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241) Updating a Windows Image: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Here's one method you can use for updating a Windows image that you want to deploy using MDT 2010.
242) Securing the spool files on your print server: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; This tip describes how you can secure the spool files on your Windows Server print server.
243) A Quick Tip To Change The Location File Based DNS Database: Date - Feb 24, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can change the location of DNS Database of file based DNS Servers.
244) A Quick Tip To Install Windows Server Backup On Multiple Computers: Date - Feb 23, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use ServerManagerCMD, a command line tool, to install Windows Server Backup feature on multiple Computers.
245) A Quick Tip To Get PowerShell Version Using Registry: Date - Feb 23, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you check a registry entry to check Installed Power Shell version on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computers. This article applies to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 only.
246) What is AppLocker and How To Use It?: Date - Feb 22, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains the AppLocker found in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 computers.
247) NTFS Permissions Inheritance Changes in Windows Vista, 2008, and 7: Date - Feb 17, 2011; Rating - 2.8; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; If it’s been a while since you last studied NTFS permissions inheritance then there is one change you will want to be aware of.
248) How To Check If A Service Is Running or Not On Multiple Servers: Date - Feb 16, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use a small CMD script to check the status of a service on multiple computers.
249) How To Compress using Command Line tool?: Date - Feb 16, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article explains how you can use Compress.exe, a command line tool, to compress files on Windows Computers.
250) How To Enable Hibernation On Multiple Computers: Date - Feb 15, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can enable Hibernation on multiple computers using a CMD script or Group Policy.
251) A Quick Tip To Check If A Port Is Listening On Multiple Computers: Date - Feb 09, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Network; This article explains how you can check if a port is listening on multiple computers.
252) A Quick Tip To Check If Ports Are Listening: Date - Feb 09, 2011; Rating - 3.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Security; This article explains how can you check quickly if the ports are listening or blocked by the firewall.
253) Troubleshooting failure to install of Exchange 2010 due to DNS issues: Date - Feb 08, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; What to do if you try to install Exchange 2010 and get an error saying that the DNS server could not be resolved.
254) How to repurpose an RRAS server: Date - Feb 03, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; If you have a Windows Server that has RRAS installed and you need to use your server for some other purpose, here's what you need to do first before you remove the RRAS role.
255) Windows Firewall doesn't filter routed IP traffic: Date - Feb 02, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Here's a tip to save you some frustration if you ever decide to configure a dual-NIC Windows Server computer as an IP router.
256) Configure Static IP with the Netsh Command-Line Utility: Date - Feb 02, 2011; Rating - 2.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; Manually set the IP address of network connections via the Command Prompt.
257) 802.1X Authentication Registry Hacks in XP: Date - Feb 01, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security; Modifing the Pairwise Master Key (PMK) and Preauthentication settings for better roaming.
258) Securing 802.1X Authentication Settings: Date - Jan 27, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security
259) Create a Wireless Hosted (Virtual) Network: Date - Jan 26, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Using Microsoft's old VirturalWiFi feature, you can create a virtural wireless access point (AP).
260) New Netsh WLAN Commands in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2: Date - Jan 26, 2011; Rating - 2.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Review the new wireless networking commands for this command-line utility.
261) Change IP Address of Wireless Hosted Network: Date - Jan 25, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Modify the default IP of 192.168.137.1 for the virtual Wi-Fi access point (AP).
262) Troubleshooting Sleep Mode Device Wake-Up with Powercfg: Date - Jan 20, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Leveraging sleep mode can have a very positive impact on both your network and your budget. However, there are some devices that may cause you grief when your computer wakes up. We can use the update powercfg utility to troubleshoot this.
263) Prevent Accidental Object Deletion in Active Directory: Date - Jan 19, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; If you work with Active Directory long enough, chances are that you will accidentally delete something you shouldn’t. Windows Server 2008 puts a new feature in place to prevent this from happening.
264) Enabling Hibernation in Windows Vista and 7: Date - Jan 19, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; The hibernation feature goes one step beyond simply putting a system to sleep, but configuring this isn’t as easy in Windows Vista and 7 as it has previously been. This tip will show you how to enable it.
265) Deleting Recently Opened PST Files: Date - Jan 18, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; If you’ve ever tried to delete or rename a PST file directly after opening it in Outlook 2007 then you were probably shocked to find that you couldn’t do so for at least thirty minutes. This can become bothersome in certain situations, but we can fix that with a simply registry edit.
266) Changing the name of your MDT server: Date - Jan 13, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; If you change the name of your MDT server then you need to do a few other things to make your deployments continue to work.
267) Specifying the deployment type when running LiteTouch.vbs: Date - Jan 12, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; You can override the deployment type specified in the CustomSettings.ini file of MDT 2010 when you run LiteTouch.vbs from the command line.
268) Installing Windows 7 on a different partition or disk: Date - Jan 12, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; You can use MDT 2010 to install Windows 7 on a disk or partition you specify.
269) You cannot relocate the Windows directory: Date - Jan 11, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; An explanation of why Windows must always be installed in the Windows directory in Windows Vista and later.
270) Troubleshooting deploy from media method: Date - Jan 06, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Migration; You are using the deploy from DVD media method with MDT 2010 and an error occurs when Windows files are being expanded.