Category: Windows Technologies

… is a new style of partitioning employed by Windows. Note, that not all versions of Windows (especially the legacy one like Windows NT or 2000) recognize this style.  GPT partitioning is recommended to accommodate the larger disks like > 2 TB, etc.,.

Scenario: When you connect to your office network via VPN tunnel from an outside Windows 7 x64 workstation, VPN successfully connects and then automatically disconnects after a minute with various error codes as shown below:   Troubleshooting: In the logs you’ll see events like below: Event Type:     Information                                                  Event Source:   RasMan                                                  Event Category: None                                                  Event ID:       20268                                                  Date:           6/30/2011                                                  Time:           9:28:33 PM                                                  User:           N/A                                                  Computer:       TESTPC1                                                  Description: using device VPN3-1 was disconnected.                                                                                                                          Event Type:     Information                                                  Event Source:   RasMan                                                  Event Category: None                                                  Event ID:       20267                                                  Date:           6/30/2011                                                  Time:           9:28:04 PM                                                  User:           N/A                                                  Computer:       TESTPC1                                                  Description: using the device VPN3-1.                                                                                                                          […]

Scenario: When you connect to your office network via VPN tunnel from an outside Windows 7 x64 workstation, VPN successfully connects and then automatically disconnects after a minute with various error codes as shown below:   Troubleshooting: In the logs you’ll see events like below: Event Type:     Information                                                  Event Source:   RasMan                                                  Event Category: None                                                  Event ID:       20268                                                  Date:           6/30/2011                                                  Time:           9:28:33 PM                                                  User:           N/A                                                  Computer:       TESTPC1                                                  Description: using device VPN3-1 was disconnected.                                                                                                                          Event Type:     Information                                                  Event Source:   RasMan                                                  Event Category: None                                                  Event ID:       20267                                                  Date:           6/30/2011                                                  Time:           9:28:04 PM                                                  User:           N/A                                                  Computer:       TESTPC1                                                  Description: using the device VPN3-1.                                                                                                                          […]