Jamie's Blog

DFS issues on some DCs only

Problem:

We had some issues with some users accessing the DFS shares.

Solution:

Turns out that our main filesystem went down  so DFS was routing everyone to our DR file server. However, the DR file server was in read only mode for users. We were able to track which DFS server the clients were connecting to by using

dfsutil /pktinfo

this assisted us in finding out the root cause of the strange errors. Even though the DFS MMC showed the DR site referral status as disabled the dfsutil showed us stuff was still connecting to it and using it actively.

Have Multiple PeopleSoft Environments Opens In Internet Explorer

Problem:

We had some users who needed to have a QA and PROD PeopleSoft environment open at the same time. When they would launch the second window it would log them off of the original peoplesoft environment.

Solution:

If you launch a “new session” in IE 8 it saves the cookies in the different location. This enables you to sign on to as many new peoplesoft sessions as you would like without losing your existing one.