The process is usually straight forward {convert driveletter:FS/NTFS} but not so when using an external USB attached drive. Usually during the conversion initialization you will receive the following error: Convert cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Convert may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS
Sometimes it is the simplest things that get you. I was asked to troubleshoot a system that would not register into DNS after a domain migration. The system could ping its new gateway and the new DNS servers–telnet showed access to the new DNS boxes on port 53 and name resolution was functioning correctly other
One of the quickest and easiest ways to set network configuration on a network adapter is via command line. Lets use the following criteria: We will be setting up Local Are Connection IP: 192.168.200.2 MASK: 255.255.255.0 GW: 192.168.200.1 GW Metric: 1 Here is the syntax for IPv4: netsh interface ipv4 show config netsh interface ip set address name=”Local
I was asked to troubleshoot a recently built DNS server that was having some difficulties. One of the errors had me scratching my head for a few minutes. When doing an nslookup the following would be displayed C:\nslookup Default Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.4 As it turns out it’s not really an error –what it is describing is
While this is extremely rare you may encounter a web application that loves to open TCP connections to the point where the default pool of available TCP connections are exhausted. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System \CurrentControlSet \Services \Tcpip \Parameters] MaxUserPort = 5000 (Max = 65534) Just increase the value from the default 5000. Note: You should investigate if
So you want to replicate changes in-‘almost’-real-time to your AD sites? While this is not recomended in production enviornments you may have a need to increase replication interval in a lab or development enviornment. You will need some large and reliable connection pipes between your sites to handle the traffic. In order to do this
Mark Russinovich makes a strong case for duplicate SID myths that most of us Windows admins have subscribed to–however it never hurts to know how many duplicates you may have. Here is how you check it on your domain. Open a command prompt and type ntdsutil and press ENTER. Now type security account management and
This is a really simple procedure: Open Group Policy Management. In the console tree, double-click Group Policy Objects in the forest and domain containing the Group Policy object (GPO) into which you want to import settings. Right-click the GPO, and then click Import Settings. Follow the instructions in the Import Settings Wizard, and then click
An under utilized Microsoft tools that deserve a mention is Wfetch. It is provided as part of the IIS Resource kit and can be downloaded from Microsoft or from here. This is an invaluable part of your IIS troubleshooting tool kit. Wfetch is a great little tool to see HTTP headers as well as request and associate response
So you rebooted your Windows server and NFS did not automatically re-mount itself? To make the NFS share presistent we have to use our old friend net use. net use /persistent:yes now execute the mount command and windows will keep it as a persistent coneccetion even after re-boot. mount -u: -p: :/