Situation: I have a 32bit file server running Windows Server 2003. I have a new 2008 R2 (x64) file server running on Hyper-V. Did I mention that the R2 server is on Clustered hosts?
This is all simple. Just drop the LUNs from the file server, give them to the cluster and assign them as pass [...]
I have been trying to get a P2V of a production system to use in our DR plan. I have limited opportunity to do this, because I am not allowed to impact performance during production hours for this system, and the definition of production hours is fairly broad. I have been trying for a couple [...]
We recently implemented a new optical storage system using a software package that runs on Windows. The particular machine that is used to host this application gradually had problems accessing the optical storage (which is essentially a NAS device) and would frequently pop the title message: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the required service. [...]
I use DPM to backup a few servers, in a pilot group, and I was trying to add one to a protection group. I kept getting this error every time I tried to modify the protection group to add another server:
Modify protection group: *Protection Group Name* failed:Error 360: The operation failed due to a virtual [...]
If you are trying to free up space on your system drive you may run across a very large log file in the system32\wbem\logs folder:
SYMPTOMS
When you use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and you configure it to log all events on your Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer or Microsoft Windows XP-based computer for quick analysis and [...]
I am responsible for keeping a number of machines (around 900 or so) up to date with all the latest Windows Updates. Recently I noticed that a number (around 15 or so that I am sure of) weren’t installing particular updates. I have seen this in the past, but the particular updates that wouldn’t apply weren’t of real [...]
I came across Ben Armstrong’s Blog today while doing a little searching. He has some good stuff about Microsoft Virtual Server on there and one of the things he posted on has to do with a calculator to figure out how to configure your Virtual environment. It doesn’t take much to figure out that Data Center [...]
I have had a few machines that occasionally have strange color combinations and you can’t see the logon box to view what you are typing. I finally put the right words in the search to come up with the answer:
SYMPTOMS
After you press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to log on to a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer, the logon screen turns black. Although [...]
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
OR you may just need to removed Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. I haven’t ever like it. This is just one more reason.
So, I was thinking that I would write a script to transfer some DHCP scopes from one machine to another. Well, wouldn’t you know… there is already a tool to do that, and I didn’t even have to install software, just read a little article…
http://www.geekadmin.com/?p=13
I have Windows Server 2003. So here is the pertinant part [...]
