Trying out noting three things that made my day. Hack a pillow case to be a seat cover case for son’s booster cushion. The four stacks of Ikea seat cushion kept running around. Delivered manpower forecast and crunch. Persisted and…
Classic Event Viewer
Windows 7 and 2008 has a new style of Event Viewer with the action pane. Strangely they still called it MMC 3.0 since it is a departure from the 2 panel MMC to the 3 panel MMC. If you prefer…
Good bye 2010, hello 2011
Happy New Year!!! 2010 was a very challenging year for me, the failing struggle to adapt to a end user environment steeped in bureaucratic procedures, to changing jobs and getting stiffed by HR. Well, all were not lost, as I…
A troika of errors.
Does everything happen in threes? It all started when I used an older version of procedure to perform a certain function. A silly but not uncommon error. What happened next was simply astounding. To unrolled back my mistake, another application…
SID
SID are used to uniquely identify each object in the Windows world . An analogy will be social security numbers or NRIC number. I was very surprised when I heard that the famous sysinternal tool, newsid has ben depreciated. Afterall…
SCOM problems
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager or SCOM 2007 can be a blessing when it is working. When it is not, it is a real pain to troubleshoot. It all began when the database is full and it kept complaining until…
SMS 2003 and Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU)
Microsoft Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates and SMS 2003.
System Center Operations Manager 2007
I have used the grandfather of this application when it was called Microsoft Operation Manager. It can be annoying, sending out alerts after another for the most mundane to weird situations. eg DAC component out of date, high memory usage. etc
To Err is divine
Using Err Tool to decode hex codes.
How to shutdown lots of servers.
Rebooting or shutting down lots of servers.