I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with MsMpEng.exe using a large amount of resources, like 100% CPU time or a lot of memory.  The system will work just fine, even after running for hours, when suddenly the system slows to a [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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)

I setup my share right, followed all the instructions, set the /etc/pam.conf entry.  Couldn’t get into my share, and my password wouldn’t work.
I found that you can test your PAM mapping like so:
smbutil login –c username
But that gave me:
Keychain entry not found.
 
Ok, had to do a little searching…  found out that you can SET THE [...]

This is one of several, little, quick notes about OSOL config. I have done several installs now, and each time I forget some of the little things.  That’s what a Blog is for though, right?  There are lots of sites describing this online, so it’s not tough to find.  I just wanted to find it [...]

Just a few quick notes on the ZFS CIFS sharing.
Check the /etc/pam.conf has the smb line:
other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn
If not, add that to the end of the file.  If you, check /var/smb/smbpasswd you should also see a line for your account with [...]

I am testing Windows 7 Pro on my laptop and wanted to decide if I can get by with that instead of Ultimate.  Well, my time is running out and I need a couple day to backup everything before I change it.  So…  I need to “rearm” the activation system.
Go to the start menu, and [...]

Go to C:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries.

helpsvc.exe /regserver /svchost netsvcs /rainstall

Run that.
Now we have Help and Support available again.

Notes to self:
Install your system to a PARTITION, NOT the whole drive.  I seem to remember reading somewhere that this was required.
My system had 2 disks.  rpool was setup on disk 0.  (those are ZERO’s not O’s.)
c8t0d0s0  (disk 0 with rpool)
c8t1d0s0   (disk 1 we want to mirror)
After installed and booted into new system…  (as [...]

This is just another one of those things that didn’t make any sense and only partially does now. At least NOW I know there is more at play here than the simple solutions in Samba using create mask and create directory mask. In Linux, that’s how I would get around the issues of [...]

Not too often would you need this, but I just ran into a situation where it was handy to get AD off an existing, but inactive, domain controller.  I couldn’t get dcpromo to uninstall the services and demote the darn thing, because this server thought it was still active in the domain.  I had physically [...]

I’ve moved a few virtual machines off of both ESXi and VMWare Server recently. (was testing VMWare, which I do like.) I moved them into VirtualBox while I test OpenSolaris, which I am REALLY liking… but off topic. Anyway, once I got the vmdk hard drive files copied, I created a new machine [...]

When you run mstsc.exe, the Remote Desktop Connection client to connect to a virtual machine VRDP or other RDP connections, it’s not exactly clear how to enter the CTL+ALT+DEL keystroke to login. Do this:
CTL+ALT+END
:)

This is a pain. For some reason, unkown even to Microsoft aparently, I reboot my system only to login to a temporary profile in Windows Vista or Windows 7.   As of this writing, I am using the release candidate of Windows 7, but since I’ve seen this on Vista and even on Windows XP, [...]