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Just stumbled upon: Forensic Log Parsing with Microsoft’s LogParser. Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows® operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory®.
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Sometimes you cannot delete files on an NTFS file system, for example if the file contains a space at the beginning or end, or has a reserved name. Deleting the file gives an error: “The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.“. Here’s how to fix it: use “internal” commands.
…Adsutil.vbs is a versatile and useful tool to administer IIS 6.0 servers, and everyone knows it, of course. But, did you know there is a remote server command line parameter? With this you can use Adsutil.vbs on remote Windows Server IIS 6.0 servers. The parameter is:
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The classic ASP error “cdo.message.1 error 80040220 The “SendUsing” configuration value is invalid” is an error message indicating your ASP script (website) can’t send its email out, or the IIS SMTP service is configured wrong. Here is how to fix the latter issue.
…“The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal state.” Over time, on a number of web servers (Windows 2003, IIS 6.0), with many running application pools, I noticed many – at first inexplicable – COM+ error messages.
…A quick post about an IIS 6.0 error “The tracking (workstation) service is not running“: Sometimes, after an iisreset and restarting an SSL website, the following error is displayed:
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