Friday 28 May 2010

RAID

RAID 5, 1 can loose a hdd without loosing data.
3 - drives minimum

Disadvantages
- disk failure has an impact on performance.

Indepdendata data disk with distributed parity bit

Parity: A parity bit is a bit that is added to ensure that the number of bits with the value one in a set of bits is even or odd. Parity bits are used as the simplest form of error detecting code. (wiki)

http://www.sohoconsult.ch/raid/raid.html

Thursday 13 May 2010

WatchGuard - Setting up VPN Tunnel to Branch Office

Open WatchGuard System Manager
- Connect to X550e Device
- Open Policy Manager
- Click on VPN
- - Branch office gateways
--- Add gateway
--- Add tunnel

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Disable EOA (Ease of Access) on the logon screen - Windows 2008

A client connecting to my Windows Terminal Server (2008 R2) somehow managed to activate the EOA button.

After reading a million forums - I finally decided to do the following:

Took ownership on the file: c:\windows\system32\utilman.exe 

Renaming the file to utilman999.exe

Now the user don't have access to that file and it CAN'T be called up.

How annoying............

Thursday 6 May 2010

Terminal Server 2008 - Corrupt TS License Database





The terminal server license database is hold in

c:\windows\system32\lserver\

I fixed my corrupt database by stopping the licensing server, renaming lserver to lserver_old - doing a restart
Starting the terminal server licensing service - it will fail.
Then rename the lserver_old back to lserver and starting the licensing server again.