http://itsupportjournal.com Experience it. Log it. Share it. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:15:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you would like to enable Windows Firewall on a domain controller, you will want to consider the following exceptions to the firewall before going live. These exceptions are necessary if you want domain authentication and file and print sharing. I would also recommend enabling these ports so only the ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/07/14/setup-windows-firewall-on-a-domain-controller/ The other day I was battling with a continuously crashing print spooler service. It seemed like every two minutes the service would stop and start again. Trying to diagnose the cause of this problem can be very frustrating, because MANY things can cause behavior like this. One of the ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/07/01/fix-a-crashing-print-spooler-service/ The format of the network name is invalid. If you see this error, make sure your server is actively listening on a bound ip address. In a command prompt type the following: httpcfg query iplisten This will show you the IP addresses listening on port 80. Note: If you receive an error that says, 'httpcfg' ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/06/19/iis-wont-start-the-format-of-the-network-name-is-invalid/ This is a great shortcut that can save the average, over-worked IT guy many moments of sanity! Find all of your remote desktop sessions in one convenient place and have the ability to log into them autmatically. This tool is free because it uses Microsofts built-in MMC snap-ins. To get started, ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/06/08/remote-desktop-mmc/ For those of you who have a need to keep your server or workstation tidy, employing an automatic file deletion script may be right up your alley. Take for instance, your web logs, sql logs, or Windows temp files. All of these files can get really out of hand ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/04/29/further-automate-disk-clean-up-by-scripting/ Here is my standard list of what can be moved from the system partition of an SBS server: Moving Data Folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/maintain/movedata.mspx How to move Exchange databases and logs in Exchange Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821915 How to Move Small Business Server 2000 Company and Users Shared Folders http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329640 How to Move the Client ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/04/23/free-up-space-on-sbs-system-partition/ To free up disk space outlook express can compact messages. Problem is, you don't even have Outlook Express installed! What's going on? This problem occurs if Outlook Express uses a third party search tool to index items on your hard drive. For our purposes we will say that you have ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/01/16/fix-outlook-express-needs-to-compact-disk-space/ If I could give an award to the best tool of 2008, it would be Malwarebytes, anti-spyware application. This tool has saved me hours of work, time and time again. You may recall in late 2008, a virus that was sweeping the internet and infecting machines so badly they became ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2009/01/04/malwarebytes-defeats-xp-antivirus-2008/ After encountering an ESX host problem the other night, I ran into an issue today with a VM guest showing up as "invalid" in virtual center. I was able to bring the guest back into VC without taking an outage by doing the following procedures. First some ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2008/12/09/fix-invalid-guest-on-virtual-center/ Here’s a doc I found presented at vmworld where a vender did a white paper to compare the performance of the 3 storage solutions. The test lab was 2 ESX hosts running 8 guests each. Fibre channel won on speed (and is not vunerable to the network ... http://itsupportjournal.com/2008/11/27/rethinking-storage-protocols/