I’m sure you’ve had clients servers disks fill up on a regular basis right? Here’s a cool tool that is free that you can use to quickly figure out where it’s all gone. TreeSize Free from JAM Software is a free tool, you can download it here but I’ve also paid for the Professional Version for my own systems. As an example – here’s an example of a servers hard drive … [Read more...]
Terminal Server “The requested session access is denied” when you try to login
I was working on this issue today with one of our team. A client reported that they could not login to their Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server from their iPad. He is using iTap on his iPad. The error message we kept getting was “The requested session access is denied”. We verified that we could access the Terminal Server / Remote Desktop server using our … [Read more...]
Windows 8 Virtual Machine on Hyper-V 2008 R2 Host
If you are running a Windows 8 VM on your Hyper-V 2008 R2 host, then you really need to check out this blog post. It turns out that there can be some issues with the Windows 8 VM if you don’t have the patch and it’s likely that most people will be testing Windows 8 on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts as I have been. Note that Microsoft state that this is a REQUIRED hotfix, … [Read more...]
Free Windows 2008 R2 Study Guide
This came to me this week from one of the many email lists I’m on. It’s a free guide that will help you pass the following exams. 70-640 Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuring 70-642 Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuring 70-646 Windows Server 2008 Administrator R2 You can get your free study guide here … [Read more...]
HTTP Error 404.2–Not Found when you access a website on an IIS 7 server
A customer of mine was doing an upgrade of one of their Tax applications recently. The new application needed .Net v4.0 framework to be installed. The client did everything the application vendor instructed them to do but could not make the application work. He asked me to take a “quick look” at it. I checked out the application vendors instruction first up … [Read more...]