The other day I was having a problem with a lot of space being consumed in the C Drive on a Windows 2008 SBS or Windows 2011 SBS version. I have noticed that the InetPub log files were taking more than 50GB of space. Now, there is an automatic way to delete these log and have a breath of fresh space. You can either use the below script to run it manually or set it up in a Scheduled task. This will stop the services and clear the logs… Swish, there it’s fixed. Enjoy.

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO ** STOP IIS SERVICE **
NET STOP "TSGateway"
NET STOP "W3SVC"
ECHO ** DELETE OLD LOGS **
Forfiles.exe /P "C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1" /M *.log /D -5 /C "Cmd.exe /C del @path"
ECHO ** START IIS SERVICE **
NET START "W3SVC"
NET START "TSGateway"

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Yep, Cisco VPN Client didn’t work first time but there is a small registry update to make it work. The installation worked fine but after I setup an entry it will tell me “Failed to enable Virtual Adapter” during “Securing communication channel”. There is a small registry fix for this.

Open Regedit and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CVirtA

and modify the value of DisplayName key with the following

For 64 bit – Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows
For 32 bit – Cisco Systems VPN Adapter

Close Regedit and try to connect again… Voila’!

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I went past an issue where I would have a flooding Error messages on the Event Viewer saying:

The description for Event ID ( 204 ) in Source ( IIDS ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: PurgeThread.cpp, 83, OS reports error:The system cannot find the path specified.

The Event ID and Source is irrelevant and it may vary depending on the service reporting the issue. In my case the issue was being reported by the Internet Imaging Document Server (IIDS).

This usually happens when there is a service which is installed and started, but not configured. In my case it was a service that could be stopped.

This could also happen with 3rd party applications where it was installed with a user account and the service account doesn’t get permission to pull the info about the required DLLs like that.

Hope it helps someone

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Many times you try to stop a service and it remains in “stopping” state and you cannot do anything to make it stop. There is a way to kill a serive by running the following command.

Taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq Service_name"

In the Service_name you have to enter the name. To find the name you will need to open services.msc and right-click on the service and select properties. You will need to copy the name on the Service Name field under the General tab.

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With Windows SBS 2011, at one point I have noticed that it was consuming a lot of storage and only 10GB was left out of a 150GB partition. After further investigation I have noted that the INETPUB was consuming around 90GB. Actually the log files of the W3SVC1 doesn’t remove old log files.

You can either delete or crop these logs. A quick solution is to stop the World Wide Web service and delete the folder, but if you want to keep the recent logs, you can create a sheduled task which does the following.

Stop Service
Delete files in the W3SV1 folder which are older than 5 days

Script below

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO ** STOP SERVICES **
NET STOP "TSGateway"
NET STOP "W3SVC"
ECHO ** DELETE OLD LOGS **
Forfiles.exe /P "C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1" /M *.log /D -5 /C "Cmd.exe /C del @path"
ECHO ** START SERVICES **
NET START "W3SVC"
NET STOP "TSGateway"


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For setting up the auto-login on domain with a Windows 7 and Windows XP machine is an ideal function when having point-of-sales starting on their own and you want the sales persons to find it ready to work in the morning.

So, to do this you would need to browse your registry by running the REGEDIT.EXE and under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon you would need to update the following…

"DefaultUserName"="username"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultDomainName"="domain"
"DefaultPassword"="password"

As the DefaultUsernName enter the username of the user example myuser
On the AutoAdminLogon, if it is set to 0, replace it with 1
On DefaultDomainName, enter the domain name example mydomain

Now, usually the DefaultPassword doesn’t exist, so you have to create it. So, right click and select New and then String Value. As the name of the string enter DefaultPassword (Mind the Case) and then update it by entering the password of your user.