Windows Server Clustering & PCNews - All Comments

re: How to obtain a Microsoft Hot Fix - or should you?

V.C.Dalal — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:08:55 GMT

I checked my computer with Belarc Advisor

I am informed that following Hotfix not installed. I do not knoww if they are important

or not

Q921594

Q934705

Q940601

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

Vincent — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:48:03 GMT

Thank you very much this has solved my problem as well!! I googled this page on second day by changing the key word and luckily to know kelly's corner.

re: Your Cluster won’t start and you can’t get into Cluster Administrator

Marc — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:54:47 GMT

Thought I was about to have a short and unhappy life as a cluster aware person! Thanks!

re: How to install Exchange Server 2007 Schema Extensions within a 32-bit Active Directory environment

Sumitr — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:44:38 GMT

How to install Exchange Server 2007 Schema Extensions within a 32-bit Active Directory environment that are root-DC 2 Servers and child-DC 2 Servers

For this situation root-DC (root.local) child-DC (contoso.root.local) Server that will install Exchange 2007 join to contoso.root.local

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

DW — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:09:10 GMT

Thanks a lot.

It worked great.

that is a great website

re: Expand your SAN partition on your Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 Cluster Shared Disk

AVS — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:12:19 GMT

Very very useful...

I've upgd our Veritas application Disk (clustered) with out any issue. We had a 50 GB SAN Disk and have upgd it to 150GB.

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

Janis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:20:56 GMT

It works! Thank you!

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

Pete — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:59:02 GMT

brilliant... will keep that script tucked away if it happens again...

re: A few tips for Exchange Server 2007 SCC & CCR clustered installations

Dan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:01:07 GMT

Because of the failed Active Node install, I'm reading this thread. Here's my cmdline:

(And yes, cn and cip are unique)

exsetup /newcms /cn:Mail01 /cip:x.x.x.x /css /cdp:"M:\SANDRIVE"

This still fails with the following:

An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Cluster Common Failure Exception : The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007139F)

The Store resource is "Offline" and the SA resource is "Failed". I change the Pending timeout to 1800 from 180 and then try to bring them online but they both just fail.

I've run exsetup /removecms and re-installed a few times now and still failures.

Win 2k3 ent R2 SP2 (latest WinUpdates)

Active/Passive SCC Cluster

Installing Active Node

Ex 2k7 ent

Shared Storage

-Data M:

-Logs L:

-Quorum Q:

-MNS(FileShare Witness) \\server\share

Has anyone solved this issue yet, i can't find anything on the net. If I do, I'll post back. Thanks.

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

Phillips — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:10:39 GMT

Thank You Very Much. You saved me a nervous breakdown and being late with important work. Thanks again.

re: Expand your SAN partition on your Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 Cluster Shared Disk

Zulfiqar Ali Kazmi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:54 GMT

Wonderful! This is simply amazing. I was able to extend a 1.5 TB drive in less than 1.5 secs. If you follow the instructions down to the wire then everything will work. Thanks for the wonderful instructions Rodney. Appreciate it.

Best.

Ali.

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

Joe — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:31:55 GMT

I don't know who you are mate, but I'm going to nominate you for a Sainthood.

Thanks !!

re: Exchange Server 2007 SCC/CCR lessons learned

Shridhar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:05:06 GMT

It's very good documentation stuff and should help many admins... Good experience that you shared is...

re: How to install Exchange Server 2007 Schema Extensions within a 32-bit Active Directory environment

sohail — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:22:11 GMT

How can i installed the MS Exchange server 2007 schema ext

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Captain Margaret — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:31:58 GMT

flat? it's one of my favourites!

re: What really are LooksAlive and IsAlive?

Remo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:10:43 GMT

with Failover clustering, our physicsl disk going to failed state for every isAlive() where we are copying and deleting some files. when we don't perform any deletion then the disk resource maintains online state. Could you write more details about what is happening inside isAlive() w.r.t physical disk resource.

Thanks a bunch

re: Dell Open Manage 4.4 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 - Help and Support is uninstalled

Aaron Cermak — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:24:58 GMT

The fix for Help and Support worked for me on Server 2003. I noticed it with SP1 and the problem remain after installing SP2 and R2.

Thanks

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

Danielle — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:20:08 GMT

Thank you thank you thank you!

re: To remove OEM wallpaper

ciro — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:16:07 GMT

great, finally I solved my big problem. Marvelous Tip!!! Thank you

re: Windows XP - Suddenly lost the ability to minimize programs onto the taskbar

feliCia — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:51:24 GMT

Thanks a million! Whenever I encounter this problem, I have to do a system restore. It is so annoying and it doesn't work all the time!

Ah you are my saviour!