Tuesday, 27 April 2010

ITIL v3 Foundation - Passed!

VZVolumeMount Parallels Virtuozzo Error

I was encountering an error:

C:/vzctl start Starting VPS ...


Virtuozzo API function call 'VZVolumeMount' failed err = 183Virtuozzo API function call 'dq_mount' failed

Cannot set disk quota for VPS This happened to be the service container bringing the entire node down... This error occurs whern vzagent cannot calculate the size of the .edf file and/or the quota for the container.
 
To fix this, manually set the quoaa on the container in question:
 
vzquota setlimit [ct id] -B -–drive C:
 
This sets the ct quota manually, and with:
 
vzctl start --skiplock
 
Should start the container sucessfully.

Rebuild Parallels Virtuozzo Service Container

If you're service containers currupts or has pretty much any issues - inc no connection to PIM or PMC the easiest way is to rebuild the service container:

Firstly, check that services.cpl is closed

CMD 

net stop ipnat
net stop sharedaccess
net stop policy agent


vzsveinstall -s [ip address of service container] -w -f

Within the concole it will provide a step by step menu of commands

Friday, 16 April 2010

GPO's

Looking at domain wide GPOs today.

The picture below can describe exactly what i've done:

Find Open Ports on XP/7/03/08

netstat -a  | Displays all connections and listening ports

netstat -e | Displays all ethernet stats

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Monday, 12 April 2010

GPupdate Tags

A few useful Tags....

[/Force]
Causes all policy settings to be reapplied, not just the changed settings.

[/Wait:nnn]
If you omit this switch, the maximum wait time to complete the processing, and proceed to the next command, is 600 seconds. A nnn of 0 eliminates any wait, while an nnn of -1 will wait until policy processing is finished. If the wait time is exceeded, the next command is processed, but policy processing continues in the background.

[/Logoff]
This switch will log you off when policy processing finishes. It should be used if you apply a policy that is only applied during logon, like Folder Redirection. If no such policy was applied, the switch is ignored.

[/Boot]
This switch will restart the computer, if you apply a policy that can only be applied during startup, like computer-targeted Software Installation. If no such policy was applied, the switch is ignored.

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Server 2008 sp2 Hanging on "Preparing your Desktop"

This is casuing me some serious chimp ball ache...

For some reason, when running in terminal services, Server 08 sp2 enterprise "lags" on "Preparing your deskop" when logging in:



So much so, the mouse even stop working! Then, after about 30 seconds, it "unfreezes" and displays the desktop as usual...  weird.

This happens with all levels of users, from admins to standard users.. but only within teminal services.

To be continued...I hope!