Firewall Logging is Useful to verify if newly added firewall rules are working or not, to identify malicious activity, and to determine if the firewall is dropping packet which causes application failures.
By default, the Firewall log is disabled.
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How to Exceed the 4 vCPU limit for VM’s on Hyper-V
Many times I was asked for the way to exceed the limitation of 4 virtual processors assigned to a virtual machine for Windows Server 2008 R2.
I guess there is still many Windows Server 2008 hyper-visor running on a physical server which has much more cores, Although It is very limiting, but I will not recommend you to modify productions VM’s setting to exceed the limit.
How to Edit the Registry when operating system fail to boot
Edit the Registry on a Secondary Drive
When the Operating system fail to boot because of registry errors, and you need to access the registry in order to fix the error!! more …
Forefront TMG flood attack mitigation
Forefront TMG – flood attack
Forefront TMG protect your system from flood attack, flood attack are attempts by malicious users to attack a network, by http denial of service attack, SYN attack, worm propagation.
The default TMG configuration setting for flood mitigation set to ensure that Forefront TMG can continue to function under a flood attack; there are some actions you can take during an attack that can further mitigate its effect.
Recover Visual SourceSafe Password
Many times my customers are asking for possibility to recover VSS Admin password, most of the time they have old VSS server nobody touch it for quite some time and now they want to search for some code but nobody can remember Admin password.
Transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server
Transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server
backup databases and restored it into new instances or database server quite easy, but the challenge is how to move the logins and password?
SQL Server backup
SQL Server backup Using Management Studio and Transact-SQL
How to create a full database backup in SQL Server 2008 R2 by using SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL, As a database increases in size full database backups take more time to finish and require more storage space. Therefore, for a large database, you might want to supplement a full database backup with a series of differential database backups.
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 -Undo Someone Else’s Check Out
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 -Undo Someone Else’s Check Out
As a VSS administrator from time-to-time you may asked to undo someone else’s checked out file for many reasons; The person may left the company on vocation and he checked out these files in Visual Source Safe (VSS), but did not check them back in. As a result, Visual Studio won’t let others to make any changes to these files.
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