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When setting up new servers, one of the first things to do is to make sure other machines can connect to. The easiest way to do that has typically been to use the ping command, which sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or Echo message to the remote machine. Due to security concerns, however, [...]
Quick note here describing how to find out what a connection to a Microsoft SQL Server is doing. First you need to find the connection.
Display current connections
Use the sp_who2 stored procedure to find the current connections. Use the following information to determine the connection of interest.
SPID - The ID of the connection. You will need [...]
I host my own Exchange server and had accepted the restriction that I couldn’t use the PHP mail() function thinking it was an incompatibility with IIS. It turns out, however, that my Exchange server (like most Exchange servers) requires a username and password to work.
I found a user on a forum that solved this problem [...]
Microsoft has a good article on testing an SMTP server using Telnet. I’ve summarized the steps here using the following information:
SMTP server name
mail.contoso.com
Source domain name
test.com
From email address
Admin@test.com
Recipient email address
User@domain.com
Here is the summary of commands and responses. Remember to press <ENTER> after each command.
Command
Response
telnet mail.contoso.com 25
220 site.contoso.com Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Connector <version number of the [...]
The IIS processes on my web server (w3wp.exe) have been experiencing high CPU usage lately, but only for one of my app pools - the one for my main WordPress sites. I use two ISAPI DLLs - PHP5 and Ionics Isapi Rewriter - but I am also currently using an older version of WordPress. I did a [...]
Every once in a while I do something that causes the icons on my desktop to be rearranged. Â Sometimes it’s a video card driver upgrade. Â Sometimes the OS decides that it must change the resolution for me. Â Whatever the reason, I finally had enough of it after installing the latest ATI driver on my machine. [...]
I just duplicated this site so that I can test out new versions of WordPress and test plugins and themes that either I have written or that have been written by others with real content. It took longer than I had hoped, but it still turned out to be a straightforward procedure.
I started by using [...]
It seems that much of the open source community (including WordPress) works hard to avoid Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) available on Microsoft operating systems in favor of Apache - even if they are running on a Microsoft operating system. I’ve been using Windows for a very long time and am comfortable with it and [...]
On some of my machines I noticed that I was having trouble upgrading to the latest service pack for some of the products I have installed (e.g. Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, etc.). Â It wasn’t a critical problem and I didn’t have the time to spend on tracking it down at that time so [...]
I was doing some cleanup on my server and ran across the ctfmon.exe process. I’ve investigated this process before and at that time there didn’t seem to be definitive information available on it. At one point there was even a virus that was being installed on people’s machines posing as ctfmon.exe.
When I searched today, I [...]
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