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With a pointedly 'Do you know which month it is ?', Sander reminded me that it was time for another blogpost. Not that I had forgotten, but the past weeks have been busy enough. That, and I wasn't 100% sure on which to write. Admittedly, an article had...
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A server running a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 could behave flaky from time to time. Monitoring it gives clues towards this behavior and/or provides insight in why it behaves flaky. I've taken a closer look at monitoring Server Core...
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In this post I discuss how you can determine: 1. If your operating system is running on a hypervisor, 2. The processor feature differences presented for an operating system running directly on hardware versus a parent partition operating system on a hypervisor,...
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There are a couple of ways to install Windows Server 2008. When you're lucky enough to get your hands on a physical copy of a Windows Server 2008 DVD you can use that, but what if your target system doesn't have a DVD player? What if you want to install...
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A while ago Microsoft started publishing protocol documentation about their products. In time more and more protocol documentation is becoming available that contains a lot of information about the corresponding products. One thing to note, be careful...
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Always wanted to have all the information about designing, implementing, using and troubleshooting Group Policy in one place? Well, here it is then. Go and get the Group Policy Survival Guide ( HTML ) and ( PDF )! Cheers, Jorge --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
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To audit stuff in Windows Server you first need to configure a main event category to be enabled for "Successes" and/or "Failures". This must be done through a local GPO on the server or through a GPO in AD which then is linked to an OU containing the...
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A little while ago I showed you how to perform some of the common management tasks on your Server Core installation using the Microsoft Management Console Snap-Ins , available through Computer Management (compmgmt.msc). Last week I showed you how to install...
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Server Core is proving to be a versatile infrastructure platform. After installing your basic Server Core installation, configuring network interfaces, activating, enable remote management (through RDP or WinRM) and changing the look and feel it might...
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... You want to have Your own blog with fresh content ... on different topics ... just steel this post like Deepak Gupta is doing. Lately he wrote about maximum limits in AD, just like I did . He wrote also about Hyper-V new features, exactly as Natasha...
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Recently I became rather intrigued with Hyper-V's Limit Processor Functionality (LPF) function. One little checkbox became such an obsession that I start wasting hours of my time trying to find out exactly what it does. The dialogue says, "Limit processor...
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Have you ever wondered how many objects You can create in Your DIT (actually this was showed some time ago by ~Eric ) ? Or how many DC is to many in a domain? For some time now on one of MS internal distribution groups group of folks were discussing document...
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Handling time is somehow challenging task. It can;t be stopped so far so we have to live with schedules and clocks. But this won't be about time physics but more mundane thing. One of my friends has asked me question how to translate pwdLastSet attribute...
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I've been beta testing a lot of unfinished software products in the past years. Not surprisingly most of these were Microsoft products. (and mostly unknowingly also many products from other vendors...) Let's dive into the world of alphas, betas, release...
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Hello All! After working for CMG/LogicaCMG/Logica for about 8,5 years, I have decided to accept a new exciting challenge at Oxford Computer Group in the Benelux. My new role at Oxford Computer Group is "Senior (Technical) Consultant" for Microsoft IdAM...
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Last weekend I was attending (or better to say I was just passing by as it was short visit) conference organized by some .NET developers and SQL users groups called Community to Community 2008 . If You ask me this was really cool event if You think that...
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Last time we discussed how to transition your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008 , which was something a lot of you were interested in. This time I'm talking in-place upgrading Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers to...
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It's April, so that means it's time for a new blogpost! This time, I've decided to dig a little deeper into the technical aspects of projectmanagement and write an article on planning techniques. We'll examine the various popular methods of planning projects...
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Remote management of Server Core installations helps you. It prevents you from having to struggle with the command line interface on the console of your Server Core installation, while at the same time benefit from a lot of the new stuff Windows Server...
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For years now Microsoft is using Windows Product Activation to protect its intellectual property from piracy. Windows Vista en Windows Server 2008 both sport Volume Activation 2.0 . Although Server Core does not sport a full fledged Graphical User Interface,...
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You probably already know it by now. If you don't, where the heck have you been lately? Windows Server 2008 provides two installation options. The first is Windows Server WITH a GUI (Full Server) and the second one is Windows Server WITHOUT a GUI (Server...
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You probably know similar output like: [RFSRWDC1] C:\>SC SDSHOW NTDS D:(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;SY)(A;;CCLCSWLORC;;;BO)S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;WD) But, what the heck does it mean? SDDL parsing...
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A while ago, I wrote about the new feature within Windows Server 2008 to reanimate and populate the attributes from a snapshot backup. That post can be found here . I thought it would be interesting to summarize the tools available that can help you recover...
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Just a quick post today. Good news! The RC for the Hyper-V MMC has finally been released. It's designed to work on Vista x86 and x64 SP1. SP1 is required. Check out the Windows Virtualization Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization for more...
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Microsoft has released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista. Remember, to be able to install RSAT on Windows Vista, Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is required and must therefore already be installed! Download locations can...
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