Multi Architect

S cenario You have a single vmdk file of 200 GB and it has two logical volumes C & D with 100 GB each. Suppose you need to add another 100 GB to the D drive making it 200 GB. What would you do ? The steps are simple and straight forward.

Issue When you boot your Windows 2008 R2 OS, the machine gets halted with a blue screen error. The error will have the below information: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Technical Information: *** STOP: 0x000000D1 ( Some address values ) *** tcpip.sys – Address information

Symptom After creating a new DHCP server in Windows 2008 server ,failed to authorize the DHCP server. The server was throwing the below error while trying to authorize. ‘The specified servers are already present in the directory service’

Scenario I've an environment with Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 servers in  Windows 2000 Native mode . If I try to add any AD group in a folder security group of a Windows 2008 server, the AD group name won't get resolved.

Find the PID of the affected service using the below query. sc queryex SPTimerV3 Will receive the below output on execution: SERVICE_NAME: SPTimerV3 TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING (STOPPABLE, PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN) WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) CHECKPOINT : 0x1 WAIT_HINT : 0x4e20 PID : 1696 FLAGS : Kill the PID of the service taskkill /PID 1696 /F

To query ntp server of a server Net Time /querysntp To sync time of member servers with domain controller w32tm /resync /nowait To query FSMO roles in an environment netdom query fsmo To query the details of currently logged in users qwinsta -server servername To log off a currently logged in user using his session id rwinsta -server servername sessionid To query the membership details of a domain user DSQUERY USER -samid loginname | DSGET USER -memberof -expand To query the sharing & security details of a folder showacls To check whether an account is locked out NET USER loginname /DOMAIN | FIND /I "Account active" To unlock a domain user NET USER loginname /DOMAIN /ACTIVE:YES To query members in a domain net view To query the member DCs of a domain NETDOM QUERY DC To collect network statistics pathping ipaddress To query the current running tasks tasklist -svc To kill a currently running task using its pid number taskkill -pid pidnumber