Archive for January, 2010
Couple useful Windows Explorer shortcuts
by Greg on Jan.21, 2010, under Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
So I never took the time to look these up, but I just heard about them recently. I always wanted to know how to create a new folder in Windows Explorer without having to use menu’s, by just using a keyboard shortcut.
In the right side of the Explorer window, where you want the new folder, press your “CTL+SHIFT+N” keys. You’ll get a new folder ready to type in a new name.
Also, you can hit “CTL+N” to get a new window in the same location.
The specified server cannot perform the requested operation
by Greg on Jan.12, 2010, under Networking, Windows 7, Windows Server
I was not able to access a newly joined Windows 7 computer on our domain from our Windows 2000 Server. I just received that error. “Cannot perform the requested operation” Sharing was setup ok, permissions and security set ok, firewall was turned off. I saw an Event ID 2017 on the Windows 7 system, too. Something about “unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool”.
I found this online. Add the MaxNonpagedMemoryUsage value below in the client’s registry. (Windows 7 system) Make a restore point first so you can undo if any problems arise.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\MaxNonpagedMemoryUsage
DWORD VALUE: 0xFFFFFFFF
Next, restart the “Server” service on the Windows 7 machine. Then go back to Windows 2000 Server and try to connect to \\window7machine and see if it can access it now.
This worked great for me, hopefully it works for you too. However, it may be wise to increase that value in small increments from the default, which I THINK is 0×100000. I just maxed it out and on my client system to test, and it’s working fine. Just thought I’d make note of it. If you have further problems, or this doesn’t fix the issue, remove the value and reboot. This should return it back to the default.
Exchange 2007 Server Powershell tests
by Greg on Jan.04, 2010, under Exchange Server, Networking
Get the test commands available:
get-help test*
Should list out the tests available to you.
Test overall system health:
test-systemhealth
Check Outlook Web services:
test-outlookwebservices –identity:amailblox@organization.com | fl
(note the “fl” at the end, helps reading output, otherwise it will not wrap the lines)