Terminal server exceeded maximum connections

Don’t you hate that message when you need to logon to a server for a few minutes to change something. This usually means someone forgot to logoff their RDP connections (actually two connections must be opened and left in a idle state), and now you need to logon to the server. Now you can go through terminal services manager, and log that user off, but sometimes you need to get on...

Running commands on remote servers

We have many citrix servers, but whenever I need to run one simple command I hate to go to all my citrix servers to run on. I wish I could just connect to one server, and access the command line for all the other server. Well you can, as I soon learned with psexec. It’s a Microsoft tool (formerly sysinternals), and you can download it here.  Below is how you use it. psexec \\RemoteComputer...

Repairing file associations

Have two versions of the same software that open the same file extension? Having trouble getting windows to open the right one. We had this same problem with Crystal reports (.rpt extension), but setting it in the file types options in windows did not work. However the bottom command worked in our citrix farm. Don’t put this is a batch file because the %1 doesn’t flow...

Send your events log to sql

Recently I had to turning on auditing on a file server. However turning on auditing was fine but what to do with the logs. The max recommended size for logs are 65Mb. However within 4 hours I was hitting that 65MB limit, and my oldest logs would start erasing. There are some tools out there that can help you, but nothing beats building your own. While I was researching how to archive my logs in a...

Print Spooler nightmares?

Got a print spooler that won’t start, or crashes everytime you start it. Well here’s a last resort fix that should bring it back up. However this will remove all printer drivers, print monitors, and printers off of the machine. If you are able to access the registry on the machine you can at least write down the name, share name, ip, and printer driver used for each of your printers...