Marcel Janus's questions

I face the the following problem: We have one Windows domain with an application running in an user context of user of this domain (let's call this domain "A"). This Windows service has to print to an printserver of one or more domains (let's call this domains "B", "C" and so on) where no trust is between this domains. The Windows service is not possible to switch to another user context.

Is there anything like an proxy server that can handle the authentification to the other domains? Or did I miss another solution? Maybe I did not see the wood for the trees.

Some more background information to make things more clear:

• There are < 1000 printers on the printserves in the "B"
  • This Domain "A" is just the first domain I have to make print work
• Adding a printserver to Domain "A" is a no go

Is there a way to find out which process started a other process even after the parent process is terminated?

I tried to find something in the Win32_Process class via PowerShell but I did not find anything relevant.

Here is a part from my deployment automation script:

$SVNEXE = "$env:ProgramFiles\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe"
foreach ($element in $commandstoken) {
#$exportfile = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlPathDecode($StreamServe5RepoURI + $commandstoken[$a])
$exportfile = ($StreamServe5RepoURI + $commandstoken[$a])
$SVNRevision = $commandstoken[$a+1]
[string]$SVNCommand = "export -r $SVNRevision --force"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red $SVNCommand
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red $SVNCommand $exportfile
&"$SVNEXE" $SVNCommand $exportfile "C:\Temp\__foo\export"
$a = $a+2
}

I want to pass the svn.exe the $SVNCommand variable but the svn.exe throws an error: svn.exe : Unknown subcommand: 'export -r 2384 --force'
As far as I can see the variable expansion is working so I can not understand why the svn.exe throws this error.

I'm reading currently the Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step book to get some more insights to PowerShell.

On page 201 the author demonstrates that a filter is faster than the function with the same functionally.

This script takes 2.6 seconds on his computer:

MeasureAddOneFilter.ps1
Filter AddOne
{ 
 "add one filter"
  $_ + 1
}

Measure-Command { 1..50000 | addOne }

and this one 4.6 seconds

MeasureAddOneFunction.ps1
Function AddOne
{  
  "Add One Function"
  While ($input.moveNext())
   {
     $input.current + 1
   }
}

Measure-Command { 1..50000 | addOne }

If I run this code is get the exact opposite of his result:

.\MeasureAddOneFilter.ps1
Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 0
Milliseconds      : 226
Ticks             : 2266171
TotalDays         : 2,62288310185185E-06
TotalHours        : 6,29491944444444E-05
TotalMinutes      : 0,00377695166666667
TotalSeconds      : 0,2266171
TotalMilliseconds : 226,6171

.\MeasureAddOneFunction.ps1

Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 0
Milliseconds      : 93
Ticks             : 933649
TotalDays         : 1,08061226851852E-06
TotalHours        : 2,59346944444444E-05
TotalMinutes      : 0,00155608166666667
TotalSeconds      : 0,0933649
TotalMilliseconds : 93,3649

Can someone explain this to me?

just unboxed a brand new HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 Server. I can reach the iLO webinterface but the Server hangs on the early system initialization on 90 % with the status code 0114.

I did not find any useful Information on the hp website.

Do you know what the status code mean?

Regards, Marcel

I have a Office 365 user who has managed to move his sync issue folder to the deleted items.

Now the user is not able to use empty folder anymore because of the subfolder system folder sync issues folder in the deleted items.

Is there any know way to restore the sync issues folder to it's orginal hierarchy level. I tried outlook /resetfolders without any effect.

I have the following configuration.

Some Websites in IIS one of them with a virtual directory. This virtual directory is configured as webdav which is fully functional without any problems.

This virtual directory has the following directory structure:

\webdav
    -dir1 (ok)
    -dir2 (ok)
    -dir3 (ok)
    -dir4 (ok)
    -dir5 (virtual directory)
        -dir1 (ok)
            -dir1 (ok)
            -dir2 (ok)
            -dir3 (ok)
            -dir4 (ok)
            -dir5 (HTTP Error 500)
        -dir2 (ok)
        -dir3 (ok)

Any directory is accessible without any problem except of dir5. If I try to acces this directory I get an HTTP error 500. Here is what the IIS logfiles contains:

2013-01-08 21:17:03 W3SVC2 WEB XXX.XX.XXX.XXX PROPFIND /WebDav/dir5/dir1/dir5 - 443 - XXX.XX.XXX.XXX HTTP/1.1 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/6.1.7601 - - www.example.com 500 50 183 1397 204 78

I can not explain me why I get this error for this directory.

we have a customer who is not willing to move from Office 2003 to Office 2010 but he now wants to use Office 365. As you know is Office 365 not compatible with Outlook 2003.

Now he asked me if it's possible to buy and install Outlook 2010 and keep the rest as it is.

I only found some guides for parallel installation of Office 2007 and Office 2010.

So my question is if this solution will work. Or are there any issues known?

I'm looking for a robust way to determine if a service can be stopped without data loss or corruption, or if a regular stopping will work if the service can be killed via powershell.

I thought about to watch the file handles for the service to see if the service is writing or reading something from there working directory. Is there something else I can query via powershell to see if the service is still processing data.

I'm new in charge of a server running Windows SBS 2003 with SP 2. First thing after I got in charge of the system was to update the old WFBS 3.7 to the current version. Now the users reporting that sometimes the network connection to the server is lost and the whole PC freezes up. I found the following in the event log:

Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7011
Description: Timeout (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for a transaction response from the NtFrs service.

After some searching I found the recommendation to turn of smart scan for the clients in WFBS. But this was not the solution for the problem.

One other thing what I found is to increase the LAN Autodisconnect parameter as described here

But I'm not sure of the implications and negative effects of increase this parameter.

Dose someone have any experience with altering this parameter. Any other recommendations?

In the awstats.model.conf sampel file they say:

The config file must be in /etc/awstats, /usr/local/etc/awstats or /etc (for Unix/Linux) or same directory than awstats.pl (Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux...)

My awstats.www.mydomain.com.conf is in the same directory as the awstats.pl but when I run awstats_updateall.pl now I get this error message:

Error: Can't scan directory /etc/awstats.

Anyone any idea?

Regards, Marcel