February 2008 - Posts

• Windows Server 2008 SMTP Service logging tip

  I was working on deploying a Windows Server 2008 x64 edition and discovered the SMTP Service wasn't logging. SMTP was working and emails were going out. My install is 'custom' and installs just the modules we needed. Turns out, there is a small dependency...(read more) Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 1:50 AM from Steve Schofield Weblog | 1 Comments Filed under: SMTP

• Logparser - look for certain IP's between a timeframe

  Here is a quick example of pulling certain ip's from the IIS Logs. 'Specific log file logparser "select top 10 count(*),c-ip from d:\wwwlogs\w3svc2\u_ex010228.log where to_time(time) between timestamp('01/01 13:50:00', 'MM/ddhh:mm:ss') and timestamp(...(read more) Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:05 PM from Steve Schofield Weblog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Logparser

• New www.iis.net is alive!

  Interested in IIS 7.0? Check out www.iis.net and it's new section. I hang out in the forums, so if you have IIS and related questions, post at http://forums.iis.net...(read more) Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:14 AM from Steve Schofield Weblog | 1 Comments Filed under: IIS

• PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool

  Interesting tool! PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/02/13/hey-admins-taking-some-of-the-pain-out-of-analyzing-perfmon-captures.aspx Download the tool from Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/PAL...(read more) Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:58 AM from Steve Schofield Weblog | (Comments Off)

• Volume Licensing 2.0 for Vista and Windows Server 2008

  Here is some links on Volume Licensing 2.0. If you are going to implement Windows Server 2008 into your environment. Plan on spending a couple of days understanding the concepts. Note, the KMS stuff is built into Windows Server 2008, so you don't have...(read more) Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:04 PM from Steve Schofield Weblog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Volume Licensing