Security Token Service

Had a bit of a scare during a maintenance window.  Ran some updates on our SharePoint farm and after that one of the sites wasn’t coming up.  Kept getting a 503 error.  When I checked the event log, I found this error message: An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The HTTP service… Continue reading Security Token Service

The ordinal 120 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll.

We have 5 Citrix Terminal Servers that are configured “identically”.  After installing IE8 on two of them, the following started showing up:     After a bunch of searching, I saw a few people have gotten this, but no one had a solution, or at least I couldn’t find it.  I did see a similar… Continue reading The ordinal 120 could not be located in the dynamic link library iertutil.dll.

Error installing update for Microsoft Forefront

I have a server that is Server 2008 x64.  It has the client for Microsoft Forefront Client Security installed.  It has been showing that it needed to update the client, but every time I told it to run, it would fail. I found this in the Application log: Application ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront\Client Security\Client\Antimalware\MSASCui.exe’ (pid 3304)… Continue reading Error installing update for Microsoft Forefront

Server Core – A few notes and links to useful commands

I asked a coworker to find the method/command to run updates on Server Core and he came back with a link to this nice little script: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387102(VS.85).aspx And every time I forget the command to do something in Server Core, when I do a search to find it, I always come back with a link… Continue reading Server Core – A few notes and links to useful commands

Windows Failed to install the update with error 0x80070643

I am responsible for keeping a number of machines (around 900 or so) up to date with all the latest Windows Updates.  Recently I noticed that a number (around 15 or so that I am sure of) weren’t installing particular updates.  I have seen this in the past, but the particular updates that wouldn’t apply weren’t of real… Continue reading Windows Failed to install the update with error 0x80070643