Windows Server 2012, VMware ESXi, and Strange Permissions Errors – Removable Storage Auditing what?

Posted on April 8, 2013 Written by  3 Comments  

I’ve been getting ready to roll out Windows Server 2012 to be used for new production hosts, and one of the first machines I tried to deploy was a web server. I created my VM, installed Windows 2012, got IIS all set up. This web site was to be used for uploading and serving files, so I added a data disk and put the web site on this drive. The web app runs on Perl so I installed that, configured it, and no matter what I kept getting 500.19 errors. I don’t set up Perl all that often on IIS, and I thought for sure that it must have been some quirk in the process that I was missing.

Instead it turned out to be an unholy combination of factors with the way that VMware presents disk drives to Windows and how Windows 8 / Server 2012 handles removable drives. It effects things other than IIS too. The symptoms are strange, the errors are unhelpful, and the fixes aren’t obvious.

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Missing Computers in ESET NOD32 Remote Install Tab

Posted on December 23, 2012 Written by  You can be the first to comment here.  

The ESET Remote Administrator Console hasn’t caused me much grief over the years when it comes to pushing out installations. Recently I was helping a client upgrade the workstations to version 5 of NOD32, now called ESET Endpoint Antivirus, or ESET Smart Security (they sure know how to pick catchy names). Things seemed to be going fine when I noticed that at least 2 computers were not in the Remote Install tab’s computer list.
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Hide Pages from the 404 Page in a Genesis WordPress Theme

Posted on November 23, 2012 Written by  4 Comments  
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If you run your Wordpress blog on the wonderful Genesis Framework (as I do), then you know that the 404 page is pretty nice out of the box. It gives the user a way back to the homepage, and lists of Pages and Posts and all kinds of ways to get … [Continue reading]

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DFS: Properties cannot be set on the namespace server – Access is denied

Posted on November 16, 2012 Written by  You can be the first to comment here.  
Properties cannot be set on the namespace server - Access is denied

I ran across a strange problem the other day with DFS. I needed to override the referral ordering for a namespace server, but the change wouldn't take. I got a status of Error during the "Commit changes." task. In the detail, it showed "Properties … [Continue reading]

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Use jTDS NTLM Authentication in Confluence with SQL Server

Posted on November 5, 2012 Written by  7 Comments  

I run Atlassian's Confluence in several organizations. It's a great product and runs on many platforms. Being a Windows admin I tend to stick to the existing Microsoft stack where possible, so I typically run Confluence on Windows against Microsoft … [Continue reading]

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Send Mail to Multiple Recipients with Ruby & Pony

Posted on October 22, 2012 Written by  1 Comment  

One of my favorite ways to send mail from Ruby is through the Pony gem. If you haven't used it, it's definitely worth a look. I recently found the need to send mail to multiple recipients, and I couldn't figure out how based on their documentation. … [Continue reading]

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