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 […]
Microsoft Certification – The Mark Russinovich Exam
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 […]
Slipstreaming Service Pack 2 into your Windows Server 2003 R2 media
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 […]
Recovering a single Domain Controller from a USN Rollback
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 […]
Event ID 3006 and Exchange Server 2007 performance counters
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 […]
Event ID 2095 and The USN Rollback Adventure
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 […]
Modifying RIS Images For Smaller Hard Disks
I was out at a customer site on the weekend setting up their new computer. Should be no problems at all as it was the same Dell model as one they had purchased a few months before, and I had taken the time to create a RIS image when I built that first one.Having used […]