Archive for the ‘Microsoft Server 2008’ Category

How to Determine a Computer’s AD Site from the Command Line

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

nltest /server:remote computer name /dsgetsite

In Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 environment, if the network environment is set to enable Delay ACK and storage is connected with iSCSI, an iScsiPrt error is output to the System Event Log when a general operation is executed

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Disable Delay ACK

Setting the Registry value TcpAckFrequency to 1
according to the technical information below will disable Delay ACK. This will
prevent the resend processing time from going to 5 frame/sec when a packet is
dropped. Using this method will not prevent packets from being dropped, but
even if they are dropped the resend processing delay will be improved, so that
time outs will not occur.

 

Subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\<Interface
GUID>
Entry: TcpAckFrequency
Value Type: REG_DWORD, number
Valid
Range: 0-255
Default: 2

Forward Event Log from several server to a central Windows 2008 server

Friday, August 19th, 2011

So what we have is a Windows 2008 server running as an event log collector which gets the event log from one or several sources. To prepare, we need to do 3 steps:
1. On the collector, on an elevated command prompt, run the following command to start the Windows Event Collector Service, change it to Automatically (Delayed Start) and enable ForwardedEvents channel if it is disabled. See this for more info.

wecutil qc

2.On each source, we need to enable WinRM:

winrm quickconfig

3.By default, the collector server can’t simply get the event logs from the sources, so you have to add the collector computer account to the local Administrators (if the source is 2008 R2, Event Log Readers group is said to be enough if you’re not collecting Security log, but see Possible Problems later in this article for more info).

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WSUS Update Client

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Q: How do I force an
AU Client to detect and download approved updates from a
WSUS Server?

A. Run this command from Command prompt at
the AU client:

wuauclt.exe /detectnow

Howto to Push local administrators into domain member computers with GPO

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Security Groups

First create a Security groups in you Active directory. I call it IT-Admins.
And add members to it. There members hive will be granted locally administrators rights on member computers.

Group Policy

Create a GPO in the OU where you member computers is located example call it LocalAdministrators.
Right click “LocalAdministrators” group Policy
2. Expand Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Groups
3. Right click on the white place and choice “Add Group…”
4. Type IT-Admins and press OK
5. Click Add under “This group is a member of:”
6. Add the “Administrators” Group.
7. Add “Remote Desktop Users”
8 OK

Please be aware of change  “Members of this group:” it will override the settings you have made in the group members, when you created the group.

List of Recent Documents not showing up in Task Bar or Start Menu

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

Error message when you try to set an IP address on a network adapter

Sunday, January 30th, 2011
  • Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER.
  • Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER.
  • Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER.
  • Click View, and then click Show Hidden Devices.
  • Expand the Network Adapters tree.
  • Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall
  • Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit

    Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

    Download

    Win7 Library Tool

    Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

    Download

    HUGE system volume Information

    Saturday, August 7th, 2010

    vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=x: /on=x: /maxsize=500MB