A useful list of Terminal Server commands – some of which I knew, some I didn’t.
We’ve had two occurances of Terminal Services and Sql server not responding after the servers had been rebooted after the patches had been applied.
Terminal Services had the service running and using mstsc to the server would result in a message saying the server was not accepting connections. Telnetting to port 3389 would come back with a connection but nothing in the telnet prompt. A reboot of the server cured this problem.
As far as SQL server was concerned, the SQL service had not restarted after the reboot – not sure why as I didn’t have time to troubleshoot – I just needed to get the service running, which happened as soon as I launched Enterprise manager and attempted to connect to the server.
Anyone else had similar experiences?
Sysinternals have finally got back to me with details on their consulting licence for their tools – a while back Sysinternals changed their licencing terms for their software which meant that use by a consultant would require payment for a commercial licence. I heard back from them today that $200 per technician per year gives you the right to use the software on any computer – but you do need to remove it when you have finished with it. I don’t think that price is unreasonable considering the power of the software, but it remains to be seen whether work will pay for it – or whether we’ll have to use alternatives….
I went out this morning and walked along the new trail in Dublin alongside (or above) the river. It was nice and peaceful, with one guy even bringing a deckchair and he was sitting there reading the newspaper. I’m not quite sure why he needed a deckchair as there were plenty of benches to sit on instead. There were several people around, but most of them were older couples taking their morning stroll. I took several photo’s – playing around with the exposure settings of the camera and have uploaded some of them to flickr – I wish I could have got a clearer photo of the spider though but I didn’t have my full size tripod with me and it was too difficult to take a photo on the macro setting, zoomed in without it appearing out of focus. It’s a really nice place to go for a stroll or a picnic (with lots of picnic tables along the route). You can either park
I’ve only had to do this once, but debugging memory dumps would have been a helpful guide.
Iopus now have their Iopus Private Internet Gateway v2 software out now. This worked ok for me in version 1 but the performance overhead was sometimes too great – however it did mean that any traffic that I sent out from my wireless card was routed back to their (or my) ipig server and then out onto the internet so no passing email or web page passwords out on the net. I already have OpenVPN working through the linksys firewall, but that just VPN’s me into the home lan – it doesn’t set the vpn tunnel as a default gateway, so all other traffic goes out on the wireless – not something I really want to happen at the moment so I’ll be downloading the ipig client and server to give a try.
The Blogroll is back. Not sure why it got confused but after removing it, copying the code into a test.php which worked fine and then copying the code back into the MT template, it’s all worked fine again.
It’s great as there are a couple of blogspot blogs that don’t seem to have an RSS feed, but I can get notification that they have been updated via this mechanism – it also enables Kristen to read the blogs without an rss reader too.
I didn’t realise that after I moved servers with my new host, the path to imagemagic changed – this meant I wasn’t able to upload any pictures to the gallery. It’s fixed now by setting the path to /usr/bin instead of /usr/x11/bin
So glad I’m not alone – Avaya: IP Office Forum – Tek-Tips
Kristen had the day off so I took the day off and we went to Cincinnati. We went to Newport Aquarium in the morning and I tried to do some geocaching.
We also saw Over the Hedge. I was not sure that I wanted to see it as the commercials looked too cheesy and I enjoy the comic online so didn’t want to get disappointed by watching the film. The film was very funny but the ironic thing is that the film has been plugged by Walmart and Kroger a lot – yet the film is about the excess purchasing and food eating habits of humans. My favourite character was Hammy – the squirrel (thats squ-ir-rel).
I’ve loaded some of the pictures we took up to flickr – there are more photo’s but these ones will do to start with.