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A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation error has occurred: (0x800423f0)

Tried the system state backup on ‘Cluster A’ and it is failed with the error as like below – A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check “VSS” and “SPP” application event logs for more information. ERROR: A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation error has occurred: (0x800423f0) The shadow-copy set only contains only a… Read More »

Command to check Windows ‘Remote Server Uptime’

Infrastructure Support is increasing day by day from remote places and the System Admins / Network Admins would need to know what are the different features of Windows. It helps to work easily with their Client Servers support. Microsoft keep adding more features to its Windows OS by releasing the Patches, fixes and Service Packs.… Read More »

Why China government bans Windows 8 OS not to use on Computers and Laptops?

One of the biggest Country in the World and one of the most populated Country has banned the Microsoft Windows 8 Operating System on their government used computers. The Central government procurement center is prohibiting the Windows 8 OS to use on government systems and buying new devices with that software. This is confirmed by… Read More »

Disk Expansion Steps using Diskpart on Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008 Servers

‘Diskpart.exe’ is a Microsoft utility used to dynamically increase disk volume capacity on servers that are running of Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Server Operating Systems. As per Microsoft, the NTFS file system maximum partition size is 2TB Procedure how to expand the disks using Diskpart command Go to Command Prompt (with admin rights) Step… Read More »