Howto do some things in Windows
Hi,
its not recommended, but Windows can act as a IP Router.
To enable routing set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\IPEnableRouter to 1:
c:\>reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters /v IPEnableRouter /D 1 /f
change the startup type of the service “Routing and Remote Access” to auto
sc config RemoteAccess start= auto
and start the service
sc start RemoteAccess
Thats it
Michael
Hi,
if you want to change the IP Address (new Address is in the same subnet) a of Windows Server by a minimal downtime for the users?
In pure Active Directory domains this is not a problem because the server itself updates its A Record at the DNS server and the Active Directory replicates the entry immediately.
In large environments with a heterogeneous DNS structure the TTL of the DNS entry respectively of the DNS zone becomes very important, because the entry is cached for this time by the requesting server, so the time when the new DNS A record reaches each DNS Server can take some time.
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Hi,
when a RDP sessions hangs there are multiple ways to destroy it. The command line way:
Identify the RDP Session ID. Use quser
C:\>quser /Server:YourWindowsServer
USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME
winuser rdp-tcp#6 2 Active 3 24.09.2014 22:26
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Hi,
a Customer calls me that his Windows Clients won’t install some Updates and the boxes does not submit their update states to the WSUS Server which runs at Windows Update Server 3 SP2.
At the clients I checked the Windows Update Logfile C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log and found many errors like these:
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Hello,
Windows Server 2008 and alter version are shipped with a tool called diskshadow. This program can be used to create snapshots of disks and expose them as Folder or as DriveLetter means files are in a consistent state and you can save openfiles.
Some examples. Starting diskshadow. It accept a parameter /l for a logfile. And a Parameter /s for a (diskshadow) script file to execute. diskshadow has the same “look and feel” like diskpart 🙂 and start with a prompt:
C:\Windows\system32>diskshadow
Microsoft DiskShadow version 1.0
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation
On computer: windev, 12.06.2014 20:28:33
DISKSHADOW>
First set diskshadow in defined state with reset
DISKSHADOW> reset
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