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: :/
Ping returns the following Pinging DC1.domain.com [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from ::1: time=1ms Reply from ::1: time=2ms Reply from ::1: time=1ms Reply from ::1: time=3ms Disable IPv6 and your problems go away. It’s usually not enough to uncheck it in the NIC properties. For best results use the registry to
RPC by default can grab any dynamic port above 1024. Security sometimes may ask you to limit that to a much narrower range. A the minimum you should have about 100-200 ports available for RPC communication. Here is the registry setting: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Rpc Ports: REG_MULTI_SZ: 5000-5100 PortsInternetAvailable: REG_SZ: Y UseInternetPorts: REG_SZ: Y Full MS KB
Need to turn on integrated Authentication in IIS? Here are the steps to do it: On the taskbar, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager. In the Server Manager hierarchy pane, expand Roles, and then click Web Server (IIS). In the Web Server (IIS) pane, scroll to the Role Services
The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter… From time to time you may encounter this error on a newly P2V system. In the past it was a registry fix but now Microsoft has a prefered GUI solution: Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
Assume a trust is setup between Domain Y and Domain X From the Domain Y DC issue the following command ldifde -f output.ldf -s {FQDN of DCx} -b {user account} {domain} {password} Connecting to “FQDN of DCx” Logging in as “user account” in domain “domain” using SSPI Exporting directory to file output.ldf Searching for entries…
One of the easiest ways to see what ports a windows system is listening on is to use netstat. To get a comprehensive list open a command prompt netstat -an Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:1494 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:2598 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP
As a windows administrator I run into multiple scenarios where SSO is required –thus we have to setup UNIX to AD authentication via KERBROS. This is from the Windows point of view and other steps are required by the UNIX admin to be performed that are not covered here. First create a USER account in
Do you want to disable IPv6 on all interfaces but find that doing so on the NIC properties in the GUI does not always work properly? The best way to truly disable it is via registry setting: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters] “DisabledComponents”=dword:000000ff This will disable it on all interfaces and force IPv4 preference…