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Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services

Remote procedure call ( RPC ) is an Inter-process communication technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space (commonly on another computer on a shared network) without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction. That is, the programmer would write essentially the same code whether the subroutine is local to the executing program, or remote. When the software in question is written using object-oriented principles, RPC may be referred to as remote invocation or remote method invocation . That is the definition from wikipedia . Microsoft windows OS have this as a service and so many of its services depends on this to run. But what happens when this service is disabled or value being changed? This is what happened to me, i stupidly changed the log on from default to another account and restarted the machine. When the machine started almost all the services couldn't start no...

Installing Exchange Server 2007

Thursday evening usually means less work do to. Most of the time all i have to do is go home and get some sleep but not this Thursday evening. Around 12pm when i got to work i met a sys Ad struggling with getting back an exchange server online that crashed. He needed this working so urgently because the boss will be at the office the following morning from Nigeria and will be expecting everything to be running smoothly on his network especially the exchange server where he does most of his transactions. So i decided to help. Dang!! We tried so hard to restore the exchange server but to no avail. We later realized that the server running the exchange server has three roles of the FSMO: PDC (primary Domain Controller ) Infrastructure Master Schema master We had to seize all these roles of the FSMO and distributed them to different servers by following the steps we got from this link After transferring the FSMO we were still seeing the offline DC (Domain Controller) on the Active Director...