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How to auto-restart Windows Service upon failure

Feb 20

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Microsoft | No Comments

Windows-service recovery from failure

Windows-service recovery from failure

If you're one of those who is administering Windows as a web-server administrator or as a windows admin and you need to take some action upon failure of your windows-service then right click on service for which you want to set recovery go to "Properties > Recovery" and choose action for First, Second and Subsequent failures of the service.

Here we have following choices:

Take No Action: Generally the default action unless modified for any non-windows service we or other programs might have created. For crucial services like web-server (apache or IIS), we usually would like to take some actions instead of doing nothing.

Restart the Service: The best option for 90% of the services which don't required restart of computer and you still want that windows-service to get started again, then choose this option.

Run a Program: I believe this option can either help you draw user's attention (as service runs in the background) by popping-up some alert message or to either writing some logs and then manually restarting that service via that program or there can be any other possibility which I don't know. Read the rest of this entry »

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Speed up PC startup with Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software

Feb 13

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Software | No Comments

Soluto: Anti-Frustration Software

Soluto: Anti-Frustration Software

If you're one of those frustrated with sluggish PC startup then you should consider trying Soluto Beta. Soluto is an Anti-Frustration Software, which will help you easily view and remove unwanted items from the system startup and see what action other users in the community have taken for particular startup item.

With Soluto, we will have choose to Pause or Delay startup items, Pause will remove item from the startup still keeping in the registry, so that in future if you want you can queue them up and Delay will delay the startup item so that those services/processes will be little later after your startup which gives you quick access to the usable desktop/windows machine.

Basically their user interface is great as it shows you items in graphical way with amount of time you're saving by removing the startup items. Read the rest of this entry »

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Windows Terminal Server and User Auto Log-Off for RDP

Jul 11

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Microsoft | 6 Comments

If you are one who has ever faced issues due to people disconnecting from the Windows Terminal Server (RDP) and not logging off? Then here is a small change you can make and it will auto-log-off Users after specific interval of disconnection.

User > Properties > Session

User > Properties > Session

Open Local Users and Groups, select User and then right click and open Properties window. Click on Sessions tab. It will show up screen similar to one above. Change "End a disconnected session: <N>" to specific time you want after which a disconnected User Session will be logged off.

So basically this is a small trick to avoid issues while Users tends to forget to log-off their sessions.

I have faced problems in the past when maximum limit for Users to connect comes to an end and you don't have any choice but to Restart the server, even "mstsc /console" don't work..! I had such experience with one of the dedicated Windows server on 1and1.com.

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This download has been blocked by your security zone policy

Oct 25

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers, Firefox | 4 Comments

I would like to post one wired and interesting issue I faced before few days.

Recently I was deploying one of my project on client end. Basically it was a Web Application but unlike other setups they were going to use that by terminal access. Meaning that all Users of the Portal will be having unique login into their(client's) Windows Network Domain and users will be logging into the Portal by logging into the Server machine first with given Windows domain credentials and then to the Portal.

This setup seems to be easy and no worry as whole portal will be accessed via LOCALHOST only..! Looks odd for any web-application though but that was the requirement for the client (keeping their security concerns in mind).

I have been given Administrative User to login to the server machine and setup everything. I did setup and did my post implementation testing on the machine with my user. Everything seems to be working as expected and I gave green flag to my superior.

Later on I have been buzzed with 2 issues from the Client.

  1. Portal is not working in Internet Explorer at all.
  2. Users are not able to download files from my Portal.

I asked for login details they used for testing and which they were actually going to give to their Users.

Problems & their Solutions: Read the rest of this entry »

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