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July 2006 - Posts

Hot...hot...hot...hot...

It is so freakin hot over here! Great weather is OK, but this is too much... For over 2 weeks now it has been over 30 degrees celsius. For all those of you living on the other side of "the river" this is the same as over 86 degrees fahrenheit. ;-)) Jorg Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:32 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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"Sunday Bloody Sunday" by President G.W. Bush

This is good! ;-) http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=6805063692754011230 Jorge Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:28 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Another bike!

About a month ago I sold my bike (Suzuki TL 1000 S) ( http://blogs.dirteam.com/photos/jorge/images/168/original.aspx ) Last weekend I bought this one (Aprilia Tuono 1000 R) ( http://www.bikez.com/pictures/large.php?image=../pictures/aprilia/2006/22660_0_1_4_tuono%201000%20r_Image%20credits%20-%20Aprilia.jpg Read More...
Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 10:39 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Tombstone Lifetime within an AD forest when installing the FIRST DC

For the past few days several folks were troubleshooting something very strange. Several people (David Chadwick, Yusuf Dikmenoglu and Jorge Silva) on the newsgroups mentioned that when installing a W2K3 R2 server (using CD1 and CD2!) and promoting it Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 6:46 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Additional information about Domain Renames

Mathieu Chateau (you can find his BLOG here: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com/ ) did a domain rename in his environment and with his permission I provide this information which is his own experience (and which is also available on his own blog). Additional Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 9:40 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Number of DFS root on W2K3 servers

By default: W2K3 Std Edition is limited to ONE DFS root (either domain-based or stand-alone based) W2K3 Ent/Data Edition does not have a technical limit concerning the number of DFS roots However..... Installing the hotfix mentioned in KB article "You Read More...
Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 9:12 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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The Infrastructure Master FSMO and the GC role

This is so simple and people still ask questions in the newsgroups about it. It has been answered sooooooooo many times it almost hurts typing this over and over again.... Concerning the Infrastructure Master FSMO role and the GC role look at it from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:41 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments

Microsoft buys Winternals

Read more here: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+buys+Windows+utility+software+maker/2100-1016_3-6095376.html?tag=nefd.top Jorge Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:31 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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ENLISTING A DC FOR THE DEFAULT APP NCS AFTER PROMOTION

As you may know, by default each W2K3 forest contains 1 application partition for DNS (ForestDNSZones.<ForestName>) and each W2K3 domain contains 1 application partition for DNS (DomainDNSZones.<DomainName>). When a server is freshly promoted Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:23 AM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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Restoring a DC through the ASR method

Today I was testing a restore method within a test environment for a DC using the ASR method with a third party backup and restore tool. The restore went OK. The DC booted and everything was OK. Well, until other DCs were crying like: * RPC unavailable Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:31 PM by Jorge | 1 Comments
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Worldcup: Portugal vs. England

Neither country scored any goal. It was decided by taking penalties. Portugal won that with 3-1. The Portuguese goalkeeper stopt three penalties! Damn, that was good! Next round please...;-) Semi-finals.. here they come. Next wednesday: Portugal vs. France Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:23 PM by Jorge | 0 Comments
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