Net Send in Windows Vista
You might find yourself looking for “net send” in Vista and wonder where it went? Before you flip out, there is a solution. Use MSG.exe C:\Windows\system32>msg /?Send a message to a user. MSG {username | sessionname | sessionid | @filename | *} [/SERVER:servername] [/TIME:seconds] [/V] [/W] [message] username Identifies the specified username. sessionname The…
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…