Troubleshoot ‘Windows Process Activation Service’ failed to start


I was setting up a IIS test environment for testing the mobile redirection this afternoon. That's a test box which may serve for other purpose as well. For some reason, the WAS service (Windows Process Activation Service) just refused to start with the message 'Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified'. I am … Continue reading Troubleshoot ‘Windows Process Activation Service’ failed to start

TSM 6.4: Backup VMware VM Template


In TSM 6.4, there is a new parameter in the VMware backup options : -vmenabletemplatebackups If you want to backup the VMware VM template, you need to add '-vmenabletemplatebackups=yes' in your VMware backup job schedule options. Here is a example: update sched vmware Weekly_full OPTions='-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=DATACENTER-01 -vmprocessvmwithindependent=yes -vmprocessvmwithprdm=yes -vmenabletemplatebackups=yes -domain.vmfull="vmfolder=Weekly-Backup" -MODE=FULL'

Extend ISA/TMG Ports to allow SSH


By default ISA/TMG does not allow outbound SSH traffic. And in the log it shows something like this: To make it work, you have to extend the ISA/TMG ports by adding SSH/22 by using isa_tpr.js. Here is my example:c:\Utils>cscript isa_tpr.js /add SSH 22Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.The Web … Continue reading Extend ISA/TMG Ports to allow SSH