Monday, September 22, 2008

Remotely Logging Off Terminal Service Users

This guy has a contrite posting on the matter:

http://www.danrigsby.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/26/remotely-log-off-remote-desktop-users/

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Ready, IPSEC, No Communication

That was the problem I had recently experienced with the application of updates MS09-045 and MS08-049 in tandem. The machine this took place on also doubles as an EndPoint Security Server (which invites its own slew of issues).

The handy work of Ant Drewery at http://www.drewery.net/blog/2006/04/18/failure-of-ipsec-services/#comment-40309 helped send me in the right direction. Looks like petri may have some competition!

The issue occured after trying to restart the machine after installing updates. For whatever reason, the system just did not want to bounce. Despite about 3 attempted restart /f commands. Upon it coming back up, there was no network connectivity to the outside world. IPSEC had ceased all that communication quite nicely.

To resolve - I re-registered a dll with the following command:

regsvr32 polestor.dll

Upon restart all works nicely! This is on a 2003 SP2 client with a 2003 SP2 Domain Controler.