With the new Microsoft Windows Multipoint Server, better and improved features are designed to make business operations much more productive and cost effective. With support for thin clients and older workstations as well as better connectivity with other Microsoft Server products, the new Multipoint Server is sure to be a much more versatile tool to [...]
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The New Windows Multipoint Server
January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Backup, Microsoft, Servers, Storage
VMware ESXi – Enabling SSH Access
January 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Servers, VMware, Virtualization
In today’s data centers, many companies are turning to virtual environments for their needs. A GUI interface can be a great tool to use when managing your virtual environments, and this is the case with VMware ESXi. The whole VMware environment can be managed by the GUI, but sometimes administrators want to have more access and options [...]
Tags: Servers·Virtualization·VMware
Memory Issues for IE 8 in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
January 5th, 2012 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
I recently had a user call to advise that they were experiencing latency and performance issues when opening links in new tabs in a published IE 8 window. I checked Task Manager on the server that the user was logged into and realized that this user had seven different iexplore.exe processes running at the same [...]
How to Disable Remote Logon on a Citrix XenApp Server or Terminal Server
January 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Servers
If you have ever had to manage a Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, or any other Terminal Server-based environment, you’ve probably run into issues on a specific server in the farm or needed to perform maintenance on a server. You might also want to disable logons for another reason, such as new app [...]
Tags: Citrix·Servers·Terminal Server·XenApp
Bypassing Command Line for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core
December 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
Going from GUI (graphical user interface) to CLI (command line interface) can be even more frustrating than it is daunting. If there is a mistype in the syntax and it’s not caught until after the command is run, it has to be edited by either retyping the entire command or manually editing each part. This [...]
Tags: Microsoft·Server 2008·Windows
Resolving an AutoEnrollment Event ID 13 Error
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
The AutoEnrollment Event ID 13 can plague a Directory Service log within the Event Viewer. The problem with this error is the rate at which is it logged: every 6 hours. How do you catch an event that logs only once during business hours? You don’t: the issue is relatively simple to resolve. The problem [...]
Tags: AutoEnrollment·errors·Event ID 13·Microsoft·Servers·Windows Server
Remotely Rebooting a Server
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Servers
I was recently trying to do some maintenance on a server at a remote site. The server was hung up, and I could not remotely access services, remote into the machine, etc. It was replying to pings, but there was no Out of Band management addresses (DRAC or ILO) for the server either, so I [...]
Cool Tool Friday: Blue’s Port Scanner
December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Servers
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Tags: Blue's Port Scanner·Cool Tool Friday·cool tools·ports·Servers
Cool Tool Friday: WhatsConnected
November 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Servers, Virtualization
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Tags: Cool Tool Friday·cool tools·Networks·Servers·Virtualization·WhatsConnected
Exchange Database Size Considerations
November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
Over the years I’ve seen a lot of variation in database sizes in Exchange environments. Working for the Microsoft Exchange team allowed me to get a feel for what the support engineers at Microsoft see and what they’d recommend (and it’s not necessarily what’s documented, by the way). Exchange 2010 has some pretty cool enhancements, [...]
Cool Tool Friday: MTURoute
November 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Servers
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
SBS 2003 Licensing Woes
November 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
Has this ever happened to you? Your SBS 2003 server totally freaks out and resets itself to only having the default five CALs. As it turns out, you’re not alone. While there are a multitude of articles at various sites that purport to have the reason why this happens, I don’t think that anyone has [...]
Cool Tool Friday: DIG for Windows 7
October 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Microsoft, Servers
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware, software or gadget – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if [...]
Exchange and Antivirus Don’t Always Get Along
October 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Managed Services, Microsoft, Servers
In my time as a Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft for Exchange, and in my current Systems Engineering role here at Dallas Data Center, I’ve come across a lot of interesting issues within Exchange that tend to be caused by antivirus solutions installed on the Exchange Server. The two most common issues that I’ve seen [...]
Setting up Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups from the Shell
September 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
For you Exchange admins out there, I’m sure you’ve already been around the block on the Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) concept. It’s the first version of Exchange that allows you to have database-level failovers instead of server-level failovers. A fantastic four-part article breaking down everything you’ve ever wanted to know about DAGs can [...]
Need to Increase Your Server OS Volume? Make Sure Your OS Allows It
September 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
We recently had a customer call us because they needed to expand the OS volume on their server. One of their applications was installed on the boot volume and the data files for the application were rapidly growing. However, the server was using Windows Server 2003 which, though it allows you to expand the data volume, will [...]
Fixing an Exchange Mail Flow Error
June 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Managed Services, Microsoft, Servers
We recently encountered an issue with a customer who could no longer receive external emails in their Exchange environment. After some digging, we determined that the SMTP service on the Exchange server was not communicating with Exchange due to corruption of the SMTP configuration.
To determine if this is the cause of a problem you’re encountering, [...]
How To Export Linux’s GUI Tools
June 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Servers
I recently wrote this guide to exporting the graphical user interface tools of Linux from a command prompt for our engineering group.
First, download and install Xming (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/).
Add these extensions to the Windows target and then run the program (i.e., executable options)
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Xming\Xming.exe” :0 -clipboard -ac –multiwindow
Log into the Linux box. Set the DISPLAY environmental [...]
Getting Around the Windows Server Session Limit
May 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Microsoft, Servers
Windows Server provides two Terminal Services connections to the server for management. However, if someone disconnects from the server without logging out, these connections remain active and can prevent an administrator from logging in if no sessions are available.
In Windows Server 2003, the /console switch could be used to open a special connection, Session 0, bypassing [...]
Solving Issues with P2V Migration
May 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Managed Services, Servers, Virtualization
I was working with one of our customers who had an old Windows 2000 Server running and they wanted it to be joined in their Citrix Xen environment. We thought to ourselves, this should be no problem. However, when we started the P2V process we ran into a few issues. We have since figured out [...]
Tags: Citrix·Managed Services·Servers·Virtual Machines·Virtualization·Windows 2000