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133 days ago
It’s been a heck of a blogging run here on this spaces site. I started this three years ago with a simple name and no real idea what type of stuff I would end up blogging on – Technical Theories Ramblings and Rants (T2R2). Over these three years I have had the distinct pleasure of knowing that pages on this site have been viewed more than a quarter of a million times by people in more than 60 countries spanning the globe. I have had some great feedback on the stuff I have written (and a few ruffled feathers) and I hope it has provided answers to some of the techno-trivia out there which is a daily part of our IT lives. So for those of you who have read this blog – thank you! I hope that this has provided some good information and maybe a couple of chuckles. But all good things must come to an end, or in this case just to a transition to something bigger and better. Effective today, T2R2 will continue but it will be on a new home as I will be joining with the incredible crew at ...
136 days ago
Recently I logged into my RMS server and had a somewhat unpleasant surprise. While I am sure that I had done the production activation on this server I noticed in the event logs and on the properties of my system that Windows was not activated yet. I still had three days left to activate my server and while it did not represent an issue to activate it I realized that if this one had not yet been activated what other servers in my environment had not! For background, Windows Server 2008 Product activation gives you a 60 day grace period to activate the system. After the 60 days it goes into a notification critical state where you can still log on and the system performs normally however the background goes to black (which I make as my default configuration regardless so that classifies under ironic) and only critical updates are applied (also my default configuration so also ironic). For additional background, see ...
151 days ago
Today we received a couple of alerts from the Active Directory 2008 management pack for a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 domain controller. They caught my eye because they did not have alert descriptions and in one case there was no Alert name. Normally I would post these as ReSearch This kb articles (see http://www.systemcentercentral.com/default.aspx?tabid=39&search=KB) but generally there are three required pieces of information: The Alert , the Issue , and the Resolution. In both cases there was no alert description and in one of these cases we do not have alert text. Both of these alerts occurred at the same time on the same domain controller: Alert : Overall Essential Services state Issue : The Overall Essential Services state monitor portion of the Active Directory Domain Controller Server 2008 Computer role identified an alert. No additional knowledge was available. Resolution : Speaking with the technician we found out the he had performed an ...
151 days ago
I ran my first upgrade today to from Windows Server 2008 SP1 to Windows Server 2008 SP2. The installation was for a domain controller running in a virtual (Hyper-V) and it ran for approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. At this point it appears to be working without issues. A quick video of the upgrade (less than a minute) is attached to this blog entry to give an idea what the process looks like.
160 days ago
Alert: IIS Discovery Probe Module Failed Execution Issue: Non-recurring failure across multiple servers in the environment. Discussed here at http://www.eggheadcafe.com/conversation.aspx?messageid=32202280&threadid=31903288 with no resolution. This is occurring in IIS MP version 6.0.6539.0. We have approximately 115 IIS servers with 85 alerts of this type occurring weekly. Digging into these led to a list of object discoveries specific to the IIS management packs. These included multiple discovery rules set to run every 3600 seconds (hourly). Including: IIS 2000: Windows Internet Information Services Web Sites 0-25 Discovery Rule Windows Internet Information Services Web Sites 26-50 Discovery Rule Windows Internet Information Services Web Sites 51-75 Discovery Rule Windows Internet Information Services Web Sites 76-100 Discovery Rule IIS 2003: Windows Internet Information Services Application Pools 0-25 Discovery Rule Windows Internet ...
