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• Can I cancel a resize operation in GParted without causing data loss?

  - by Anderson Green

  I'm currently waiting for GParted to finish resizing a partition, but the progress bar is currently at 0, and it's been taking much longer than usual (perhaps an hour). Is it safe to cancel the resize operation? I don't want to wait days for the resize operation to complete, but I don't want to lose all of my files either. (Is there any way that I can simply pause the resize operation, attempt to recover files, and then resume the resize operation?) (An update: the operation has finally completed, and my files are still intact!)

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• How to troubleshoot Hyper-V VSS writer causing backup failure on Server 2008 R2

  - by Tim Anderson

  I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine running Hyper-V. Backups using Windows Server Backup fail with the error: The backup operation that started at '?2011?-?01?-?02T10:37:01.230000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348129'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved. I have traced this to a problem with the Hyper-V VSS writer. vssadmin list writers reports: Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer' Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de} Writer Instance Id: {fcf0dd79-d282-4465-88ae-7b6857e055c2} State: [8] Failed Last error: Inconsistent shadow copy However I can't get any further. A few relevant facts: I get the error even if all the VMs are shut down If I disable the Hyper-V VSS Writer by stopping the Hyper-V Management Service backup completes OK There are no errors in the Hyper-V-VMMS application log I tried to set tracing for VSS but can't get any output for some reason. I set the correct registry entries but no trace log is generated. Tim

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• Setup a new domain controller over a temporary VPN, but now Windows delays startup?

  - by Kris Anderson

  I'm migrating servers from colo locations to Amazon's VPC EC2 instances. If anyone hasn't worked with Amazon VPC before, VPN is a pain in the arse! Anyways, I setup a new server that acts as the domain controller for our Amazon VPC. In order to migrate all the user accounts from our existing domain controllers I manually connected to our colo VPN using my user account on the new Amazon EC2 machine. I was able to join the domain and the new Amazon server became another domain controller on our network. So far so good. The problem I'm having is that when booting the EC2 domain controller (which is no longer connected to the VPN so it can't communicate with the existing controllers), it takes a good 6-8 minuted before I can remote into the server (instead of the 1-2 minutes it should take). Also, during this time most of the services we also run (like IIS) also give 404 errors until the 6-8 minutes have passed. It's almost like the domain controller is attempting to reach the other domain controllers first and after 6-8 minutes it falls back to the one located on the local machine? I don't think that's what's happening though, because Server 2008 R2 doesn't have primary and backup domain controllers. They're all equal as far as Windows is concerned. For my network adapter I have only one DNS listed, 127.0.0.1, so it should be looking up the local domain controller and not the other domain controllers it connected to over VPN when VPN was enabled. In the server logs I'm seeing these warnings pop up during a reboot: The winlogon notification subscriber is taking long time to handle the notification event (CreateSession). The winlogon notification subscriber took 409 second(s) to handle the notification event (CreateSession). Any ideas on what's happening here? I would try removing the existing domain controllers from the new Amazon EC2 machine, but I still need to connect over VPN a few times to migrate some data between the servers, and I don't want that change being reflected back to the other domain controllers in our colo locations.

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• How to backup/restore OSX Parental Controls before/after complete reimage?

  - by Jim Anderson

  We typically "nuke and pave" users Mac OSX laptops if they have software issue. Prior to doing so, we backup the primary (non-admin) user's home folder. Our standard image has four accounts: Admin (uber admin user); Parent (admin account for the parents of students); Loaner (so our standard image will also work for our loaner laptop pool); Student (this is the primary, non-admin user of the laptop) Our standard image has only minimal Parental controls on the Loaner and Student accounts. Some parents choose to tighten the parental controls. We never know when parents have made changes to parental controls, or what those changes are. Once we have reimaged the machine with our standard image (minimal parental controls) we would like to be able to restore any custom parental controls parents may have placed on their student's account. Any help in this would be appreciated. Thanks.

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• MSSQL Auditing Recomendations

  - by Josh Anderson

  As an aspiring DBA, I have recently been asssigned the task of implementing the tracking of all data changes in the database for a peice of software we are developing. After playing with microsoft's change data capture methods, Im looking into some other solutions. We are planing to distribute our product as a hosted solution and unlimited installations would be desired for maximum scalability. Ive looked at IBM's Guardium as well as DB Audit by SoftTree. Im curious if anyone has any solutions they may have used in the past or possibly any suggestions or methods to achieve complete, and of course cost effective, auditing of data changes.

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• What is the harm in giving developers read access to application server application event logs?

  - by Jim Anderson

  I am a developer working on an ASP.NET application. The application writes logging messages to the Windows event log - a custom application log just for this application. However, I do not have any access to testing or staging web/application servers. I thought an admin could just give me read access to this event log to help in debugging problems (currently a service that is working in dev is not working in test environment and I have no idea why) but that is against my client's (I'm a consultant) policy. I feel silly to keep asking an admin to look at the event log for me. What is the harm in giving developers read access to application server application event logs? Is there a different method of application logging that sysadmins prefer programmers use? Surely, admins don't want to be fetching logging messages for developers all the time.

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• Sas/Sata raid controller with dedicated management interface?

  - by Nick Anderson

  I am looking for an internal raid controller that has a dedicated Ethernet port for management. I would really like to have operating system independent management of the raid without having to drop to BIOS. For some reason I think I have seen these in the past but cant find any for the life of me now.

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• Fax in Small Business Server 2003 fails to hang up

  - by Tim Anderson

  We have a problem with fax in SBS 2003. External modem, Courier v Everything which is a recommended model. It receives a fax OK, but then sometimes (quite often) fails to hang up. Attempts to send faxes thereafter get an engaged tone. The only fix when this happens is to reset the fax modem. Even restarting the server is not enough. We've tried with a different model modem, same problem. Any ideas? Tim

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• Accessing multiple local HD's or RAID with ESXi 4.0

  - by Shawn Anderson

  How to I get additional HD's to be recognized and used by ESXi 4.0. When I purchased my system I had two 2TB HD's, but when I installed ESXi it only recognized one of them. I'm happy to get whatever number of drives that I need (I have a four bay SATA in my Dell T310). What are some options? RAID? If so, is it supported. I guess I would need hardware instead of software since ESXi is so small. The VMWare forums (where I've lived for the last two days) are a charlie foxtrot of outdated and conflicting info. I want to utilize my T310, with 32 GB RAM, 2.8GHz quad core to run many lab Windows VM's. I don't need production level availability but I do want decent performance, even though it's in a lab environment. A huge thanks to Jim B., Zypher, Helvick, and Jeff Hengesbach who posted answers to my earlier predecessor question on why ESXi was so sluggish.

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• Is there a performance difference between Cat5 and Cat6 keystone blocks?

  - by Scott Anderson

  I'm going to be wiring my home for ethernet soon, and I've already decided that I want to use Cat6 cable to do it (faster speeds, better performance, etc). During the installation, I'd like to add wall-plates to certain rooms in my house, and the keystone blocks look like the best option for me. My question is: I've seen different keystone blocks on many cabling websites, some say Cat5e and some say Cat6. The Cat6 ones are slightly more expensive. Is there any noticeable performance gain from using a Cat6 keystone? To me, it just seems like the keystone really wouldn't matter, since it's basically like putting an RJ-45 end on a cable. Can I buy the cheaper Cat5e keystone blocks and still have the performance that Cat6 cable will give me? Thanks!

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• Bash script getting automatically deleted from Ubuntu 12.04 Server?

  - by Kris Anderson

  I'm running a bash script on an ubuntu 12.04 through cron. The script works fine for a few weeks (runs daily backups of websites, mysql databases, and copies to Amazon S3). However, twice now I've noticed that backups stopped happening. Both times the backup script (backupscript.sh) located in my home folder was no longer there. No one else has access to this server, so nothing was manually changed on the server and no one deleted the file by mistake. The cron job (nano /etc/crontab) still references this script, but the script itself disappears. What could cause this to happen? Does Ubuntu delete the script if it runs into some sort of error?

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• Under what circumstances might an IIS6 website be automatically deleted?

  - by E. Anderson

  Late last week my colleagues did some hardware maintenance on one of our vmWare esxi servers. One of the guests is a Windows Server 2003 Web Edition system that runs our low-traffic web sites. We discovered this morning that one of those websites was no longer working with what appeared to be an SSL error. After logging in, I found that the web site in question had been deleted from IIS! Is it possible for this to happen without a user actually going in and deleting that single web site? All of the other sites were fine. The files for the site in question had not been touched. I just re-created the web site, assigned the SSL cert, and everything was working again. When I logged in, I did see the 'Unexpected Shutdown' dialog.

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• SharePoint 2010 and Excel Calculation Services

  - by Cj Anderson

  I'm curious what the requirements are for Excel Calculation Services in Sharepoint 2010. I found an architecture document but it doesn't list out the specific requirements. (architecture I understand that you can install all the services on one server but it isn't recommended. It then talks about how you can scale up the application servers, and web front ends. What should the hardware look like for both the application server and web front ends? Do I need to setup a standalone box for each application server?

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• is there a GOTCHA - DBCC CHECKDB ('DBNAME', NOINDEX)?

  - by Deb Anderson

  I am turning on DBCC CHECKDB in our OLTP environment (SQL 2005,2008). System overhead is a very visible thing on our serversso I want them to be as efficient as it makes sense for them to be. HENCE - I want to turn on the NOINDEX option, an option I've never used before. My thoughts are these: if there is a problem with an index that is detected outside the integrity check, that I can just rebuild the index. Also the duration of the integrity checks will be drastically reduced, and the nastier corruption will be detected. What is the flaw in my plan? Thanks, Deb

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• Create a dependent drop down list in a single cell in Excel

  - by Larry Anderson

  I am trying to create a dependent drop down list for a High School. The User will select cell A1, Click on Hallway 3(for example), then the user will click on cell A1 again and then select the Room #, 325 (for example). The final result should be that cell A1 shows 325. I can create the first drop down list, but the second part is where I am having great trouble. I am using Excel 2010. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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• Exchange 2007 automatically adding IP to block list

  - by Tim Anderson

  This puzzled me. We have all mail directed to an ISP's spam filter, then delivered to SBS 2008 Exchange. One of the ISP's IP numbers suddenly appeared in the ES2007 block list, set to expire in 24 hours I think, so emails started bouncing. Quick look through the typically ponderous docs, and I can't see anything that says Exchange will auto-block an IP number, but nobody is admitting to adding it manually and I think it must have done. Anyone know about this or where it is configured? Obviously one could disable block lists completely but I'd like to know exactly why this happened.

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• Exchange 2007 automatically adding IP to block list

  - by Tim Anderson

  This puzzled me. We have all mail directed to an ISP's spam filter, then delivered to SBS 2008 Exchange. One of the ISP's IP numbers suddenly appeared in the ES2007 block list, set to expire in 24 hours I think, so emails started bouncing. Quick look through the typically ponderous docs, and I can't see anything that says Exchange will auto-block an IP number, but nobody is admitting to adding it manually and I think it must have done. Anyone know about this or where it is configured? Obviously one could disable block lists completely but I'd like to know exactly why this happened.

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• PHP splitting arrays into groups based on one field's value

  - by Dan

  I have an array containing arrays of names and other details, in alphabetical order. Each array includes the first letter associated with the name. Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => a [1] => Alanis Morissette ) [1] => Array ( [0] => a [1] => Alesha Dixon ) [2] => Array ( [0] => a [1] => Alexandra Burke ) [3] => Array ( [0] => b [1] => Britney Spears ) [4] => Array ( [0] => b [1] => Bryan Adams ) ) I'd like to display them grouped by that first initial, eg: A - Alanis Morissette Alesha Dixon Alexandra Burke B - Britney Spears Bryan Adams etc... Is this at all possible?

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• Sorting based on existing elements in xslt

  - by Teelo

  Hi , I want to sort in xslt based on existing set of pattern . Let me explain with the code: <Types> <Type> <Names> <Name>Ryan</Name> </Names> <Address>2344</Address> </Type> <Type> <Names> </Name>Timber</Name> </Names> <Address>1234</Address> </Type> <Type> <Names> </Name>Bryan</Name> </Names> <Address>34</Address> </Type> </Types> Right now I m just calling it and getting it like (all hyperlinks) Ryan Timber Bryan Now I don't want sorting on name but I have existing pattern how I want it to get displayed.Like Timber Bryan Ryan (Also I don't want to lose the url attached to my names earlier while doing this) I was thinking of putting earlier value in some array and sort based on the other array where I will store my existing pattern. But I am not sure how to achieve that.. My xslt looks like this now(there can be duplicate names also) <xsl:for-each select="/Types/Type/Names/Name/text()[generate-id()=generate-id(key('Name',.)[1])]"> <xsl:call-template name="typename"> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:template name="typename"> <li> <a href="somelogicforurl"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </a> </li> </xsl:template> I am using xsl 1.0

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• R matrix handling expressions aren't evaluated in a function or a "for" loop - Column extract doesn't seem to work

  - by Sal Leggio

  I have an R matrix named ddd. When I enter this, everything works fine: i <- 1 shapiro.test(ddd[,y]) ad.test(ddd[,y]) stem(ddd[,y]) print(y) The calls to Shapiro Wilk, Anderson Darling, and stem all work, and extract the same column. If I put this code in a "for" loop, the calls to Shapiro Wilk, and Anderson Darling stop working, while the the stem & leaf call and the print call continue to work. for (y in 7:10) { shapiro.test(ddd[,y]) ad.test(ddd[,y]) stem(ddd[,y]) print(y) } The decimal point is 1 digit(s) to the right of the | 0 | 0 0 | 899999 1 | 0 [1] 7 The same thing happens if I try and write a function. SW & AD do not work. The other calls do. D <- function (y) { + shapiro.test(ddd[,y]) + ad.test(ddd[,y]) + stem(ddd[,y]) + print(y) } D(9) The decimal point is at the | 9 | 000 9 | 10 | 00000 [1] 9 Why don't all the calls behave the same way?

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• Cannot start serial over lan on iDrac6

  - by Bryan Agee

  I have a couple of Dell R610/R710 servers loaded with iDrac6 system management boards. I figured out how to log into the SM CLP with ssh. According to the dell documentation, I should be able to start a console session by running: start /system1/sol1 but I get the following failure message: cmdstat status : 3 status_tag : COMMAND EXECUTION FAILED job job_id : 12 joberr errtype : 1 errtype_desc : Other cimstat : 6 cimstat_desc : CIM_ERR_NOT_FOUND severity : 2 severity_desc : Low /system1/sol1 started FAILED at Sun Sep 16 00:20:58 2012 I have enabled the serial-over-lan via the web interface and rebooted, but nothing seems to make them available.

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• Create files on C:\ root gives error 0x80070522

  - by Bryan

  One of our customers has just found a problem when trying to create a file on the root of the C:\ Drive, on a Windows 7 Professional PC. I know they shouln't be keeping files here, but there is a valid reason in this case, so I've relaxed the security on the root of C:\ by giving the group 'users' modify permission. Before I relaxed the security, the user was receiving 'access denied', but now they are receiving the message: An unexpected error is keeping you from creating the file. If you continue to recieve this error, you can use the error code to search for help with this problem. Error 0x80070522: A required priviledge is not held by the client. Googling for this suggests that it is caused by UAC, but how can I get round this when the user doesn't have admin rights on their PC?

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• ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert with Commercial CA-based client certificate

  - by Bryan

  Attempting to implement client authentication with an SSL cert. http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_howto.html#auth-selective Receive the following errors. Apache: Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client!? Firefox: ssl_error_handshake_failure_alert I assume it is a configuration error, but have not been able to locate it. Additional info: Commercial CA server cert servers secure works without problem in Apache 2.2 & Passenger. Only client authentication related directives do not work.

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• Windows XP Domain Logon takes between 40 - 60 minutes

  - by Bryan

  Windows XP Clients, fully patched, with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 client Windows 2008 R2 domain Roaming profiles Folder Redirection applied to Documents, AppData & Desktop I've enabled userenv logging, and logged on just after 17:00 last night. The user shell hadn't appeared at 17:45 when I left last night. When I arrived this morning, I checked the log file and found the following. USERENV(3f8.e7c) 17:02:18:296 LogExtSessionStatus: Successfully logged Extension Session data USERENV(654.a30) 17:04:09:468 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5. USERENV(654.a30) 17:04:09:468 GetUserNameAndDomain Failed to impersonate user USERENV(654.a30) 17:04:09:468 GetUserDNSDomainName: Domain name is NT Authority. No DNS domain name available. USERENV(c8c.cb8) 17:04:09:781 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(cd0.cd4) 17:04:10:781 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(d08.c84) 17:07:09:609 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(cbc.cc0) 17:07:10:625 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\luall.exe USERENV(db0.db4) 17:07:10:781 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(e00.e0c) 17:07:11:062 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(e20.e34) 17:07:11:203 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(e40.e50) 17:07:11:406 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(efc.54c) 17:07:11:656 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(ccc.df0) 17:08:45:687 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(e24.e20) 17:08:45:937 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\luall.exe USERENV(ff0.ff4) 17:08:46:078 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(32c.cd0) 17:08:46:265 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(cc4.3d4) 17:08:46:406 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(434.4d0) 17:08:46:593 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(f2c.ac) 17:08:46:828 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(d60.d7c) 17:09:40:265 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(d94.d98) 17:09:40:531 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(bc4.3c4) 17:10:52:765 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(37c.90c) 17:10:52:984 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\luall.exe USERENV(580.540) 17:10:53:109 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(c18.c30) 17:10:53:312 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(c44.288) 17:10:53:468 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(a34.cf4) 17:10:53:656 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(d3c.d4c) 17:10:53:890 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\LuCallbackProxy.exe USERENV(970.948) 17:15:09:468 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(150.9dc) 17:15:09:734 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(f90.cec) 17:20:38:718 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(d8c.d70) 17:20:38:984 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(9a0.fa0) 17:26:07:953 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(844.51c) 17:26:08:218 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(d00.9ac) 17:31:19:453 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(ad4.624) 17:31:19:718 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(654.694) 17:31:46:390 ImpersonateUser: Failed to impersonate user with 5. USERENV(654.694) 17:31:46:390 GetUserNameAndDomain Failed to impersonate user USERENV(654.694) 17:31:46:390 GetUserDNSDomainName: Domain name is NT Authority. No DNS domain name available. USERENV(af8.610) 17:36:48:625 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(aa4.dfc) 17:36:48:906 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(2dc.5c8) 17:42:17:812 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(f70.8ac) 17:42:18:078 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(d50.c30) 17:47:47:062 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(c2c.c3c) 17:47:47:328 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(ef0.4cc) 17:53:16:234 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(cd4.c84) 17:53:16:500 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE USERENV(828.8c4) 17:58:45:484 LibMain: Process Name: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\SescLU.exe USERENV(a24.b30) 17:58:45:750 LibMain: Process Name: C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE I've seen posts suggesting that it may be Windows Desktop Search 3.01 that is causing this, so I've removed that. I've removed the policy, 'Always wait for the network at startup or logon', thinking that might have helped. I'm running out of ideas. Has anyone seen this before?

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• Server 2003 R2 doesn't allow logon after a few days of uptime

  - by Bryan

  We have a server 2003 R2 standard (which I'll refer to as SRV01) that's knocking on a bit now, but it still acts as a file, print and SQL server on our company's network. SRV01 hosts user profiles, home directories and pretty much all our business data. Note our AD is currently at 2008 R2 level. This server is due to be upgraded in the next 12 months, but I've no budget to spend on it just yet. A bit of history of this server follows: When SRV01 was first commissioned, it acted as a domain controller (with the same 2003 R2 install it has today), paired with another server that ran Server 2003 R2 SBS. A few years ago, we purchased a pair of dedicated DCs (2008 R2) and at this point we decommissioned the 2003 SBS server, and SRV01 was DCPROMOed out of the AD. Up until very recently, SRV01 used to run Exchange 2003, however we've recently purchased a dedicated server for Exchange 2010 and upgraded (following Microsoft recommended upgrade path). Exchange 2003 was recently uninstalled. - Cleanly to the best of my knowledge. Ever since Exchange was removed from SRV01, I'm finding that after a few days of uptime, when I attempt to logon, pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL just hides the Welcome to Windows Server 2003 banner, and never presents the logon dialog. All I see is a moveable mouse pointer and a blank background. It's a similar story with an admin TS session, the RDP client connects and gives me a blank background, but no logon dialog is presented. The RDP session indefinitely hangs until I give up and close it. The only way I've been able to gain access to the server is to pull the plug on it. Whilst the server does have a battery backed up RAID 5 controller, I'm unhappy about having to do this, so as a temporary measure, I've created a scheduled job to reboot SRV01 each night. Not only do I not like the idea of scheduling a reboot of a server like this, but it is also causing problems for users that leave desktop PCs left logged on overnight. Users complain of 'Delayed Write Failures', and there has also been a number of users that have started to complain about account lockout problems, as well as users not able to connect to shares on SRV01 until they reboot their desktop PCs. I've examined event logs on SRV01 and on the DCs looking for clues as to what the problem is, but there really is nothing untoward being logged. How could I being to investigate this problem when nothing of any relevance is being logged? Is there some additional logging that can be enabled that might give some clues as to what could be causing this problem? Could performance monitor help me out here, and if so, what counters would you consider monitoring? It's worth mentioning that whilst the server is unresponsive via the console and TS, it does still respond to clients connecting to shares without problems for several days, but after about a week I then start to hear users reporting problems accessing shares, but this seems quite sporadic. I've also tried leaving the console logged on (and locked), when I notice I can no longer logon via TS, I can unlock the server console without problem, but it refuses to reboot/shutdown, and subsequent attempts to reboot report that a system shutdown is already in progress and the system then completely hangs. I've tried playing the waiting game for several hours thinking that a timeout might allow the shutdown to continue, but to no avail.

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