I’ve been investigating a client site in which the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service will not always start up reliably after a reboot. This is quite a pain as if it’s not running, it will cause havoc with the users Exchange configuration. What I decided to do was to change the service startup type from Automatic to Automatic (Delayed Start). Services … [Read more...]
Powershell Tip #1 – Handling Services on a Computer
I’m doing more and more with Powershell and whilst I’m no programmer, I’m going to post a few tips that I find along the way that make it easy to deal with things. Todays tip is about Services and how to handle them. Here are a few that I’ve used today whilst onsite doing work for a client to deal with their servers service configurations. We needed to stop … [Read more...]
Tape Drive not recognised after rebooting
Last week on two separate Windows Server 2008 R2 servers on a clients site, both of them decided they would not correctly recognise the tape drives anymore. These servers had not been patched in a few months (due to the onsite IT Admin) and therefore there were a large number of patches installed. The problem showed up in Device Manager with the HP LTO Tape Drive … [Read more...]
How do I create new MIME types for IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2?
I recently put a download of a CMD file on my website, but forgot to create the correct MIME type to allow it to be accessible. Without the correct MIME type, IIS 7.5 does not know how to handle the content of a specified extension and therefore will respond with a 404 error. Use this procedure to create additional MIME Types. Logon to your server using an … [Read more...]