Journey to Life: A Story Which Makes Sense

Yesterday I had an issue with a newly built Windows 2008 server. I was not able to RDP this server through my home internet connection. The server was on port redirection and it tries to bring the console but gave the following error: "Because of an error in data encryption, the session will end" After some research and google search I tried the following workaround and it worked!!!!!: I Went to: Show all Network Connections Local Area Connection -> Properties Pressed the Configure button (for the Chip) Advanced; and set the following disabled: Offload TCP LargeSend This was unexpected issue...

It sometimes happens (and it's not a good sign most of the time): you'd like to stop a Windows Service, and when you issue the stop command through the SCM (Service Control Manager) or by using the ServiceProcess classes in the .NET Framework or by other means (net stop, Win32 API), the service remains in the state of "stopping" and never reaches the stopped phase. It's pretty simple to simulate this behavior by creating a Windows Service in C# (or any .NET language whatsoever) and adding an infinite loop in the Stop method. The only way to stop the service is by killing the process then. However, sometimes it's not clear what the process name or ID is (e.g. when you're running a service hosting application that can cope with multiple instances such as SQL Server Notification Services). The way to do it is as follows: Go to the command-prompt and query the service (e.g. the SMTP service) by using sc: sc \\Servername queryex SMTPSvc This will give you the ...

You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School by Mac Anderson A few years ago I had lunch with a top executive from a company known for their legendary retail service. My wife and I are both big fans, and over lunch I shared with him some of the great service stories his people had provided the Anderson family. I said, "With the service your people give...you must have training manual 2 inches thick." He looked up and said, "Mac, we don't have a training manual. What we do is find the best people we can find and we empower them to do whatever it takes to satisfy the customer." Then he said something I'll never forget. He said, "We learned a long time ago that you can't send a duck to eagle school." "Excuse me," I said. He repeated... "You can't send a duck to eagle school." He said, "You can't teach someone to smile, you can't teach someone to want to serve, you can't teach personality. What we can do, howev...

Today I was working on an issue where an local user account getting locked out with the following event ID: Event Type: Failure Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Logon/Logoff Event ID: 529 Date: 5/17/2008 Time: 6:45:00 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Description: Logon Failure: Reason: Unknown user name or bad password User Name: XXXXXXX Domain: XXXXXXXXXXXX Logon Type: 4 Logon Process: Advapi Authentication Package: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0 Workstation Name: XxXXXXXXXXXXXX Event IDs 528 and 540 signify a successful logon, event ID 538 a logoff and all the other events in this category identify different reasons for a logon failure. However, just knowing about a successful or failed logon attempt doesn’t fill in the ...

Last week my cousin came to me and said that he has problem installing Windows XP on his brand new Toshiba L40 notebook. I noticed that XP doesn't recognises its SATA drive. And then the project started: A USB floppy drive will not work in this case as setup doesn't recognise it. Finally I went for help to my loved one (Internet) and found really nice tool (I got fond of it); NLite which allow you to integrate any external or 3rd party driver to the inbox XP installation suite. Here are the steps I used: run nLite, Welcome Screen appear, click Next. Locating the Windows installation .. insert you original Windows XP Installation CD (which I use OEM version of Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2) to you optical drive, and click Browse. Pick a location on your harddrive (or make a new folder) to store your Windows XP Installation files befoe making ISO file . Click Next. Preset. delete all preset (if exist).. click Next Task Selection, Only select to options, Driver and Bootab...

Last time when I had a hard time writing an ISO to a CD, I found two good resource kit utility (CLU); CDBURM.exe and DVDburn.exe. These are again two great tool (freely available) to burn ISO images to CD directly. Here is the command line syntax to use the tools: The cdburn.exe and dvdburn.exe Resource Kit utilities. (07-Apr-06)The cdburn.exe and dvdburn.exe Windows XP and Windows Server Resource Kit utilities will burn an ISO image to writeable media. When you type cdburn /?, you receive:Usage: cdburn -erase [image [options]] cdburn image [options] Options: -erase Erases the disk before burning (valid for R/W only) -sao Writes the image out in "session at once", or cue sheet, mode (default is "track at once") -speed Speed of burn, or 'max' for maximum speed -imagehaspostgap Use if your image already contains a 150 sector postgap The [image] must be provided unless the -erase flag is set. If both an image and -erase are provided, the media will be erase...

Woohoo!!! Today I passed the 70-647 exam, Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator. Now I get to add some more alphabet soup to my signature (MCITP 2008 Enterprise Administrator). My unbroken streak of passed exams continues! This MCITP certification is equivilent to the MCSE credential for Windows 2003.If you're interested in the certification path, see this link: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/windowsserver/2008/default.mspx .