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 ; This also simplifies were problems are occurring rather than worrying about replication and such things. After…
Large IIS log files
Here’s a nice little tip to shrink or keep control of your IIS log files. While looking at a space issue on a server recently I noticed that their W3SVC3 (this might be different W3SVC1) log files were about 4-5Gb in size and contained thousands of log files. In order…
Not enough server storage is available to process this command
Bloomin Backups! The bane of my life, all I want to do is copy data from point A to point B! Simple, he says. Anyway rant ; This was a strange error I was receiving on an Exchange backup job which had been working for ages, suddenly I’m now getting…
APC Shutdown script
Having to shutdown multiple Servers from APC in the case of a power failure used to be a lot easier, you used to be able to simply install the agent onto any of the other servers you had and then from the single APC admin console add the servers, APC…
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…
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…
“You must enable rollback to continue with setup” during uninstall
While trying to uninstall a program I received “You must enable rollback to continue setup” Hmm I thought, clicked ok, the following error appeared:Clicked ok, had a think and then rememebered that there is a registry entry which can be changed to enable rollback. Opened Regedit by going to Start…