Domain Controller Blue Screen
During an upgrade of our VMware ESX infrastructure, I ran into an issue with our domain controllers. As part of the process we needed to upgrade the virtual har...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
NetApp and Microsoft Security Updates
When the recent SMB 2.0 vulnerability was announced, there was some discussion on the Toasters mailing list about whether Data ONTAP was affected. Val Bercovici...
Is that program running as administrator?
Using Process Explorer to view process integrity levels A friend asked me how to open a Control Panel applet As Administrator. In Windows Vista, when you see a ...
Monday – 2009-09-28
Today’s issues: Backup issues Shared folder quotas Printer configurations Data execution protection I created a Server 2008 x64 guest for managing 64-bit driv...
backups – Bad and Good
We’ve been working with our backup vendor to address some shortcomings of their product as it relates to Windows 2008 system recover. This was precipitated by...
re-enabling ESET NOD32
ESET has fixed the problem that caused widespread system hangs. If you followed my instructions to disable NOD32, you can re-enable it by repeating those steps ...
ESET NOD32 making many systems hang
I’ve spent most of the day trying identify a systematic way to work around the campus antivirus solution, which is causing widespread system hangs. Our vendor...
Range Retrieval
Working on the Server 2008 hard limit of 5000 attribute values max per query, which breaks our Identity Management process. I’m looking at having to write a c...
Steve retires :(
Among other things Steve said at his retirement celebration, today, was this. “I hope I have as much fun in retirement as I’ve had working at UVM.†My tea...
List folder contents – XP vs. Vista
Yesterday, a client called me complaining that, after installing Vista SP2, she couldn’t access a folder on a file share. She could access that same folder fr...