A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
So, I was on the phone, trying to walk someone through some server debugging steps. But, after some phone support, it was clear that I needed to locate a hotspot and remote into the server myself. Once I got into the server, I wondered, “I asked for it to be rebooted, but did it actually […]
Sometimes I need to get back to the basics to diagnose a problem. Although the telnet client is not a secure protocol, and you should be using secure shell (SSH) whenever possible, telnet is still useful when debugging SMTP issues. But, it’s missing from the default Windows 2008R2 installation. How do you install it? Do […]
So, I have local administrator and domain administrator rights, yet I cannot successfully open Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) on my server. I searched the web and could not find a good answer to this problem. Since the error seemed to be a SQL Server error, my searches kept bringing me back to adding […]
So, the third party certificates on a 2008R2 Remote Desktop servers were about to expire. I figured, “Log into the certificate issuer website, renew the certificate, download the new certificates, and install them. How hard could that be?” Well, more complex than I first imagined. I updated the all the certificates using the various Remote […]
I was trying to debug poor performance issues at a customer running VMware. Noticed that they were running mostly Windows 2003 Servers, as opposed to 2008 or 2008R2 virtual machines. Considering that the newer operating system require more memory resources, I wondered at why the 2003 Windows Servers were having issues. Well, it turns out […]
So, I was looking through the system event logs of a 2008R2 SP1 server today. And, I found some error 57 several times followed by error 137. This pattern repeated itself every five seconds. The server was experiencing no problems other than this repeating error message. What could it be? Turns out that this error […]
If you are installing SQL Server 2008 on a fresh instance of Windows Server, you will be prompted to install .Net 3.5 as a prerequisite. As long as you are using the older operating system versions, e.g. 2003, 2003R2, or 2008, you have the choice of (a) downloading from Microsoft or (b) letting the SQL […]
Have you ever installed a Remote Desktop Server (aka Terminal Server) and then gotten strange errors when multiple users utilize applications installed on that server? Well, I’ve found that Adobe Reader works fine even if it was installed prior to the transformation of the server into a Remote Desktop Server. But, MS Office is another […]