Archive for June, 2009

Disable IPV6 in Windows 2008 server or Vista

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Today while installing 2008 failover cluster I got error or notification from SQL server that two of my servers have same IPV6 address. Because I don’t use IPV6 and I have disabled it in network properties it was a bit weird to see this message.

Then I run ipconfig command that showed to me lot of Tunnel adapters that were disconnected and created automatically by Vista.

So to have painful installation of new cluster I have disabled IPV6 protocol totally.

Here is solution:

  • start run with win key + r or by start menu
  • regedit
  • go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters
  • add new dword (32bit) value DisableComponents with value 1
  • restart
  • enjoy

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How to copy IIS configuration to another server

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

In case that you ever wanted to migrate IIS from one server to another with all sites, application pools, etc. this is a very simple solution for that.

First you open Internet Information Services in mmc (Microsoft Management Console) and with right click on it you go on Backup/Restore. Create new backup, name it with something familiar and set password on it.

Now when backup is done you will see it in the list of backups.

Next step would be to open directory C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\MetaBack and find there two files with extensions MD0 and SC0. Copy these two files to some media (network, usb, floppy, etc.) and transfer them to same directory on another server.

Restore process is the same like for a backup, take Backup/Restore from Internet Information Services in mmc (Microsoft Management Console) and in the list of backups you will see your backup as well. Click on it, take restore, confirm yes that existing configuration will be deleted and write password when asked.

Voila. Now you have two identical IIS servers.

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Merge pdf files online

Friday, June 12th, 2009

If you ever have had problem that you need software to merge several pdf documents here comes online solution with name MergePDF.net.

You select files, press merge button and then you download merged file.

Easy, fast and w/o any need to buy/install other programs for doing the very same thing.

Link here and if you find this solution worthy there is Donate button on the page to support this project.

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Block Facebook quizzes and trivia

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

If you are using Facebook, it’s really hard to tell who is more dumber, people that create quizzes or those who are filling them out.

Luckily there is soultion.

Steve has wroten Facebook Purity Greasemonkey script for cleaning up Facebook from quiz and trivia, while Daniel has edited it not to block some applications as well. You need to have Greasemonkey Firefox add-on installed first to be able to use Greasemonkey scripts.

Here is Steve’s script and here is Daniel’s edited script.

Both are working like a charm and quizzes and trivia are blocked directly and only thing that you will see is one short message about blocked items like on picture bellow.

Clean Facebook

Clean Facebook

Update 2009-06-15:  Steve has asked Daniel to remove improved version of his script and he did it. Lame if you ask me, because his script blocks also some applications as well. Luckily I have a backup :-) .

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