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Every Systems Administrator comes across issues from time to time that require either converting a SID to a friendly name or converting a friendly name to a SID. This can be useful in many troubleshooting or forensic activities, and there are numerous ways to approach this task. Fortunately, there are tools ...

Microsoft recently released a free copy of their well known e-book "Fundamentals of TCP/IP" which has been updated to include Windows Server 2008. We have retained a mirror of this document, which can be accessed by clicking on this link: Fundamentals of TCP/IP

After the installation of System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 RTM, you may notice the occurrence of several warnings in the Application event log on Agent-managed servers related to 32 bit ASP.Net performance counters, 64 bit ASP.Net performance counters, or both depending on the configuration of your system. The warnings ...

There is a bug in Windows 2003 SP2 which can create a vast array of mysterious network-related issues including, but not limited to: • You cannot create a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection to the server. • You cannot connect to shares on the server from a computer on the local area network. • You cannot ...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 enables the ability to create custom scripts to monitor a system for a specified value, and react accordingly based on your requirements. In order to successfully accomplish this goal, we need to complete three basic steps: Create a .vbs script to monitor the values that we're interested in and return that data to System Center Operations Manager. Create an appropriately scoped Monitor Management Pack Object to leverage the newly created script. Test the Monitor Object for the desired results. Creating a .vbs script that can interface with System Center Operations Manager 2007 requires adding only a couple of additional steps to your script : We need to make sure that the script is leveraging the MOM Scripting API. We need to make sure that we return the results of our script back to System Center Operations Manager in a manner that it can understand. '******************************************************************************* '*For more guides and scripts visit http://www.mcpguides.com '*This System Center Operations Manager 2007 Script will monitor a Windows '*Server and detect if the computer requires a reboot. '*If no reboot is required, the state will be healthy. If a reboot is required '*the state will switch to unhealthy. '******************************************************************************* '*Configure system parameters and variables Dim flgRebootNeeded, oAPI, oBAG Set oAPI = CreateObject("MOM.ScriptAPI") Set oBag = oAPI.CreateTypedPropertyBag(StateDataType) Set objSystemInfo = WScript.CreateObject("Microsoft.Update.SystemInfo") '******************************************************************************* '*Check reboot value; if objSystemInfo = 0, no reboot is required. If it = -1, '* a reboot is required. flgRebootNeeded = objSystemInfo.rebootrequired If flgRebootNeeded = 0 Then Call oBag.AddValue("State","GOOD") Else Call oBag.AddValue("State","BAD") End If Call oAPI.Return(oBag) '******************************************************************************* '*End of Script In the script above, we are monitoring a Windows Server for the "rebootrequired" flag. We are then taking the results of that flag, and passing a "GOOD" or "BAD" string, depending on the results, to a newly created System Center Operations Manager 2007 parameter called "State". Click Read On to contine....