When I attempt to map a drive by Right Click “Computer” and select “Map Network Drive” After enter the credentials the system gives the error below “The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password. To connect using different user name and password, first disconnect any existing mappings to this […]
Recently, I opened my Firefox and I got the error below Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.When I restart the system this message reappears when I open Firefox Every time I have kill the existing Firefox […]
I discovered the following error after migrating LUNs in the Event viewer “The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable on volume Data” The issue was resolved by the following steps: Open the command prompt and type chkntfs for the drive in the error to identify the file system state i.e chkntfs […]
On many occasions I have received a request to extend/increase disk space for some servers. In Windows 2008 it is pretty straightforward and can be done through the disk management GUI from Windows 2003 down, this can only be done by using third party utilities and Microsoft Diskpart. I always use Diskpart. Diskpart is a […]
Recently I was configuring disks for SQL and the plan was to use GPT rather than MBR. For any hard drive over 2TB, we need to use GPT partition because the number of partitions on a GPT disk is not constrained by temporary schemes, such as container partitions as defined by the MBR Extended Boot […]
Robocopy is a Windows command line tool used to make copies of files and folders. This is one of my favourite tools, and it comes free as part of Windows Server Resource kit – or can be downloaded from Microsoft’s web site(rktools.exe – 11.8M). It has been part of Windows OS from Windows Vista. Robocopy […]
This post highlight some options to know GPO name for specified GUID. You can see SYSVOL contents of every GPO by browsing to: \\\SYSVOL\Domain name>\Policies\{ but this does not display the name. You can you any of the options below to see the display name of a specified GUID Option 1 – Using Active Directory […]
Recently I was configuring disks for SQL and the plan was to use GPT rather than MBR. For any hard drive over 2TB, we need to use GPT partition because the number of partitions on a GPT disk is not constrained by temporary schemes, such as container partitions as defined by the MBR Extended Boot […]
Because of the new structure in IIS 7 manager interface, there is a little change in how CSR is being generated. Follow the steps below to generate a Private Key and CSR in IIS 7.0 and above: 1. Log on to the server with the administrator account or an equivalent account. 2. Open the Internet […]
In IIS 6 and below there used to be an easy way to export the list of sites. To export the list of sites in IIS 7 and above, it is no longer done through the IIS Management console rather there is a command line utility available to accomplish the task. You can use the […]