Nonpaged Pool Resource Allocation Error (SRV Error 2019)

I currently have a clients server that every so often experiences a condition where it stops responding to network requests.

You can still ping the server, and it still processes some basic commands, like a shutdown command, but it does not allow browsing files or folders, and you cannot RDP to the server. You will also be unable to launch applications if you manage to logon to the server locally.

You may have experienced a similar condition after regaining access to the server you will most likely see that the System log is full of Errors. In my experience this will be Event ID 2019, Source, SRV.

The Server was unable to allocate from the system Nonpaged pool because the pool was empty.

I have seen this occur on Servers and Workstations, there are a lot of fixes suggested online, but so far Read more of this post

What’s Under your Hood? Finding Installed Roles and Role Services

SBS2008Right now i am dealing with an SBS 2008 Server that was missing the Terminal Services Gateway service. This meant that RWA was not working. Users could login to the RWA, choose which computer to connect to, but then they got an error saying that the Terminal Services Gateway service was not running and to call and shout at their Administrator Read more of this post

Happy Birthday to Me…

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Dean was threatened by the size of my Giraffe so chose to stay out of shot.

Tomorrow marks a year to the day since i started blogging with any kind of regularity. I had started a blog about four or five times, way back in 2009, and you can read those posts if you trawl all the way back through the archive. I started out with the idea i would produce a normal type of blog, more for my own interest than for any real reason. However i only posted about once every 6 months. I certainly did not set out to build a technical blog full of incredibly awesome free content, but best laid plans and all that…

Anyway, producing the posts for this site has been very enjoyable, I’ve learnt a huge amount about SBS that i think i would not otherwise have learnt, and wanting to write good articles has pushed me to look a lot deeper into the workings of SBS than any normal person would otherwise care to look.

It’s been very rewarding to sit and stare at the site stats bar chart, watching it creep up, knowing that content i have put together is actually drawing people to my site, although not as many of you have donated to Room to Read as i would have liked. You know i could charge for this stuff? ;o)

I just wanted to write a quick hello and goodbye to you all if you are reading this, not just hitting a solution through Google and wandering off again.

A special mention of course to all of my friends in the IT Community, and the SBS MVPs who have helped me at every stage, and without whom i would still be just a Help Desk Technician.

Special Special mention to Tim Barrett who gave me my own island, which i am not sure exactly what he was trying to tell me.

Special Special Special mention to Susan Bradley, who needs no introduction.

Special Special Special Special mention to Ollie, Marina, Andy and Jeff for making the UK leg of the SBS MVP Roadshow a huge amount of fun.

Even specialer mention to anyone i haven’t mentioned.

Extra huge special thanks to my Wife who as we can all see, has a lot to put up with.

Let’s hope i never win an award because the acceptance speech would be excruciating.

Thanks for visiting my site, hopefully it has been valuable to you this last year, and hopefully it can continue to be of value for another year to come.

Microsoft SBS 2011 Essentials & Windows Phone 7 Add-in

sbsessSome time ago Microsoft released an Add-in for SBS Essentials that allowed you to control your SBS Essentials Server (as well as a corresponding Add-in for Windows Home Server 2011) by using your Windows Phone 7.

At the time i was not lucky enough to have a WP7 handset, but recently i managed to pick up an HTC Trophy and have a play with the Add-in.

There are two parts to set this up, Read more of this post

Quick Fix : Disable the Microsoft SBS 2011 Essentials Launchpad

sbse-conA lot of people deploying SBS 2011 Essentials seem to have developed a special affection for the Launchpad app. That is to say they seek to disable it at the earliest opportunity.

Personally on my deployments i have only disabled it on the users request, Read more of this post

Quick Fix: SBS 2008 ‘Sites’ Self Signed Certificate Expired

SBS2008Please note this article is not for renewing expired certificates used with remote web access!

I had a call today from a partner IT firm who we work with sometimes that had an issue on an SBS 2008 Server. One of the default SSL Certificates had expired, and in turn knocked out Sage 200 that was installed and running on this server. Sage links into the Default website and some of its operations require an SSL certificate. I wont pretend to understand what or why or even how because what i know about Sage can be written on top of a pin head with a power drill.

However, i did manage to help said partner replace his SSL Certificate and make Sage a happy bunny again.

Firstly i found that on my own SBS 2008 server,

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SBS 2011 Essentials & Microsoft Office 365 Integration

sbse-conAs you may be aware Microsoft have released the Office 365 Integration Module for SBS Essentials to public beta.

If you want to take part in the beta, you can download the software from here.

On December 22nd Microsoft released the module for public download. A finished product. At last. Read the Official SBS Blog post here and Download from here and see what you think!

You can get an overview of what the module will do for you from the above blog post, and i imagine you already have an idea of what the module is designed to do already.

As i have been chronicling  the other major (ish) releases for SBS Essentials, i decided to install the module and see exactly what the almost finished article looks like.

Before you continue i think it only fair to warn you this is a long, long post.

I have split the post into the following sections.