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...]
Are you running Windows Server 2008 SP2 yet?
Straight up question – no matter if you are on SBS 2008 or not, if you are not yet running Service Pack 2 on your Windows Server 2008 installation you should get moving and upgrade to it. Why? Because it fixes so many issues that affect other third party products and the stability of your server. Take the biggest example is the TDI Driver fix here. … [Read more...]
Server goes offline without warning
I’ve recently helped investigate a number of SBS 2008 and Windows 2008 servers that have gone offline and have things like DHCP not working, unable to access network drives and the like. Two common threads on these servers were that they both had TrendMicro WFBS 6.0 installed as well as IT Control Suite for the resellers to manage them. After much investigation I found … [Read more...]
Server goes offline without warning
I’ve recently helped investigate a number of SBS 2008 and Windows 2008 servers that have gone offline and have things like DHCP not working, unable to access network drives and the like. Two common threads on these servers were that they both had TrendMicro WFBS 6.0 installed as well as IT Control Suite for the resellers to manage them. After much investigation I found … [Read more...]