Windows Live error 8600108 when syncing Windows Live with Windows Phone

Yesterday morning I realized I did not get any mails over night so something must be wrong with the sync of my Windows Live/Hotmail account. After checking my Windows Live account under settings –> Email+accounts I could see the message “account is not up-to-date”. By tapping on the Windows Live account I got the following error message.

Windows Live Error 8600108

Windows Live error

Not updated
We're having a problem synchronizing with m.hotmail.com
Last tried [xx] seconds ago
Error code: 8600108

After searching the web for some time I found the solution, the problem only appeared when I was syncing E-Mail. After unchecking the E-Mail check box the sync worked fine, except the mail sync of course. Now after it seems that this had to be a problem with a email. I deleted the latest messages on live.com and check the checkbox for E-Mail in my Windows Live account on my phone again the sync worked fine again.

From support.microsoft.com:

This error can indicate a back-end mail server issue, which may be caused when Windows Live tries to sync an email with a large or problematic Word document such as an attachment. There could also be a temporary service outage.

More Information: Here

 

Error: IIS6 Error EventID 1059 and 1021

Just a had a problem with an application pool which always crashed after start. The application pool worked some days ago without any problems. After watching den System Eventlog I got the Error with Event ID 1059 and a Warning with Event ID 1021.
I had this problem on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 with all the latest patches
EventID 1059
Event Type: Error
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1059
Date: 27.05.2011
Time: 11:49:31
User: N/A
Computer: WEB-WIN
Description:
A failure was encountered while launching the process serving application pool 'www.domain.ch'. The application pool has been disabled.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

EventID 1021
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1021
Date: 27.05.2011
Time: 11:50:01
User: N/A
Computer: WEB-WIN
Description:
The identity of application pool, 'www.domain.ch' is invalid. If it remains invalid when the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled. The data field contains the error number.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 2e 05 07 80 ...€

The Solution for this problem is very simple. Just reset the password of the specific IUSR and don’t forget to reset the password for the application pool identity.

HP Network Interface does not start.

I just installed two new HP ProLiant DL360 G6 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Everything worked fine until I installed the HP Support Pack which includes Drivers and Firmware for the HP Server.

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

After I installed the HP ProLiant Support Pack one of my Network Interfaces could not start. I got the following error in the Device Manager:

HP NC382i DP Virtual Bus Device
This device cannot start. (Code 10)

I tried to uninstall the device and rebooted the server but this didn’t work. I had still the same error.

The problem was that just uninstalling the driver does not work, you also have to check the checkbox on “Delete the driver software for this device.”

Delete the driver software for this deviceAfter doing that you can rescan for new hardware and the system will find this adapter again and everything will work fine.

Error: Unable to get the private bytes memory limit for the W3WP process

Error

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1093
Date: 13.01.2011
Time: 11:11:50
User: N/A
Computer: Server01

Description:

Unable to get the private bytes memory limit for the W3WP process. The ASP.NET cache will be unable to limit its memory use, which may lead to a process restart. Error: 0×80070005

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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Environment

  • Windows Server 2003
  • IIS 6
  • .NET 2.0 and 1.1

Summary

This Error is caused by the a know issue with permissions of the IIS metabase. The metabse ACL’s do not include the IIS_WPG group on the W3SVC/AppPools part in the metabase.

Solution

  • Download metaacl.vbs
  • Run the following command:
    cscript metaacl.vbs IIS://Localhost/W3SVC/AppPools IIS_WPG RE

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Remote Disk Management with “RPC server is unavailable” Error

If you have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Server or a Hyper-V R2 Server, which is also managed like a Core Server, you are really happy if you can use the Server Manager for this Remote Machine. Basiclly I had the the Remote Setup done. I could connect to the remote Machine with the Server Manager but when I tried to use the Disk Management on a remote Server and I got the following error “RPC server is unavailable”. After checking it I found the solution. The Problem is that the Firewall blocks the remote communication to virtual disk service. So you have to open the Firewall on the Management Machine

  1. First make sure you activated all the Remote Management options on the Remote Machine. I had all done this but its good to check that.
  2. Now you can run the following Command in cmd on the Management Machine to add the a new firewall rule
    netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Volume Management" new enable=yes

firewall

Windows PPTP VPN with Cisco Linksys RV042

Cisco Linksys RV042

Today I was setting up my little lab, I decided to create a Windows PPTP VPN for my lab network which should give me more comfort. First I installed the Network Policy and Access Services Role and did the configuration. I also enabled PPTP Passthrough, added a port forwarding and a firewall rule to my Cisco Linksys RV042. I know the RV042 is not really a big deal, but you have a lot of jobs and if you don’t really need a lot of network options, like me in my lab, this is a pretty cool device.

I now tested the VPN Connection with my Windows 7 Client. Error 800 and 807 which basically means no connection through the firewalls with the VPN Server.

I checked again the Firewall Configuration on my RV042, and could not found any mistake. After a quick search with Google and Bing ;-) I saw a lot of posts with the same problem and the Linksys RV042.

After some search I came to a solution, I deactivated the SPI Firewall on the Device, and this caused the problem. After activating the SPI Firewall again, the error was gone and the VPN worked.