Sep 9, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Fixing Windows 2008 R2 Activation Errors

Ran into an issue where a server lost it’s Windows activation to the KMS server. Normally just issuing slmgr.vbs /ato command it should reactivate. The following scenarios are only if you are using a KMS server in your organization. Occasionally there are errors caused by communications or settings that will cause Windows Activation to fail. The command that all license key and Windows activation is... read more

Aug 20, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Changing Windows 2003/2008 Eventlog Size

With the daily routine as a Systems Administrator for Windows and Linux systems we periodically are looking for ways to reduce disk space usage. One of the ways for Windows servers is to reduce the amount of space used by the eventlogs which can eat up alot of space. The value I am using in this example is 1024 kb, you can use any value you would like by changing the value to your liking. The method I am... read more

Aug 20, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing NVIDIA Drivers Fedora 14

Recently I was rebuilding a system with Fedora 14 which has an Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT chipset and ran into an issue in which the nouveau driver supplied by the distribution could not support some of the features I was needing. With a bit of digging in multiple places I was able to find pieces to accomplish the task at hand. In this post I will attempt to show the process I used to get Fedora 14 to use the... read more

Aug 19, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Disable NetBIOS over TCPIP with vbscript

Part of building new servers I have been creating a script to configure add and remove features added to the Windows 2008 R2 servers. The process is being handled by powershell, command scripts and vbscripts. Ran into a step to disable the WINS setting for  Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.  As with any step in the build process automation is the key to consistent builds and reduce human error. For this part I... read more

Jul 20, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Moving iTunes to Another Computer Windows 7

Recently I had to move my iPod touch to a new computer. In the past a move like this will cause iTunes to delete all the music at the first sync to the new PC, this is due to DRM. So I did a bit of digging around and found a way to move the settings and files without loosing my songs. You cannot use this to transfer your songs to someone else’s computer, this is just to move your stuff to your... read more