From time to time, I hear of or read about someone troubleshooting what they think may be a Windows Firewall related connectivity issue. To troubleshoot this, they stop the Windows Firewall service (either from services.msc , the command-line, or some other method). What this results in though is a total network lockdown of the system …
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Properly Stopping the Windows Firewall for Troubleshooting
August 5th, 2012 | Posted by in Security | Windows - (0 Comments)ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy (part 2)
May 29th, 2010 | Posted by in ConfigMgr 2007 | Configuration Manager | Group Policy | Software Updates - (1 Comments)This post is a continuation of my previous post: ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy. So how do the rest of the settings in the Windows Updates Group Policy section affect Software Updates in ConfigMgr? The short answer is that they don’t. These settings effectively control how the Windows Update Agent automatically handles updates. …
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ConfigMgr Software Update Management and Group Policy
May 9th, 2010 | Posted by in ConfigMgr 2007 | Configuration Manager | Group Policy | Software Updates - (0 Comments)There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management (SUM) on ConfigMgr clients. At the outset of this post (or series of posts), I don’t even know exactly what’s going to happen with some of the different settings and combinations that I’m going to try …
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Holy cow batman! The title says it all and is the conclusion of one Mark Russinovich — Windows Guru Guru Extraordinaire. Check out his blog post: The Machine SID Duplication Myth.
Windows Activation: Troubleshooting and Monitoring the KMS
April 9th, 2009 | Posted by in KMS | Windows - (0 Comments)As I’ve described in the previous two installments, the KMS is a pretty simple and straight-forward service. When you think about, this makes sense because the only thing that it does is activate clients. So how do you track what the KMS is doing and identify any issues? The first way is a vbscript located …
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A Key Management Server system is any system in your environment that you installed using a KMS key. That’s right, any system, Vista included. I have been to customers large and small who had five, ten, and more KMSs running their environment. Yikes. As I stated in part one (Windows Activation: The Basics), don’t use …
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Windows Activation, to some, has become confusing and a source of constant trouble. Why? Because they didn’t read the documentation. Gone are the days of simply inserting a CD or DVD and installing a Microsoft product. The single biggest source of confusion is the existence of two types of activation keys: KMS and MAK. KMS …
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LoadPerf 3011 and Running out of Space on a Hyper-V Guest
January 12th, 2009 | Posted by in Windows - (0 Comments)Today, I visited a customer that I had installed an evaluation version of Configuration Manager at. 120 days passed a couple of weeks ago and now it was time to convert the evaluation into a full version. Simple process really, insert CD, run upgrade … watch LUN on iSCSI storage array hosting the dynamically expanding …
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Administrators new to System Center Configuration Manager (and SMS) are often befuddled by return/error codes from programs delivered using an advertisement. The common question is typically something like “Where can I find a list of error codes?” The answer to this question is that you can’t find a list. Program return/error codes are completely dependant …
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