Archive for January, 2008

exam 70-649

Monday, January 21st, 2008 No Commented
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Today I passed exam:
70-649 “TS: Upgrading Your MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, Technology Specialist” with 925 points… =)
A lot of questions about IIS 7.0 and they were easy… There were some questions about the new Terminal Services features, I didn’t get , so I have to work on that. And 1 [...]

Which service principal name are registered?

Monday, January 7th, 2008 No Commented
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Wanna know if a particular service principal name is registered?
Add the following command to a batch file (called something like “get-spns.bat”) and you get a list of SPN’s registered with a given name and which account is associated with the SPN.
ldifde -f spns.txt -s domaincontroller -r "(|(msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo=*%1*)(servicePrincipalName=*%1*))" -l msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo,servicePrincipalName
usage: get-spns.bat servername/hostheader
open up the created [...]

Wanna know which application pool is used by your application?

Sunday, January 6th, 2008 No Commented
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Some times I check if my applications are still using the proper application pools (I am not the only administrator of the IIS servers ). You can do this with the IIS GUI ofcourse but you can also use scripting (checking a lot of servers/application and application pools can be a pain in [...]

Are your assemblies from a release or debug build?

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 No Commented
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Ever wondered if the assemblies your developers gives you to install on a production server are from a release build? You can make a little C# console application to check this.