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So, I’ve wanted to have some fun and spend many long hours in the weekend trying to (white-hat 😉 ) crack a random software that comes with an evaluation period 😀 I’ve chosen a not so difficult one which would check against a response from the web for its verification or anything like that, but […]

So, wow, this was nice! … a super one-off scenario related to SCOM. This is very interesting though from a point of view of debugging and can theoretically happen in any application, so we are going to have a look at how to debug (and automate debugging) of the DLL Loader component (LDR) from ntdll.dll. Let’s […]

Got a request the other day to have a look at a full memory dump of a SCCM server that was hanging due to physical memory pressure (has 32GB RAM installed). As it is the case usually in these situations, the issue was not caused by any SCCM component, but rather something else 😉 It’s a good […]

Here is an interesting issue I came across. I did not encounter this too often but still, it’s very interesting and it was very fun to troubleshoot! 😀 In case you get the same error I suggest opening a case with Microsoft Support because it will be easier. Still, let me tell the story just […]

There are some great articles out there which talk about troubleshooting the Data Warehouse. In this article I will be going into explaining the internals of the Data Warehouse along with troubleshooting information. It is important to first of all understand how the DW Jobs work. There are some Jobs that are only visible by […]