Contents tagged with Troubleshooting
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Securely Transmit a Secret [password]
“Help, Dick, Help!” exclaimed Sally. “I lost my password” “Look, Jane, Look,” said Dick. “I emailed you your password.” Jane sees her password. Everybody sees her password. Jane is sad. Dick is sad. Transmitting secret information, such as a password, to a user across the Internet is often mishandled. One common way is to send the password through email. While
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Working past 500–Internal server error
So you’ve written a new ASP.Net website, tested it locally in your development environment and you deploy it to your IIS server. Now you’re getting the dreaded 500 – Internal server error. What are you to do?
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Send an email when an event is logged
As a systems administrator you may find yourself spending a significant amount of time in Event Viewer looking for specific events. You will be happy to know that there is a new feature that shipped with Windows 2008 and all versions of Windows Server since then that allows you to attach events to a log file so that you can configure a specific action to occur. There is a way to do this in previous versions of Windows Server that is covered below.
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Perform a clean startup of Windows the easy way
From time to time you may experience issues with a program not working as expected on your Windows computer. To assist in troubleshooting, Microsoft has included a tool that many have forgotten about even though it has been around since Windows 98. The tool is called System Configuration and is accessed by typing msconfig in the start menu. You will note that making changes to any of the options in the utility will require a restart of your system to take effect.
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Default mail program is not configured
I came across an issue recently where someone was trying to email a document from a program and getting an error that a default mail program is not configured or that the mail program was unable to handle the request.
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Enabling Failed Request Tracing
Occasionally I get questions on how to troubleshoot intermittent issues in IIS. One example is an intermittent 500 status code and another example is a slow page load. In IIS7 and later there is a simple module that you can install as part of IIS called Failed Request Tracing (FREB).