Ever so often you need to test your Internet speed (for debugging speed issues or maybe to determine the actual speed of a new line or a customers line), in Denmark people often use the test page at www.tdc.dk (the largest telecommunications provider in Denmark) however sometimes, during my work, I need to test the Internet speed from other countries and a Danish test page does not give a reliable result in other countries.
Today I stumbled across what appear to be a very neat test page, it offers nice graphs and customization of the test.
Give it a spin at;
http://www.numion.com/YourSpeed3/Run.phpJust finished installing a few patches to a Windows 2003 box and was puzzled about one of the updates “Windows Powershell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0”, now Powershell I knew about but what is this WinRM (Windows Remote Management) all about.
Well from what I can tell it’s rather basic, it’s more or less the corporate (industry standard) replacement of PsExec.exe from Sysinternals, a way to launch commands, scripts etc. remotely. WinRM (Windows Remote Management) offers some additional features and can be used in scripting, from what I can tell it may also work on hardware devices that support WsManagement.
For more details look here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Management
http://blogs.technet.com/jonjor/archive/2009/01/09/winrm-windows-remote-management-troubleshooting.aspx
I have just had a few servers that somehow has failed to update their Forefront Client Security client software 🙁 The problem seem to be that Forefront cannot seem to stop the FCSAM service while updating, the service is stuck on “Stopping” and neither taskkill og any other utility seem to be able to kill it.
The errors in the eventlog go something along these lines;
Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antimalware Service Error 1921. Service 'Microsoft Forefront Client Security Antimalware Service' (FCSAM) could not be stopped.
I have tried uninstalling, rebooting and reinstalling but this did not help.
The workaround suggested is to set the service FCSAM to manual, reboot, upgrade and then setting the service back to automatically – however this only works for now and thus only postpones the problem.
I have found this article on a similar problem which I will try tomorrow, this includes some additional cleanup steps;
Eg. issuing the command; sc delete fcsam
I will also try to slipstream the installation of Forefront Client Security before I retry the re-installation, description on how to do here (mind you use the latest update and not the one the article refer to);