Last week, I turned on my computer running Windows XP and got the following error message when I would boot up the computer: generic host process for win32 services has […]
If you’re running Exchange 2010 at your office, you may have noticed that the default incoming and outgoing message size limit is 10,240 KB or 10 MB. These days, however, […]
Our corporate policy requires us to change Windows server local Administrator passwords on a regular basis. We have a script that accomplishes this, and after the change we do a […]
Recently, I needed to count the number of files in a directory on a Windows server. Here’s the command that can easily be scripted. It can also be used on […]
I received the following message today when trying to delete a computer object from Active Directory: Object %COMPUTERNAME% is a container and contains other objects. Are you sure you want to delete […]
The following script can be run against remote Windows machines, and will enumerate the contents of the remote server’s local administrators group. It requires Sysinternals PSExec utility, and must be […]
Things didn’t go too smoothly yesterday when I was trying to reconfigure our SQL 2005 cluster and it’s database locations. At one point, I couldn’t even get SQL Configuration Manager […]
I’m finalizing a Windows 2003 R2 build that will become our gold image, which will be the source of all new server deployments within our organization. One challenge I had to overcome […]
Last night I converted a physical Windows 2003 R2 server to a VMware virtual machine using VMware Converter Standalone version 4.0.1. The entire process was extremely simple, only four steps. […]
Here’s a quick and easy way of checking how long a Windows server or workstation has been up, via the command line. It pipes the results of Net Statistics Workstation […]