Aug 3, 2012 Posted by newlife007

How To Disable TCP Chimney Offload, RSS and NetDMA in Windows 2008 R2

Currently ran into issues with Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010 using DAG (Database Availability Group) and failovers of the database happening for no reason. One of the suggestions is to turn off TCP Chimney Offload as well as RSS and NetDMA. How to disable TOE and RSS from the command prompt •From a command prompt (open using “Run As Administrator”) run netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled Run... read more

Jul 17, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Find a process using a port on Windows

Often there are times that you have a port in use and you find that a process is using the port you need to free up or there is a port and you just need to find out who owns it. With Windows it is as easy as using netstat and tasklist commands. Open a command prompt window and type: netstat -a -n -o The -a parameter displays all connections and listening ports, the -n parameter displays the addresses and... read more

Jun 29, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Install Tomcat 7 on Windows 7

In continuing with building a testing environment on Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 I have embarked on installing Apache Tomcat 7 on my Windows 7 desktop. First download 32 or 64 bit from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi/tomcat-7.0-doc/tomcat-7.0-doc/taglibs/migration.html.You will find the download links in the binary distributions section of the page. You will also need to make sure you have Jave... read more

Jun 28, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Using Computer Startup Scripts to Map Drives in Windows 2008 R2

Sometimes there are instances in which you need to map drives on specific servers and not all. One of the ways to accomplish this is through the use of startup scripts defined in local policy. For this need I just needed a server to map to another server resource, the G:\ drive in particular. Applies To: Windows 7,  Windows Server 2008 R2 Create the cmd script to contain the net use command to connect. In... read more

Jun 19, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Upgrading Windows 2008 R2 using DISM

Sometimes in the Enterprise environment there is a need to upgrade the version of Windows Server. With Windows 2008 R2 this is an easy task with DISM command and a KMS server. You can also use the command if you have a MAK key as well. Using DISM you can upgrade and every role, feature, app on your server will remain after the upgrade. A few caveats: You can only do upgrades. You CANNOT downgrade The... read more