Max Number of Concurrent ASP Connections on IIS7

by techpilot007 29. March 2011 17:28
A little while back, November 2009, we were moving to another data center for our production servers and during the process we were upgrading from IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 to IIS7 on Widows Server 2008. We learned that in IIS7 ASP threads are limited by default to 12 concurrent threads per processor. [More]

I Expanded the Disk in Disk Manager but It Doesn't Show in Windows Explorer

by techpilot007 2. July 2010 19:55
Over the past few months I've been running out of space on a SAN drive in both the production and DR sites running Windows Server 2008. (That's one of those expensive growing pains). We put in a request to have a LUN expanded then waited. When we were given word that the LUN had been expanded I went into Disk Manager and rescanned the drives. Disk Manager saw the expanded portion of the disk. Now I needed to expand the partition. So I right clicked the drive and chose Extend Volume. [More]

Windows Server 2008 and Hibernate Option

by techpilot007 1. July 2010 23:03
By default hibernation is not available in Windows Server 2008 and for good reason. Why would you want your server go into hibernation? Well there are exceptions when you might want to use hibernation, I just can?t think of any that would involve production servers though.

In my case one of those exceptions happens to be that I use Windows Server 2008 on my laptop as the primary OS. Mostly because [More]

Where is the Disk Cleanup tool? Its missing in Windows Server 2008!

by techpilot007 21. March 2010 21:47
In our server environments we monitor a few metrics of the servers health. We have the monitoring software set to email us when any one of the metrics is measured above a predetermined threshold. At the end of last week we started to receive emails about low disk space on one of our servers in production. The server is running Windows Server 2008 x64. By default Server 2008 does not install with the handy little Disk Cleanup program. I did not know that at the time so I spent a good 15 minutes searching for it thinking I'd find it on my own. [More]

I'm still alive!

by techpilot007 14. September 2009 17:07
Where I've been and what I've been up to lately. [More]

Jeremy

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