Open the Start menu and type: Slui.exe 0x3 This will allow you to change the product code which is required when using Enterprise installations.
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Backup Exchange 2010 SP1 on Windows 2008 R2 with Windows Backup
First install the Windows Server Backup Features using the Server Manager. Select both the Windows Server Backup and Command-line Tools. Now locate the “Microsoft Exchange Server Extension for Windows Server Backup” service and set the service to automatic and start it. Now we are ready to begin the backup process from the Windows Server Backup tool. From Start […]
DNSSEC on Windows 2008 R2
Beefing up DNS with DNSSEC is a very hot topic in the Netherlands. Our goverment has decided that all goverment domains must be secured per default and the Netherlands itself has the highest implementationrate of DNSSEC domains in the world, which is no small feat as the Dutch .NL extension is one of the most […]
Beefing up your security
In light with adding as many security layers as possible to various environments I am responsible for I have come acros several interesting (Knowledge Base) articles, one of the foremost is this link http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/10-crazy-it-security-tricks-actually-work-196864 which details 10 steps on improving security in large and small networks. Although I find honeypots and tarpits a bit overkill for […]
Webfarming on Windows Server 2003 & 2008
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/loadbalancing/networkloadbalancingwindows2003.asp This guide is a very comprehensive walk-through on several key points on creating webserver farms, both in 2003 but this is also still relevant in 2008 (R2) A small pointer here is that also there is an old MS article which states you should make a binding of you cluster IP on your IIS […]
Hyper-V Time drift on Virtual DC
When working with Virtual domaincontrollers on Hyper-V you are very likely to have come across the time drifting problem. I have found a very nice site which gives so good insight in the workings of Hyper-V Time Synchronisation and also why you should keep it enabled. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/11/19/time-synchronization-in-hyper-v.aspx Ofcourse it is always recommended that you keep […]
Pending Reboot
If you are running into issues with unexpected “Pending Reboot” status on a Windows box it’s worth while to check the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager should contain a key named “PendingFileRenameOperations” which is a REG_MULTI_SZ key. This contains the pointers to all files currently being updated. This key can, in some cases, get poluted by […]
Debugging Scheduled tasks “Last Result 0XE0434F4D”
Ran into a problem today with using a scheduled task which was not executing properly after changes being made to it’s batchjob. Ofcourse the Windows Task Scheduler doesn’t give a very good description on the error message so I found a nice article that uses the following code: @echo off echo %date% %time% Start of […]