When you try to enable or update Hyper-V, the computer stalls at “Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3.”…

June 10th, 2008

Where it happened? On HP DL380!!!

This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

• You enabled, disabled, or updated Hyper-V on a Hewlett-Packard (HP) server.

• The HP Network Configuration Utility was installed.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950792

NTK2008… (fixed links :) )

May 15th, 2008

I enjoyed 3 days of NT Konferenca 2008 in Portoroz.

For atendees of my sessions…

Terminalske storitve PPTx

Hands-on workshop - Implementacija tehnologije NAP z uporabo DHCP storitve na Windows server 2008 PPTx

Step-by-step NAP DOCx

Step-by-step NAP XPS

Windows server 2008 NTFS / SMB2.0 changes part III (packet analyses)

March 16th, 2008

New SMB 2.0 allows higher speeds when transfering files between Windows server 2008 machines and Windows Vista machines.
On gigabit network we can see a drastical improvement in speed and network performance. SMB2.0 allows ACK packets to be sent only after 16 megabyte of data…

 SMB 2.0 as seen by Wireshark*

*Wireshark - excelent network analyzer

Windows server 2008 NTFS / SMB2.0 changes part II (network usage)

March 16th, 2008

You can access harlink-ed files and Directory junction folders over the network… Even if files and folders are not shared (only “linked” to one of your shared folders …)

 Network accessability example

Windows server 2008 NTFS / SMB2.0 changes part I (mklink)

March 16th, 2008

 Making SYMLINK without any parameters using MKLINK command

 Making SYMLINKD using MKLINK /D command

 Making HARDLINK using MKLINK /H command

 Making JUNCTION using MKLINK /J command

When you are using this command you should know that …

  • When using without any parameters it makes symlink between two files … Files are accessible only localy on same machine.
  • When using with /D parameter it creates symlinkd link between two folders … linked folder is accessible only localy.
  • When using with /H parameter it creates hardlink between two files … This file is normaly accessible over the network and localy.
  • When using with /J parameter it creates so called Directory junction that makes folder accessible using different name… It works localy and over the network.
    So now you are able to share a folder in which you can put Directory junction folders, that normaly are not shared…

Windows server 2008 CORE + IIS 7.0 + PHP + MySQL + Wordpress :)

January 22nd, 2008

http://windowsmvp.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80195647FE07388F!485.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

“Realtime” answers… use irc.freenode.net and join #Windows

January 12th, 2008

I know you might think IRC is a bit “out”… But… On server irc.freenode.net you can find fantastic channels like:

#Windows - Windows related questions and discussions
#Windows-Server - Windows server realated stuff…
#Powershell - Powershell stuff…

If you want realy quick answers or maybe some advices to folow… Get an IRC client for example mIRC, get connected to server irc.freenode.org and join those channels…

Mailbox statistics using Powershell in Exchange 2007

January 12th, 2008

1. Sorted by Displayname (Display name, Mailbox size (MB), Item count, Last logon time, Last logoff time, Last loggedon user account)

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “mailbox database” | Sort -Property DisplayName | ft DisplayName,@{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Mailbox Size(MB)”}, itemcount, lastlogontime,lastlogofftime,lastloggedonuseraccount

2. Sorted by Last logon time
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “mailbox database” | Sort -Property lastlogontime | ft DisplayName,@{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Mailbox Size(MB)”}, itemcount, lastlogontime, lastlogofftime

Remove disconnected mailboxes from the database using Powershell in Exchange 2007

January 12th, 2008

Get-MailboxStatistics -database “SERVER\Mailbox Database” | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null} | foreach {Remove-mailbox -database $_.database -storemailboxidentity $_.mailboxguid}

Create mail-enabled public folder using Powershell in Exchange 2007

January 12th, 2008

New-PublicFolder -Name “test@test.com” -Path \TEST

Enable-MailPublicFolder -Identity “\TEST\test@test.com”

Set-MailPublicFolder -Identity “\TEST\test@test.com” -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false

Set-MailPublicFolder -Identity “\TEST\test@test.com” -EmailAddresses “test@test.com”, “test@test.net”, “test@test.org”

Set-MailPublicFolder -Identity “\TEST\test@test.com” -PrimarySmtpAddress test@test.comAdd-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity “\TEST\test@test.com” -User Username -AccessRights EditorGet-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity “\TEST\test@test.com” | fl