Find out which Process or PID is using a particular port
Recently a customer’s phones had stopped receiving email while their email clients on the pc’s were still working fine. Time to investigate what's going on! First some simple troubleshooting, can I get to the exchange server externally using either telnet on port 25 to the companies MX record (or external…
Hidden folder – Greyed out attribute
Simple little one this for some reason a clients main Data folder was Hidden, no idea why but some people were obviously complaining that they couldn’t see the folder. Looking at the folder properties the “Hidden” attribute was greyed out. Because of this we need to change it using a…
JRNL_WRAP_ERROR Event 13568
Following on from my nightmare weekend of having to restore Active Directory, in doing so I had to demote one of the Domain Controllers as it was causing all sorts of Active directory errors. This also simplifies were problems are occurring rather than worrying about replication and such things. After…
Unable to export to pfx
Normally a simple task of installing a certificate for IIS and Exchange 2010, however on this occasion once I’d imported the crt file into the Certificate mmc, I couldn’t then export it as a pfx certificate which Exchange 2010 requires for it to be ; As you can see all…
SpecOps Gpupdate DependencySource error
Here’s a useful little tool for you administrators out there, SpecOps GPupdate, a handy utility which adds extensions when right clicking on objects within Active Directory. Normally when I install this there are a few perquisites that need to be installed and no other issues. However on this occasion when…
Task Scheduler Result Codes
A useful little list of the Task Scheduler result codes so you can translate them:0 or 0x0: The operation completed successfully. 1 or 0x1: Incorrect function called or unknown function called. 2 or 0x2: File not found. 10 or 0xa: The environment is incorrect. 0x41300: Task is ready to run…
How to open a Command Prompt
To open the Command Prompt ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted )Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type cmd and hit click the Start Menu and click ‘Run’, in there type cmd and hit Ok or…
How to open Registry editor
To open the Registry editor ( Be careful this is a very powerful tool, not for the faint hearted ) Click the Start Menu and in the ‘Search programs and files’ box type regedit and hit Enter or click the Start Menu and click ‘Run’, in there type regedit and hit…