When replacing a certificate on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 webserver i encountered a problem that let only one SSL site run on IIS 6 (Internet Information Services). All others were stopped and couldn’t be started. This is normal behaviour of IIS 6 if you set multiple sites on SSL … Continue reading
This post will show how to use the dsquery command to determine the tombstone lifetime of a forest. Open a command prompt. Do this by typing cmd in the start menu search box. Hit enter. The command prompt opens and you type the following: dsquery * “cn=directory service,cn=windows nt,cn=services,cn=configuration,dc=<forestDN>” –scope … Continue reading
At a clients Windows 2008 server i wanted to see how long my install from media (IFM) backups would last. Install from media backups are only useable if the TombstoneLifetime setting not has been passed. This setting tells Active Directory (AD) how long to keep a deleted item in some … Continue reading
I had a challenge getting a firewall rule to work. A colleague had put an ANY ANY rule in place so our Windows 2008 servers could join the domain. Not cool! So we decided to block traffic, except for a few ports that are required for joining a windows domain. … Continue reading
When a friend of mine wanted to rename a domain i wanted to know what might happen to some older applications. I found a nice list! This list was added to a post that covered the possibilities when trying to upgrade a single-label DNS domain to a Fully Qualified DNS … Continue reading
I was trying to install a SCOM update with a rather large MSI file. 970MB is the size of the MSI. When trying to install i got the warning that my virtual memory was low. OK.. fine.. enlarge the pagefile and done… Wrong. When searching the eventlog i noticed the … Continue reading
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