Printing

The script published in this article was kindly contributed by Bo Riis, a sysadmin working at Danish hosting company dandomain. Here is what he writes about it: Recently I had some issues with MS Office getting really slow on some of our customers’ terminal servers. After some intensive debugging we came to the conclusion that when users disconnected a session they left behind their open printer ports. It seems like that these ports don’t get cleaned up after a while, like the session they belong to. These ghost ports linger and use more and more resources in the print spooler and Office does not react well to a busy print spooler. One of our servers had more than 3000 of these orphaned ports. [Whoa!]

Attending the community conference PubForum E2E Conference has many benefits, the biggest is in my opinion getting to know many very talented and very nice people. One of them, Ton de Vreede, recently sent me a PowerShell script he had written which I am happy to publish here.

Windows General Good info for troubleshooting DFS-Namespaces in the MS KB: Storage locations, inconsistencies and how to deal with them. Complex passwords and security guidelines for end users? No, thank you, says MS researcher. I agree.