Disk Defragment MMC does not open properly

Ran into an interesting one today with the Disk Defragmenter.  Got the following error when opening it up:

MMC could not create the snap in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly.

Name: Disk Defragmenter

CLSID: {43668E21-2636-11D1-A1CE-0080C88593A5}

Found a couple of interesting post that helped me this was the one that solved the problem:

http://www.andreasroom.com/blog/archive/2004/01/18/defrag.aspx

In the end I did the following:

regsvr32 atl.dll

regsvr32 dfrgsnap.dll 
regsvr32 dfrgui.dll 

If that doesn't fix it for you refer to the link above which has all sorts of other solutions.  

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Time to Revive Longer than 5 - DNS Records disappearing in 2008

Hello all,

Well it has been a very long time since my last post, but I decided it was time to get back on blogging bandwagon and write another post.  So here it goes.......

I ran into an issue with one of my customers the other day that had me scraching my head for quite a while.  We had a 2008 Server that was hosting seconday copy of a DNS Forward lookup zone.  The primary was on a 2003 server, and the strangest thing was happening.  One by one overtime the DNS records were vanishing.  If you reloaded the zone it would reload with no problem but one by one the records would slowly disapear.  Well after looking around for a while I found this article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953317  It describes a slightly different situaiton, but the fix also stops the DNS records from disapearing.  This only happens between a 2003 primary and a 2008 secondary and hopefully the fix will be release soon in a patch day, but until then.....happy hotfixing!