Gurpreet Sachdev
December 24, 2018
Articles, Troubleshoot
Printing, registry, Troubleshoot, Windows
Though there could be numerous reasons for Print Spooler service stopping unexpectedly. Sometimes, it stops as soon as you start it or it stops (crashes) when a user gives a print command. The incident I am going to share here…
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Gurpreet Sachdev
October 13, 2018
Articles, Troubleshoot
Printing, Troubleshoot, Windows
Accessing print server remotely with an alias name or the CNAME record throws the following error: AD Object Ensure that we do not have a computer object with the Alias name. For example: If the server name is SERVER01 and its…
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Aagam Jain
September 14, 2018
Articles, Troubleshoot, Tutorials
Azure, Azure storage, Cloudquorum, Cloudwitness, failover Cluster, windows server 2016
By default communication between storage account and cluster node happens on port 443 using TLS 1.0 which is vulnerable solution and block at most the servers. If TLS 1.0 is blocked then you will get error for cloud quorum setup…
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Gurpreet Sachdev
August 8, 2017
Articles, Tutorials
Certificate, CommandLine, Nutanix
Generating and Installing certificate on Nutanix Prism is easy depending on whether you’re going to generate a self-signed certificate or import one from your Certificate Authority. Below are the highlight of the steps for generating and installing certificate on Nutanix…
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Aagam Jain
July 17, 2017
Articles, Troubleshoot, Tutorials
azcopy, Azure, Azure storage, Database log shipping
As move functionality has been removed from azcopy so there is no direct command which we can use to cut blob from container and download it on server. If you want such for log shipping of Database you can use…
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Aagam Jain
July 10, 2017
Articles, Tools, Troubleshoot, Tutorials, Uncategorized
azcopy, Azure, Azure storage
Azcopy 6.0 does not support /mov. You can use script to upload the files to blob/file storage. Once the data is copied the same type of file will be deleted from source path. It also has resume functionality that means…
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Aagam Jain
June 22, 2017
Articles, Tutorials
Articles, Azure, Azure availability set, Azure storage, managed disk
Mission critical application VMs should be in an availability set with OS disks for each coming from 2 different storage accounts so that a connectivity loss to storage does not impact both machines. Same can be achieved with use managed…
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Aagam Jain
June 22, 2017
Articles
AFS, Articles, Azure, Azure storage, Tutorials
Azure file storage (AFS) supports both SMB 2.1 and 3.0 for file share access. The port 445 should be opened between source and AFS storage. There is a limitation when it uses SMB 2.1. Windows server 2008 and windows 7…
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Gurpreet Sachdev
April 27, 2017
Articles, Tutorials
CommandLine, DNS, PowerShell
The below PowerShell command finds all the CNAME records pointing to a specific A record. It is assumed that you have DNS PowerShell modules already loaded (by installing RSAT or DNS management tools) Get-DnsServerResourceRecord -ZoneName DNSZone -ComputerName DnsServer | where{$_.hostname…
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Gurpreet Sachdev
April 15, 2017
Articles, Tutorials
Azure, CommandLine, How To, PowerShell
To manage Azure infrastructure via PowerShell, we need to import the Azure RM extension in PowerShell. There are two ways: Download from the Microsoft Download Link and run the Web Platform Installer. Or, via command line: 1. Launch PowerShell…
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