I was onsite today with a client. While I was doing some work on a number of unrelated things, their helpdesk team leader came to me with an urgent issue. Apparently a large number of users had suddenly gotten this window pop up on their screens from the Interactive Service Detection. Initial user response was to panic of course, and the helpdesk team leader … [Read more...]
Where can I find the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Log Files?
When troubleshooting problems on Windows Server 2012 Essentials or Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, the log files are certainly one of the most important features. They are typically hidden away from view for the most part, but in Windows Server 2012 Essentials and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, Microsoft have placed most of them in the … [Read more...]
Display Corruption on Windows 7 and Intel Express Chipset Family
I’ve had problems with my Toshiba Portege R600 for a few months now where when using it the display will corrupt from time to time. You can see an example of it below. I’ve been thinking that it had some major hardware issue and was about to replace it. I discovered however that there is a fix for it. Microsoft has documented here about how systems … [Read more...]
New options for PING
I found out today that the command PING on Windows has some new options (thanks Sean). Did you know that you can now ping from a different source address than your default address? Well you can. If you use the –S option you can specify the source address for a system that has multiple IP’s assigned to it. Apparently this snuck into the PING command some time … [Read more...]
Help – My Exchange Services are Disabled!
Ok – so this has been seen a few times now. Long story short though is that when Exchange applies a Service Pack or Update Rollup, it sets a number of services to Disabled so that it can replace the exes involved. I’ve seen it where for whatever reason however the installation fails without notice. You think everything is ok till you reboot it and then you … [Read more...]