How to troubleshoot common NLB problems. Following are the general steps that one may want to try while troubleshooting commong NLB (WLBS) issues like: 1) Nodes not converging.2) Adding a node to the NLB cluster stops the cluster from working.3) Unable to access NLB from another VLAN.4) NLB not working properly. 1) First collect the "WLBS Display" logs from all the nodes. Compare them for any mismatching rule or Parameter. Try to find if you see frequent convergence happening. If you see lot of convergence happening but nodes never getting converged then you might want to check the heart beat communication.If you find an error message like "cluster Mode Stopped" then again youmight want to check the heart beat communication as well as for any misconfiguration in the NICs. Also make sure that your NICs drivers are updated and you don't have teaming enabled on the nodes. 2) Try to ping the VIP from the same V/LAN. 3) Try to ping the DIP of the nodes you should be able to do so.
Hope this helps. Best practices. How to troubleshoot common NLB problems. Web Farming with the Network Load Balancing Service in Windows Server 2003. By Rick Strahl www.west-wind.com rstrahl@west-wind.com Last Update: June 4th, 2003 When a single Web Server machine isn’t enough to handle the traffic on your Web site it’s time to look into building a Web Farm that uses multiple machines on the network acting as a single server. In this article Rick looks at the Windows Load Balancing Service and the new interface it sports in Windows Server 2003, which makes creating a Web Farm quick and easy and – gasp –even an affordable solution.
With the release of Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancing has become a much more visible tool as a part of the operating system, providing a very usable and relatively easy to configure interface that makes it easy to build a Web Farm. The Network Load Balancing Service has been around in one incarnation or another since Windows NT SP4, but Windows Server 2003 is the first operating system that brings this service into the forefront as a main component of the OS. Web Farms for city folk – do you need it?
Mark M Manning - Creating a Fake Printer (/dev/null for Windows) These directions will create a printer in Windows that will receive print jobs and then automatically delete them. This is probably only going to be useful for one in a million situations but I thought it was an interesting exercise none the less. If anyone does find this useful, I'd be interested to hear about it . The reason I did this was because a program was hard coded that when you press the print icon, it would print.
Then it would ask you if you wanted to print and select a which printer to print to. It would cause pages to be printed twice, and no matter where you wanted to print, they would go to your default. So I changed the default to just dump them using the Windows NUL function which works the same as /dev/null in Linux. Open up your printers and go to "Add Printer" Add it as a local printer and uncheck "Automatically Detect" Click on "Create a new port:" Choose "Local Port" The port name is "nul" (yes one "l") Name the printer Printer of Death (or whatever you want)
How to Sysprep in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 : Brian Desmond's Blog. About eighteen months ago, I blogged about how to run Sysprep for Windows Server 2008 and this has turned out to be the most popular article on this site by a long shot, so I figured I'd update it for Windows Server 2008 R2 (and Windows 7). If you never had the need to look at Sysprep in Windows Vista/2008, you'll find that it's nothing like what you're used to on Windows Server 2003, XP, etc. The first step is acquiring the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) and installing it on a machine. It will run fine on a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 machine. You can get it from Microsoft's website at The tool of choice is the Windows System Image Manager (WSIM).
The first step is to open the image file for the Windows SKU you want to build a sysprep file for by going to File>Select Windows Image: Note: You may need to first create a catalog file before completing the preceding step. My answer file tree:
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