Tuesday, May 26, 2009

BB 8310 Status

To find BB status including free memory do: alt+shift+H

Friday, May 15, 2009

SLMGR - license manager

I took the reference from other blog - slmgr tool is "Software Licence Manager" :"SLMgr Commands and Options

I’ve been dealing a lot lately with activation of Server 2008. It’s not been as easy as I’d like. In searching for some help, I came across a great article on SLMgrSLMgr Commands and Options with Windows Vista Product Key Activation. This article provides a good look at the options with this SLMgr.ext tool. "

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

VMM 2008 error 13805

Then trying to add the cluster to VMM get error 13805 "Unable to contact cluster service on servername.domain" . VMM installed on one node in the cluster.  Cluster Group located on same server.
Solution: move Cluster Group to different node. From elevated CMD type: cluster group "Cluster Group" /move
To see the help for cluster group command type: cluster group /?

Monday, May 11, 2009

Broken by updates.

Symptoms:
You can not access IIS web sites locally, search indexing does not work, any service what should authenticate to IIS with NTLM does not work.
Solution: 

I fixed it by this method on two MOSS 2007 servers -

"Method 2: Disable the loopback check

Follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
  3. Right-click Lsa, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
  4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click DisableLoopbackCheck, and then click Modify.
  6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
  7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer. "