A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
Whether your servers run Windows or Linux, whether your workstations are Windows 7 or Macs, and no matter what vendor your network gear comes from, one of the most critical administrative tasks for admins of any system is patching. With new vulnerabilities announced every week, and with dozens, if not hundreds of different applications running on your network, having […]
Read moreIf you are unable to remote desktop into a server using the computer name, but you are able to remote into the server using the IP address and you get the error message below. Make sure the date/time is in sync between your DNS server and the host server you are trying to remote […]
Read moreWhen trying to open MS SQL Server Configuration Manager, a dialog may appear.. Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager. Invalid class [0x80041010] This is caused by an issue with the compiled SQL Configuration […]
Read moreYou try to RDP into a Terminal Server and you get this message below. You can run the following comment to view terminal server sessions. Qwinsta /server:computername This will show you which sessions are hung. Then […]
Read moreIntroduction Every Microsoft Windows server should be monitored for performance issues, but if you have nothing to compare it against, how do you know when its over worked or ticking over? Steps (6 total) 1 Opening the tool Expand First open performance monitor on the server (you can run or setup a schedule from your own machine with domain admin […]
Read moreHow To Install Trusted Root Certification Authority With MMC Requirement: sometimes we need to install a third part Certificate as “Trusted Root Certification Authority”. Solution: You can run windows MMC tool by following: 1) Start MMC Tool Click Start -> Run -> Entry MMC and click ‘OK’ 2) Click File -> Add/Remove SnapIn… 3) Add Certificate Select ‘Certificates’ in left […]
Read moreIf you try to login to a client or server system and you get this error message below: “the group policy client service failed the logon.Access Denied” Do the following to fix it: Logon to the machine with a machine administrator account (assuming this issue is with a domain account, if not logon […]
Read moreManaging Remote Print Servers In the previous chapter it was stated that the Print Management tool provides a central location from which the print services for an entire network may be managed. So far we have only looked and managing the print server running on the local computer. In this section we will look at adding remote servers to the […]
Read moreInstalling the Print Server The first step in setting up a Windows Server 2008 print server is to install the Print Server role. This is achieved by launching the Server Manager, selecting Roles item from the tree in the left pane and clicking on Add Roles. In the Add Roles Wizard click next on the Welcome screen if one appears and then select the Print Services option. Click Next and read […]
Read moreSetting up clustering on Windows servers is not as difficult as it’s often made out to be. There are some precise steps to be followed and all becomes clear. I’ve asked a number of people recently whether they’d installed clustering on Windows servers. Turns out that none of them had – though one had inherited a clustered server pair […]
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