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Unable to move my cluster group from node A to Node B and cluster.log analysis
I have a 2 node MSCS quorum based cluster and was unable to move my cluster group from node 17 to...
Author: ganand Date: 03/25/2009
How to stop Chkdsk from running
I have seen so many customer requesting how to stop the chkdsk from checking the drive during boot...
Author: ganand Date: 03/17/2009
Start up for some one who is not familiar with Read only domain controller RODC
What ===== RODC is a new feature unleashed with windows server 2008. Read-only Domain Controllers...
Author: ganand Date: 04/26/2008
You will not get the option to reset Pin in bitlocker when using TPM+PIN+StartupKey protectors in vista sp1
Aah i dont write blogs in such a nice format but this was written for an another document and i am...
Author: ganand Date: 04/26/2008
What is this Raw File System
Sometimes a damaged volume may look like it lost its file system and CHKDSK tool will complain that...
Author: ganand Date: 02/22/2008
NTFS Time Stamps --file created in 1601, modified in 1801 and accessed in 2008!!
Technorati Tags: NTFS So many times we have seen Server Admins asking how to figure out whether...
Author: ganand Date: 02/19/2008
What happens and parameters passed when a new process is created
Via this blog I have just tried to show What exactly happens when a new process is created and what...
Author: ganand Date: 02/15/2008
Few public links giving an insight on Windows Internal Architecture.
A few favorite links of mine on Windows Architecture..Hope you will like reading them.....
Author: ganand Date: 01/26/2008
Internal structures of the Windows Registry
One of the best public document which talks about Registry internals is by Mark Russinovich and I...
Author: ganand Date: 01/05/2008
Windows Vista Address Space Load Randomization - The way vista loads DLL's
Lets talk about what is a Dll and why we need it first ... dynamic-link library (DLL) is shared code...
Author: ganand Date: 01/04/2008
How to isolate a service in its own scvhost.exe
This is a very good public link to read about service control manager internals and how to manage...
Author: ganand Date: 12/23/2007
How do transition from user mode to kernel mode takes place
NTDLL is used to call into the operating system, which is (generally) in the address range...
Author: ganand Date: 12/23/2007
Dumping out notepad.exe and ntdll.dll
I tried to dump out the headers and data sections of notepad.exe and ntdll.dll to figure out what...
Author: ganand Date: 12/23/2007
What changed on Disk when I Enabled Bitlocker and configured bitlocker protected data partitions
I was curious to see what changes Bitlocker make on my raw disk, So i picked my dskprobe and had a...
Author: ganand Date: 10/23/2007
Configuring bitlocker
I thought of giving everyone feel of how easy it is to configure bitlocker on your machine. I picked...
Author: ganand Date: 10/16/2007
Group Policies regarding Bitlocker and TPM
Last time we talked about what TPM is and how it works and also about clean boot of pcr’s. This time...
Author: ganand Date: 10/08/2007
Starter for someone who is not familiar with bitlocker part III
Last time we talked about TPM and what exactly it is. This time I will continue from where I left...
Author: ganand Date: 10/03/2007
Behavior of Bit locker when windows vista based computer resumes from sleep mode
Neither Bitlocker drive encyption feature nor TPM chip provide protection against online attacks...
Author: ganand Date: 10/01/2007
Starter for someone who is not familiar with bitlocker part II
Last time i gave a lay man's overview about bit locker and i stopped at the point why we need a TPM...
Author: ganand Date: 09/28/2007
Starter for someone who is not familiar with bitlocker
This is my first entry for Digging in blog of mine. I thought of giving a brief description of...
Author: ganand Date: 09/27/2007