SBS
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Windows 10 VPN before login for domain users
How to create a VPN connection before logging in to Windows 10 I just thought I’d post a quick help guide for those struggling with remote sites that have no site-to-site VPN. For whatever reason the site has no VPN, you can get new users logged into a domain by connecting to the VPN before log on. The situation I’ve been looking after a site that has remote users and due to the fact the remote office is shared with other companies, it is not possible to set up a site-to-site VPN. In the past, we have set up new computers at the head office, got the user to log-in…
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MMC cannot open the file
MMC cannot open the file Today I had a problem with a server running Windows 2008 R2 and HyperV. We were unable to get into the HyperV manager and had an error “MMC cannot open the file C:\Windows\system32\virtmgmt.msc”. In order to resolve this, I simply renamed the file virtmgmt to virtmgmt.old in the folder :
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Event ID 1500 1501 application event log spwebapp
I have just been looking at a problem with IIS (OWA outlook web access and sharepoint http://companyweb were not responding) and remote access to the RDS server had stopped. The application event log was full of event ID 1500 and 1501 for the user spwebapp. The Windows SBS 2011 is running Exchange/OWA and IIS and has the remote gateway configured to redirect to the RDS server. I restarted the remote gateway service which fixed the remote access problem. The next problem was OWA and Company web not responding. I restarted IIS by running the IISreset from an admin command prompt but this didn’t change anything. As you can see the event were happening frequently…
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Windows SBS 2008 server out of disk space
I’ve been seeing a lot of Windows 2008 SBS servers running out of disk space lately on the C drive. This causes Exchange to stop working due to the “back pressure” feature, which has been the first clue to the problem. After a bit of searching I found several area’s where log files can grow. The 4 main area’s I found are : Active Directory Certificate Services IIS Log Files SBS Data Collector log (DataserviceComponents.log) Sharepoint SQL logs I found a great script at SBSfaqs (http://www.sbsfaq.com/?p=1598) and updated the script to include all 4 points above and be able to select which options to run. You will need to save the…