The purpose of this article is to explain how event forwarding works, different types of event forwarding methods and step-by-step guide for implementing them. In this part-1 of How to configure event forwarding in windows 7/2008, I will cover some basics about event forwarding, different components involved in the forwarding and their functionality. Windows 7 [...]
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By this time we as administrators could have noticed that disk cleanup utility is missing in Windows Server 2008. Disk Cleanup/Clean Manager (cleanmgr.exe) is not appeared by default in Volume Properties. Need to follow few steps as below to clean up the volume. Summary The Disk Cleanup executable file cleanmgr.exe and the associated Disk Cleanup [...]
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I came across a situation today where I had to find out the switch details to which a particular server is connected. Often we come across such kind of cases where your network administrator is unavailable to tell you which switch/port it is or data center engineer not around to help you with this information. [...]
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I came across a article well explaining disk related performance counters in Windows Servers. This gives very good information about what each counter means and their values indicates. It is worth reading..so sharing it with my blog readers. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/03/16/windows-performance-monitor-disk-counters-explained.aspx Don’t miss to read it. Happy learning..
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You might get alerts your DFS-R management pack in SCOM about the DFS-R service inability to register itself with WMI and it can impact the replication. Exact error message is given below. DFS Replication failed to register itself with WMI. Replication is disabled until WMI registration succeeds. To resolve this issue, you may need to [...]
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Using powershell, we can query the status of a given windows cluster and instances inside it. With Windows 2008, MS is offering this ability. You need to import the failoverclusters module to use the cmdlets available to manage windows cluster. Import cluster module: Import-module failoverclusters Using this module you can do variety of things in [...]
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While having some discussion with my wife today, I came across an interesting scenario where “Active Directory Users and Computers” MMC is not showing the “Live Communications Server” tab in user properties though the LCS administrator tools are installed. I searched about same problem in internet and looks like many people have already experienced this. [...]
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You might see the error message outlined in subject while installing/uninstalling software on windows 2003 computer by connecting to terminal services. We all know that application installation has certain limitations when it comes to terminal services (anyone know why?). In such cases if you still want to install/uninstall the application on these terminal services enabled [...]
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Are you in need of a script which uninstall patches from both local and remote computers? You landed at right place. Today I came across a question in one of the forum asking for a way to uninstall patches/security updates/hotfixes from llocal or remote computers. While this is an easy thing to perform on local [...]
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