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Server 2003

MS08-037 causes port conflicts with DNS and IAS services

January 28, 2009

You may encounter an issue with servers running both the DNS and IAS services that have installed update MS08-037 (Vulnerabilities in DNS could allow spoofing – 953230). The IAS services will fail to start and any authentication that relies on IAS (such as VPNs) will fail.
When connecting to the IAS server with the IAS management [...]

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Microsoft Certification – The Mark Russinovich Exam

July 31, 2008

Microsoft has released information for exam 70-660, TS: Windows Internals. This might be an odd sounding title to anyone who has never heard of Mark Russinovich or Sysinternals. From the MS Learning site:

This exam validates deep technical skills in the area of Windows Internals. Including troubleshooting operating systems that are not performing as expected or [...]

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Slipstreaming Service Pack 2 into your Windows Server 2003 R2 media

February 19, 2008

If you are like most people you will have Windows Server 2003 R2 installation media that only includes Service Pack 1. This means that any R2 server you deploy needs to have SP2 installed afterwards, which is time consuming and also pretty boring.
The good news is you can slipstream SP2 into your R2 media just [...]

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Recovering a single Domain Controller from a USN Rollback

February 7, 2008

Some time ago I wrote about my experience recovering a customer’s Active Directory from a USN Rollback condition that had been caused by some virtualisation work. There has been some discussion in the comments in that post about what to do when you have a single domain controller that thinks it is in a USN [...]

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Event ID 3006 and Exchange Server 2007 performance counters

September 10, 2007

An Exchange Server 2007 server with incorrectly loaded performance counters may result in many instances of event ID 3006 being logged to the Application Event Log.
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: LoadPerf
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3006
Date:  10/09/2007
Time:  12:51:51
User:  N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:
Unable to read the performance counter strings of the 011 language ID. The Win32 status returned by the call is the first DWORD in Data section.
For [...]

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Event ID 2095 and The USN Rollback Adventure

June 2, 2007

There are two things I tend to see a lot of at the moment. Firstly virtualisation is pretty hot right now. Everyone seems to be virtualising their infrastructure as much as possible, particularly their servers such as Domain Controllers. Secondly, some companies are too cheap (or just haven’t gotten around to it yet) to setup [...]

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