Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Startup Issues (Part 2)

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This article discusses five more methods that you can use to diagnose and repair service startup issues.

Introduction

In my first article in this series I talked about some really basic techniques for troubleshooting problems with services that refuse to start. In this article, I want to conclude the series by talking about five more things that you can do to get a stubborn service to start.

Check the Dependency Services

Sometimes a service may fail to start due to a problem with a dependency. Services can sometimes form a hierarchical architecture in which other services must be running in order for a service to start. Granted, not all services have dependencies associated with them, but dependency services are common enough that they certainly warrant a look if you are having trouble starting a service.

In the old days it was really tough to track down problems with dependency services, but most of the newer versions of Windows make it easy. To check service dependencies, open the Service Control Manager, right click on the service that you are having trouble starting, and select the Properties command from the resulting shortcut menu. When you do, Windows will display the service’s properties sheet.

Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Startup Issues (Part 1)

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This article discusses the basics of troubleshooting failed system services, including verifying an error message and tracking down information in the event logs.

Introduction

Troubleshooting a service failure can sometimes be a frustrating experience. Thankfully, there are some techniques that you can use to get to the cause of the problem and get your server up and running relatively quickly. In this article, I want to discuss various techniques that you can use to troubleshoot service failures.

Before I Begin

Before I get started, I just want to quickly mention that all of the screen shots presented in this article series are based on Windows Server 2008 R2. Even so, most of these techniques will work on other versions of Windows as well. The exact steps may not always match up perfectly from one operating system to another, but the basic concepts are relevant across the board.

How To Create Disk Images & Mount Them On A Virtual Drive Windows

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One of my acquaintances, who has just got his first personal computer, has a weird new hobby – buying and copying CDs and DVDs (music, applications, movies) to his laptop’s hard drive. His reason is that he wants to put his collection all in one place, and he has plenty of storage space to spare. But being a first time computer user, he used a bit of a strange way of doing it. He copied everything inside the discs and pasted them onto the hard drive.

The first time I met the concept of a disk image was in the late 90′s when I unsuccessfully tried to play a computer game without the CD. Back in those days, many software makers required that the installation/data CD’s were to be present in the tray before the application could run. If you used many applications and each one of them required several CD’s, repeatedly inserting and changing those CD’s could become very annoying. It would be much better if users transformed those CD’s into disk images and mount them using virtual drives.

How To Rip & Mount Multiple ISO Images Easily Windows

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I deal with lots of ISO images, for installing operating systems, service pack updates and programs. Some of my tools reside in ISO images as well. I used to burn all my disks and bring them where they had to go.

In case you’re one of the readers who don’t know what an ISO image is, it’s an archive file, a bit like ZIP or RAR, but it’s uncompressed. In order to open and read the ISO archive it needs to be mounted.

Now with ISODisk I can mount my ISO images from the network as a drive letter. I can share them out over the network with others or run them locally on a machine without having to burn the image.

Now with ISODisk I can mount my ISO images from the network as a drive letter. I can share them out over the network with others or run them locally on a machine without having to burn the image.