Perhaps your dear DC went up into flames and flew away in a snow storm.

Now that you demoted your DC by force the wizard did not do any clean up and you now Have To do manually if you do not want to run into issues - YMMV.

A full clean up will take place in different places and ntdsutil will not clean everything up for you. Here are a few things you will want to do to:

Let's say your defunct DC was named mydeadDC on a mydomain.net.

• If the mydeadDC had a fsmo role, seize it from another DC (use the easy ADUC GUI or ntdsutil)
• Use ntdsutil, the GUI or a script to cleanup the metadata like in this article of the msft site. With  2k8R2 it is said the ADUC should take care of everything but I always had to clean up a little further.
• In DNS, check for any trace of mydeadDC under msdcs and host records associated
• In DNS, check for any mention of mydeadDC under the Name Servers list
• If DFS was used, verify for mydeadDC to be removed as any Namespace Server. Also check your dfs-configuration under the System CN when in ADSIedit

I always forget about the late one but I think that's all. If you have any addition for this list please feel free to share.

After you do anything like the above, please allow or force replication and propagation prior to verifying anything.

And when checking replication and kcc status, remember that replmon is gone and has been replaced by repadmin (repadmin /kcc myWorkingDC)

I took me almost an hour to figure out how to use the -include parameter.

As from technet or the embedded help:

-include       Specifies the comma-delimited list of items to include in the
backup. You can include multiple volumes. Volume paths can be
specified using volume drive letters, volume mount points, or
GUID-based volume names. If you use a GUID-based volume
name, it should be terminated with a backslash (\). You can
use the wildcard character (*) in the file name when
specifying a path to a file. Should be used only when the
-backupTarget parameter is used.

This said if I listed the volumes separated by a comma it would not let me. So just to save time to someone trying to do something like: wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:\\somewhere\here -systemstate -vssfull -allcritical -quiet -include:a:,b:,c:,d:,e:[...] to put the list of volumes to include between double quotes. -include:"a:,b:,c:,d:,e:[...]"

I cannot believe that this is not mentioned anywhere.

I had that list of address representing some place of interests - all of the aikido dojos. And course I knew my home address. While google doc offered me an easy way to map all of those addresses on a map, I wanted to get some extra information such as the duration or distance for directions between my place and the listed address.

With the following formula one can easily find plenty of information:

For a duration

=INDEX(importXML("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin="&SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( D2 ;CHAR(13);" ");CHAR(10);" ")); " "; "+")&"&destination="&SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( $D$9 ;CHAR(13);" ");CHAR(10);" ")); " "; "+")&"&sensor=false" ; "//leg/duration/text[last()]" ) ; 1)

For a distance

=INDEX(importXML("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin="&SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( D2 ;CHAR(13);" ");CHAR(10);" ")); " "; "+")&"&destination="&SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE( $D$9 ;CHAR(13);" ");CHAR(10);" ")); " "; "+")&"&sensor=false" ; "//leg/distance/text[last()]" ) ; 1)

You will understand that my home address would be in the cell D9 and that each address are in a D# cell.

Of course using the XPath Syntax, you can refer to any of the xml tag and get the value you need in a cell as you notice that the only difference between those are the parsing I am doing with //leg/distance.

importXML is pretty neat for parsing into xml data but use it with moderation as you can only use it 50 times in a spreadsheet.

Installation Steps
Create user bb on the server to be monitored.Assign 1984 uid to the Big Brother user.

useradd -u 1984 -c "Big Brother monitoring" bb

Copy the latest BB client tar file from your repository to bb home directory of the monitored server.

su - bb
scp root@yourrepo:/home/bb/software/BBCLT-aix6.1-bbc4.30-bbpe.tar .

Decompress the tar file in the bb home directory

In the bb home directory
tar -xvf BBCLT-aix6.1-bbc4.30-bbpe.tar

Exit from bb home directory as the BB client should be installed using root account.
From root user go to /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe/install and execute bbconfig file.After executing bbconfig file, it will ask to accept the License agreement.
After accepting the License agreement, the installation process will ask to enter a few details.

OS [aix] is the default so you can hit enter directly
It will ask for the userid for Big Brother which will be "bb".

The installation process will add a service in /etc/init.d which will start at boot.

At this point the BB client is not started as bb-hosts file is missing or empty.

Information about bb-hosts file
The bb-hosts file in present in /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe/etc.This file holds the information about the host and the BBDisplay,BBPAGER and BBNET.
BBDISPLAY is the server which will display all the monitored servers.
BBPAGER is the server which sends email alerts.
BBNET is the server which performa all Network tests.

Sample bb-hosts file.If the first line or name of the monitored host does not match the entry in the bb-hosts file then the bb client will not start.

0.0.0.0         monitoredsrv #must name uname -n
0.0.0.0         displaysrv # BBNET BBDISPLAY BBPAGER

Once all the changes are done then we are good to start the BB client.
The entry of the monitored server in bb-hosts file should also match with the entry in BB server's bb-hosts file.

I forgot to mention that to start and stop BB you can use the following:

su - bb -c "cd /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe;./runbb.sh start"

su - bb -c "cd /home/bb/bbc4.30-bbpe;./runbb.sh stop"

A quick round up at the WLS console showed that one of the server doesn't want to start nor restart.

Having a look at the logs for that specific server - you know under logs directory of that server - showed that amount other errors caused by this there was a problem with the diagnostic file.

.../domain/servers/WebLogicAdmin (or managed server)/data/store/default/XXXXX.dat (WLS_DIAGNOSTICS000000.DAT).

the diagnostic file? I never remembered setting any diag mode up and apparently the diag option is off. Anyhow quickly reading of the OTN, some people mentioned deleting the file as it could be corrupted.

That trick never worked for my case. I indeed deleted the WLS_DIAG*.WLS and any .lok under ../Oracle/Middleware/user_projects/domains/canp8/servers files around but nothing.

I eventually had to delete the following directories under each server for which that error occurred. I stopped WLS and for each server I deleted the /data, /tmp and /logs. then starting WLS, it seemed to like not finding them and created a new clean structure. However that was not the end of the troubleshooting as it would complain about the port for one of the server to be already taken by something else.

Indeed, the port seems to be taken by some WLS ghost process of the same name with a different UID. I did not want to look further and decided to shutdown the whole WLS box clean and restart it.

It did the trick for me... perhaps it will do it for you. I still wonder what those files are for and why they would get corrupted and prevent a server from starting up.

With windows 2008R2, in order to deploy the client to the server - locally or remotely - one will need to make sure the account used to deploy the agent is in the inet password account list and part of the install server user list. If not it will need to be added as follow.

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>omniinetpasswd -add youraccount@domain.net

C:\Program Files\OmniBack\bin>omniinetpasswd.exe -inst_srv_user youraccount@domain.net

Use -list to get a list of users already in the list. If you do not add your account, you will have to use the backup service account to deploy any clients.

On your older XP machine:

netsh interface ipv6 install
netsh interface ipv6 set teredo client

On your Win7 machine:

nothing, it is there already!

On your ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install miredo

and voila you are ready to get connected and use the latest technologies. For testing any of that remember that most IPv4 command will work with IPv6 but may require some -6 option or use their IPv6 equivalent such qs ping6.

Then I would head to http://www.sixxs.net/misc/coolstuff/ for a bunch of cool stuff to try when on IPv6.

However it is possible to trick the system using some hidden references to the vdm path.
For instance, to create an export of the FS named prod_public on a vdm, I had to do the following:

[nasadmin@xxxpemccs01 ~]$ server_export xxxpemc01dm01a -P nfs -n vdmpublic -o anon=0 /root_vdm_3/prod_public
xxxpemc01dm01a : done

xxxpemc01dm01a is the name of the DM
and root_vdm_3 is the hidden path the vdm structure. 3 is supposed to be the sequence number of the VDM. I was expecting 1 but somehow it is 3, perhaps we had created from VDM in the past.

I came across a command line switch for Robocopy: /FFT : Assume FAT File Times (2-second date/time granularity).  The NTFS date and time stamp is a 64-bit variable, which DART doesn’t deal with.  So what this does is force Robocopy to use FAT style time stamps which are 2-second granularity. It allows enough flexibility to account for the way the time is recorded when doing a file copy from NTFS to another file system. This is needed when going between and NTFS and Linux/Unix/FAT or emulated file system.

update 20110601: I now use fastcopy instead of robocopy. It is a great fast(er) and friendly tool! And it doesn't have any of the security or date issues I have seem with the msft tool.

Check the phone number of family and friends:

Docomo: http://dengon.docomo.ne.jp/Einoticelist.cgi?es=0
AU: http://dengon.ezweb.ne.jp/E/service.do?p1=dmb221
Softbank: http://dengon.softbank.ne.jp/pc-e1.jsp

Google Response site: http://www.google.co.jp/intl/en/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html

Emergency Messaging Service:

If stranded and you need to message someone, dial 171, then 1, then your own home phone number, then leave your message. To pick up a message, it’s 171, then 2, then your home phone number (the number you think the stranded person would have left).

Tsunami Information:

Tsunami Information: http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/

Shelter list and map:

http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/2530/Japan-earthquake-live-report

Google Mapping of those: http://maps.google.co.jp/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=ja&brcurrent=3,0x605d1b87f02e57e7:0x2e01618b22571b89,0&msa=0&msid=215507572864740295322.00049e31ae027259c4dda&z=12

Live Footage:

NHK official Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
FujiTV: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/index.html
TBS Japanese live footage: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv
Alijazeera English live footage here: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Ongoing Earthquake List:

Earthquake list (Yahoo Japan): http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/
Earthquake list (US): http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35_eqs.php