What a change!!! Never saw IE so speedy and useful !!!
The absolute "must have".
Download here.
Enjoy!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Detecting hardware memory problems
Last week I've got a new PC for evaluation of W2K8 Server - especially Hyper V features. Unfortunately, two days ago the box started to show me BSOD approximately once a hour. All the available out-of-box checks didn't show valuable results. Microsoft error reporting displayed on each new start after crash, the report is corrupt. Analyzing of numerous dump files didn't show any regularity either.
Only usage of Microsoft Memory Diagnostics helped to detect memory problems:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
This free tool was the only solid technical witness for computer store to change the bad memory modules.
I would highly recommend to burn this bootable diagnostics CD and keep it in the "emergency box" to be able to detect memory problems quickly.
Enjoy!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Windows Live Writer for bloggers
This blog entry I created using Windows Live Blog Writer:
http://get.live.com/writer/overview
Must have for bloggers.
Enjoy!
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Cannot scan to a SMB location on Vista (Part II)
Investigating scanning to SMB problem - using RICOH multi-function device and VISTA Home Premium edition - found out, the proposed solution is no always enough.
Trying to send scanned page to a shared folder on VISTA Home Premium box still returned error "connection error". Other computer in the same net segment can easily create files and folder on this share but RICOH cannot.
Installed wireshark on the VISTA box and recorded network conversation between RICOH and VISTA. Following fragment was the key to found error cause:
Changed the name to MYPC - it worked immediately.
One more remark: localization of VISTA is smart. I'd say - too smart. When I tried to the name of the box to SCHUER, VISTA keeped box name as SCHÜR instead - automatically transform UE letters combination to an Ü according regional settings.
So, never use local language special characters if you want that networking devices speaking with shares on your machine over NETBIOS can connect to them.
Enjoy!
Trying to send scanned page to a shared folder on VISTA Home Premium box still returned error "connection error". Other computer in the same net segment can easily create files and folder on this share but RICOH cannot.
Installed wireshark on the VISTA box and recorded network conversation between RICOH and VISTA. Following fragment was the key to found error cause:
No. Time Delta Source Destination Protocol Info SrcPort DstPort HwSrc HwDst Length
2 21:16:19.909854 0.000099 192.168.2.105 RNPC5354D NBNS Name query response NBSTAT 137 61929 00:1d:92:29:55:ec 00:00:74:c5:35:4d 253
Frame 2 (253 bytes on wire, 253 bytes captured) Ethernet II, Src: Micro-St_29:55:ec (00:1d:92:29:55:ec), Dst: Ricoh_c5:35:4d (00:00:74:c5:35:4d) Internet Protocol, Src: 192.168.2.105 (192.168.2.105), Dst: RNPC5354D (192.168.2.102) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: netbios-ns (137), Dst Port: 61929 (61929) NetBIOS Name Service
Transaction ID: 0x0000
Flags: 0x8400 (Name query response, No error)
Questions: 0
Answer RRs: 1
Authority RRs: 0
Additional RRs: 0
Answers
*<00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00>: type NBSTAT, class IN
Name: *<00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00><00>
Type: NBSTAT
Class: IN
Time to live: 0 time
Data length: 155
Number of names: 6
Name: SCH<9a>R<00> (Workstation/Redirector)
Name flags: 0x400 (B-node, unique, active)
Name: RA<00> (Workstation/Redirector)
Name flags: 0x8400 (B-node, group, active)
Name: SCHsR<20> (Server service)
Name flags: 0x400 (B-node, unique, active)
Name: RA<1e> (Browser Election Service)
Name flags: 0x8400 (B-node, group, active)
Name: RA<1d> (Local Master Browser)
Name flags: 0x400 (B-node, unique, active)
Name: <01><02>__MSBROWSE__<02><01> (Browser)
Name flags: 0x8400 (B-node, group, active)
Unit ID: 00:1d:92:29:55:ec
The NETBIOS name of the VISTA box was using german umlaute characters: SCHÜR. These characters were wrong interpreted by RICOH (seems to be, the built-in networking communication software cannot process localized characters - only english character set).Changed the name to MYPC - it worked immediately.
One more remark: localization of VISTA is smart. I'd say - too smart. When I tried to the name of the box to SCHUER, VISTA keeped box name as SCHÜR instead - automatically transform UE letters combination to an Ü according regional settings.
So, never use local language special characters if you want that networking devices speaking with shares on your machine over NETBIOS can connect to them.
Enjoy!
Access privileges troubles while using STSADM
Being promoted to MOSS Farm administrator in Central Administration Application still doesn't mean one may freely use also STSADM utility on this farm.
Promotion to farm administrator registers a user for use MOSS config database but not the Admin Content database. You need access to Admin Content database to be able to use STSADM - at least dbdatareader and dbdatawriter role.
Unfortunately, there are number of operations not available from Central Administration, but highly required to perform effective farm administration. One sample is adding a MOSS solution to the farm: you cannot do it from CA - only STSADM -o addsolution helps.
So, as far as you consider to use STSADM utility to manage your farm - be sure you have enough privileges for MOSS SQL database.
Enjoy!
Promotion to farm administrator registers a user for use MOSS config database but not the Admin Content database. You need access to Admin Content database to be able to use STSADM - at least dbdatareader and dbdatawriter role.
Unfortunately, there are number of operations not available from Central Administration, but highly required to perform effective farm administration. One sample is adding a MOSS solution to the farm: you cannot do it from CA - only STSADM -o addsolution helps.
So, as far as you consider to use STSADM utility to manage your farm - be sure you have enough privileges for MOSS SQL database.
Enjoy!
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