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How To Remove A Windows Service?
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Imaging Install batch file
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008What is mscorsvw.exe and why is it eating up my CPU?
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008mscorsvw.exe is precompiling .NET assemblies in the background. Once it’s done, it will go away. Typically, after you install the .NET Redist, it will be done with the high priority assemblies in 5 to 10 minutes and then will wait until your computer is idle to process the low priority assemblies. Once it does that it will shutdown and you won’t see mscorsvw.exe. One important thing is that while you may see 100% CPU usage, the compilation happens in a process with low priority, so it tries not to steal the CPU for other stuff you are doing. Once everything is compiled, assemblies will now be able to share pages across different processes and warm start up will be typically much faster, so we’re not throwing away your cycles.
If you are really want to get rid of mscorsvw.exe from your task manager, just do:
ngen.exe executequeueditems
which will drain all the queued up work.
How to establish VPN connection from DOS
Monday, July 21st, 2008rasdial.exe entryname [username [password|*]] [/DOMAIN:domain]
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008This is a Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy issue. To resolve the issue, please follow the instructions below:
1. Please backup the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EventSystem\{26c409cc-ae86-11d1-b616-00805fc79216}\Subscriptions
2. Remove this registry key along with all its sub-keys 3. Reboot the machine
Although, it is not an official recommendation from Microsoft, this key will get recreated after the machine is restarted.
Windows Server 2003 SP2 Slipstreaming
Thursday, June 12th, 2008WindowsServer2003-KB914961-SP2-x86-ENU.exe /X
PPTP
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) packets (protocol 47).
Port.: 1723
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 32-bit Support Tools
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Configuring Group Policy for Offline Files
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The settings are available in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files and in Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Offline Files
How to view and transfer FSMO roles in Windows Server 2003
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007FSMO Roles
In a forest, there are at least five FSMO roles that are assigned to one or more domain controllers. The five FSMO roles are:
| ? | Schema Master: The schema master domain controller controls all updates and modifications to the schema. To update the schema of a forest, you must have access to the schema master. There can be only one schema master in the whole forest. |
| ? | Domain naming master: The domain naming master domain controller controls the addition or removal of domains in the forest. There can be only one domain naming master in the whole forest. |
| ? | Infrastructure Master: The infrastructure is responsible for updating references from objects in its domain to objects in other domains. At any one time, there can be only one domain controller acting as the infrastructure master in each domain. |
| ? | Relative ID (RID) Master: The RID master is responsible for processing RID pool requests from all domain controllers in a particular domain. At any one time, there can be only one domain controller acting as the RID master in the domain. |
| ? | PDC Emulator: The PDC emulator is a domain controller that advertises itself as the primary domain controller (PDC) to workstations, member servers, and domain controllers that are running earlier versions of Windows. For example, if the domain contains computers that are not running Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Microsoft Windows 2000 client software, or if it contains Microsoft Windows NT backup domain controllers, the PDC emulator master acts as a Windows NT PDC. It is also the Domain Master Browser, and it handles password discrepancies. At any one time, there can be only one domain controller acting as the PDC emulator master in each domain in the forest. |
You can transfer FSMO roles by using the Ntdsutil.exe command-line utility or by using an MMC snap-in tool. Depending on the FSMO role that you want to transfer, you can use one of the following three MMC snap-in tools:
Active Directory Schema snap-in
Active Directory Domains and Trusts snap-in
Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in
If a computer no longer exists, the role must be seized. To seize a role, use the Ntdsutil.exe utility.
Transfer the Schema Master Role
Use the Active Directory Schema Master snap-in to transfer the schema master role. Before you can use this snap-in, you must register the Schmmgmt.dll file.
Register Schmmgmt.dll
| 1. | Click Start, and then click Run. |
| 2. | Type regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll in the Open box, and then click OK. |
| 3. | Click OK when you receive the message that the operation succeeded. |
Transfer the Schema Master Role
| 1. | Click Start, click Run, type mmc in the Open box, and then click OK. |
| 2. | On the File, menu click Add/Remove Snap-in. |
| 3. | Click Add. |
| 4. | Click Active Directory Schema, click Add, click Close, and then click OK. |
| 5. | In the console tree, right-click Active Directory Schema, and then click Change Domain Controller. |
| 6. | Click Specify Name, type the name of the domain controller that will be the new role holder, and then click OK. |
| 7. | In the console tree, right-click Active Directory Schema, and then click Operations Master. |
| 8. | Click Change. |
| 9. | Click OK to confirm that you want to transfer the role, and then click Close. |
Transfer the Domain Naming Master Role
| 1. | Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Domains and Trusts. | ||||
| 2. | Right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts, and then click Connect to Domain Controller.
NOTE: You must perform this step if you are not on the domain controller to which you want to transfer the role. You do not have to perform this step if you are already connected to the domain controller whose role you want to transfer. |
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| 3. | Do one of the following:
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| 4. | In the console tree, right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts, and then click Operations Master. | ||||
| 5. | Click Change. | ||||
| 6. | Click OK to confirm that you want to transfer the role, and then click Close |
Transfer the RID Master, PDC Emulator, and Infrastructure Master Roles
| 1. | Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers. | ||||
| 2. | Right-click Active Directory Users and Computers, and then click Connect to Domain Controller.
NOTE: You must perform this step if you are not on the domain controller to which you want to transfer the role. You do not have to perform this step if you are already connected to the domain controller whose role you want to transfer. |
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| 3. | Do one of the following:
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| 4. | In the console tree, right-click Active Directory Users and Computers, point to All Tasks, and then click Operations Master. | ||||
| 5. | Click the appropriate tab for the role that you want to transfer (RID, PDC, or Infrastructure), and then click Change. | ||||
| 6. | Click OK to confirm that you want to transfer the role, and then click Close. |