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In some scenarios it may be useful to adjust the date and time settings on a domain system. Especially when testing a particular millennium bug, or something like that :)
By default on a Windows domain, the time is synchronized every now and then; mostly within minutes. This may be undesirable if you’re planning to test for a few hours.
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
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: %
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:
Last week one of my servers had an strange issue. After pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE to log on, the log on window turned almost completely black (as you can see in the screenshot).
Google gave me the answer, but I still have no idea how this could have happened.