Microsoft Windows

Windows can allow a user to create a file or folder with a space at the end that it then cannot manage, to remove it you need to follow this procedure. You’ll receive an error if you try to remove it. Find out the 8.3 version of the folder name by opening a command prompt: … Read more

There are many causes of a 500 error on PHP pages on IIS. But this was a little bit of a weird one, when trying to make some php pages work they all generated 500 errors. I created a test php page which worked fine, just all the scripts didn’t so I checked through the … Read more

I have the following problem when trying to install nsclient++ onto a Windows 2003 Server SP2 (note this is a member server). Using a local administrator account on the server trying to install the install completes but the service does not get registered trying to manually register gives this error: C:\Program Files\NSClient++\nsclient++ -install e NSClient++.cpp(212) … Read more

Heres a neat trick, seems to work ok. Remember however, when you export it switches off the old dhcp server. So be quick! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325473/

The * means prompt for a password. Example Okay say you have a member server that has fallen off the domain, but you don’t want to go through the normal procedure of using “My Computer”->”Computer Name” and then disjoining to a WORKGROUP rebooting, then re-joining to the domain and rebooting again. Note: You need to … Read more

Open ADSI edit. Configuration-> Services- > NetServices Checked the properties of: CN=DhcpRoot Then edited this attribute: dhcpServers There was one server listed in there: i172.17.5.1$rcn=cdc.domain.com$0x00000000$dcdc01.domain.com$ This was the one that seemed to be left hanging around. Took a note of the settings just incase then deleted it and clicked “OK” to apply the settings. Checked … Read more

How to setup the NSClient++ on Windows

Here was a weird one, Word 2003 froze on startup, opening the document in word 2007 was the key to it, in the bottom left, it flashed up trying to connect to \\servername\folder\test.dot. Hmm in our case the servername was the name of a server that had been decommissioned! WOrd 2007 allows you to hit … Read more

Service Principal Names (SPN) – A Basic Overview For kerberos to operate correctly, it needs to make use of SPNs. Service Principal Names are built up to link a domain account to a service on a server. So if you run your SQL server service on the server called: SERVER01 in the domain: turnip.com using … Read more