Jul 30th, 2010
by Christian.
On a newly installed Windows 2008 server (HP DL360G6), I found the following error in my event log:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 30-7-2010 8:52:42
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: servername
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
cdrom
Posted in: Windows 2003, Windows 2008.
Jul 19th, 2010
by Christian.
Today, my SCOM server noticed me something was wrong with my DNS servers. On both DNS servers I got the following error:
Alert: DNS 2003 Server External Addresses Resolution Alert
Source: %
Path: %
Alert description: DNS Server % cannot resolve external address .
Alert view link: %
Posted in: Windows 2003, Windows 2008.
Tagged: dns cache · SCOM
Jun 16th, 2010
by Christian.
In a large network with many identical computer systems, you may want to consider a automatic silent BIOS update.
As I was asked to upgrade 50 DELL E6400 ATG laptops with a new BIOS, I created an advertisement in SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) which installs the new BIOS version without asking to continue/confirm.
Posted in: General.
Tagged: ATG · D530 · D620 · D630 · DELL · E6400
Jun 1st, 2010
by Christian.
If you have a KMS server running, newly installed servers will automatically activate. However, you can also manually activate your server by entering the command slmgr.vbs /ato
In my case, I recently installed a Windows 2008 SP2 server, but couldn’t get the machine activated. Everytime I ran the command slmgr.vbs /ato, the following error returned:
Posted in: Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista.
Tagged: KMS · slmgr
Apr 7th, 2010
by Christian.
In Windows 7, the Remote Registry service is stopped by default. The startup type is Manual. This setting leads to the following error when you try to connect to the registry from another computer on the network:
Posted in: Windows 2008, Windows 7.
Tagged: remote registry · remoteregistry · Windows 7