mscorsvw.exe high CPU useage
After some .NET updates you may find mscorsvw.exe using up a lot of your CPU. David goes into more detail why this happens on his blog here – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx But here is my copy and paste solution. Let this complete and mscorsvw.exe should go away! cd /d “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319” ngen.exe executequeueditems if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%==AMD64 ( cd /d […]
Varnishlog Error – _.vsm: No such file or directory
# /usr/bin/varnishlog Cannot open /usr/local/var/varnish/test-varnish/_.vsm: No such file or directory If you get this error chances are you have both a source and packaged based install. remove both of them. yum remove varnish Then go into your source directory make uninstall Then re-install varnish again from the repo yum install varnish
Install Varnish 3.0 with VSF (Varnish Security Firewall) on centos 6
Just finished setting up our cluster of varnish servers and its working nicely. Using lsyncd to replicate the varnish configs, but thats for another post. Here is a step by step on howto install varnish with VSF (Varnish Security Firewall) on centos 6. If have already installed varnish then be sure to uninstall it before […]
CleanupStartup
Here again with another script, this time to clean-up what runs on a computer. Can kill off start-up entries, services and tasks. Tasks only works from vista and above as I don’t have a XP machine to play around on. Anyways, just add to the array the names of the programs you want removed. Here […]
Cleanup Site Concentrator
Hey Guys, I’ve had a number of site concentrators not clearing the cache properly. According to http://www.allthingsmax.com/2011/12/saving-time-headaches-by-saving.html, The Site Concentrator is self-cleaning, so in 30 days or less after download, the patches, etc. will be removed from the cache path automatically. I have not found this to be the case, so have had to write […]
SBS 2003 Outlook Anywhere issues
I found this link the other day that is very handy for fixing issues with SBS 2003 Outlook Anywhere. http://www.petri.co.il/how-can-i-configure-rpc-over-https-on-exchange-2003-single-server-scenario.htm
Install Minicom on XCP
Minicom is a serial communication program. It is a Unix clone of the well-known MS-DOS Telix program. It has ANSI color, a dialing directory, dial-a-list, and a scripting language. Its handy to some times use the serial port on the Xenserver box. To install minicom run yum –enablerepo=base install minicom and then run minicom -s (for […]
XCP Security Update
XCP is Open Source Xenserver. There are some security update for it so you should run yum –enablerepo xcp –nogpgcheck update and then reboot your server for the updates to take effect. Source Hi all, I’ve just set up a yum repo for XCP 1.6. In this repo I’ve included an updated Xen hypervisor, which […]
PatchMyPC Script
I wrote this a little while ago, but for some reason I forgot to post it. Here it is 🙂 ‘—————————————————————————— ‘ PathMyPC.vbs ‘—————————————————————————— ‘ Script that will update software. ‘—————————————————————————— ‘Usage: PathMyPC.vbs /EnableWU: /AllCommon: ‘ ‘ EnableWU: This switch will run Windows updates automatically after third party updates ‘ AllCommon: This switch will install […]
Office apps ask for sharepoint password when opening files.
Problem: You are prompted to enter your user name and your password when you open a Microsoft Office document in IE. This is my documentation that I implement and this will take care of the authentication issues. however, with it comes security issues that you should relay to your users. also with firefox the reasons […]