Windows 2003 Server Archives - Creative People

October 9, 2013

Published by Chrysostomos Psaroudakis on October 9, 2013

Renew a custom IIS Certificate that is about to expire, without affecting clients

A custom (non paid) certificate is about to expiry and you are afraid that your web clients won’t be able to login, or have problems logging […]

July 26, 2011

Published by Chrysostomos Psaroudakis on July 26, 2011

Can ping server while it boots, but ping fails after start – IPSEC service loading issue.

Have seen this problem more than 10 times, but last night it was the first on a hyper v hosted w2k3 machine. You may ping the […]

June 17, 2011

Published by Chrysostomos Psaroudakis on June 17, 2011

The Microsoft VSS snapshot provider selected returned: “Unexpected provider error”. Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1. “COM+ REGDB Writer” has reported an error 0x800423f4. This is part of System State. The backup cannot continue.

I came up to this error yesterday with a W2k3 SP2 DC/Exchange (also seen on W2k8).Volume shadow copy creation: Attempt 1. “COM+ REGDB Writer” has reported […]