Reclaiming space from thin provisioned disks in VMware ESXi
This is the procedure that has worked for me. There are various methods dating as far back as 2011 across the internet, but this step-by-step works in my…
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Initialization of Client failed: Closing Application
After installing Rand McNally IntelliRoute software, users may experience the error "Initialization of Client failed: Closing Application" This problem is usually attributed to inadequate permissions for the user…
GoFileRoom Error: The service you are trying to reach is unavailable. Please try again later.
TL;DR GoFileRoom made changes to their encryption by using TLS1.2. In order for GFR add-on to work in Windows Server, you must modify 2 registry entries for .NET…
CPU-miner Installed via Windows OS Vulnerability
I have triaged a handful of Windows servers this week that started out being ticketed as high CPU / performance issues. Upon investigation, I have found XMR cryptocurrency…
System and Compressed Memory
I was looking at my system’s performance (Windows 10 Build 10565) and noticed something I hadn’t seen before “System and compressed memory” utilizing about 500MB. Looking into this…
Defrag SQL MDF and LDF on Server
I wrote this script to defrag all the found MDF and LDF files on a server that I've been testing on. It uses Sysinternal's Contig tool which is…
Determine Version of Microsoft Project Plan File
Found a quick way to determine the version of Microsoft Project Plan files (.MPP). The information is available at Microsoft's site directly: Click Here Here's the batch script…
Server 2008 R2 Performance Tuning
Here's some of the things I do to a new Server 2008 R2 install (physical and/or virtual settings are mixed in; (VIRTUAL ONLY) specifies I only do configuration…
Defrag SQL MDF, LDF Files on Disk using Contig
Wrote this batch script to search an entire system (all disks) and find MDF/LDFs and then prompt whether or not to defrag. You need to have 'contig' from…
wmic output hangs when using psexec
I recently found when trying to issue a wmic query on a remote system with psexec (1.98) it would hang and not display results. The solution is to…
Event ID 4226
Every time I have come across this event: Event ID 4226 Description TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts. it…
UPHCleanup, Handle, ProcExp vs. NTUSER.DAT
The infamous: Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system. This was received on Windows Server 2003 Terminal…
Open Windows Registry at Specific Key
Ever needed to jump to a specific registry key? Regedit doesn't allow you to do this natively; when launched, regedit uses the last open location to go to.…
Enable XP Remote Administration through Firewall
This isn't going to be detailed… Get PsExec from SysInternals (http://live.sysinternals.com/psexec.exe) psexec remoteComputerName cmd /c netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin This runs the "netsh" command on the remote…
Disk2VHD: Create a virtual disk of live system
Another great tool from Mark Russinovich at SysInternals called Disk2VHD I just discovered. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk…