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Solving the system error 1326 mystery in “net use”

In IT world, there are two types of errors you have to cope with: the ones you can trust, and the ones you shouldn’t.

Sometimes it’s very obvious that the returning error code is not correct. However, when you try to map a network drive using net use, and you get the following error, you wouldn’t suspect anything else than a mistyped password:

System Error 1326 has occurred
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
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Temporarily adjust date-time settings on domain system

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.… Read the rest

Event 7026: The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: cdrom

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

As the server does not have a cdrom drive, this is an somewhat expected error (although I don’t understand why Windows wants to start the cdrom service since the server has never had a cdrom drive connected :) ).… Read the rest

SCOM: DNS 2003 Server External Addresses Resolution Alert

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 .

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KMS Error 0x80004FE2F after running slmgr.vbs /ato

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.… Read the rest