Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 12 Nov. 2008
• Section: Admin

Here are several reasons why you should never disable the default administrative shares on Windows computers, especially in an enterprise (managed) environment... Read More

• by Nirmal Sharma
• Published on 11 Nov. 2008
• Section: Admin

This article discusses the a mechanism used by the DCPromo.exe to select a DC when promoting a member server to Domain Controller... Read More

• by Nirmal Sharma
• Published on 11 Nov. 2008
• Section: Admin

This article discusses about D2 and D4 of File Replication Service in Active Directory and when should you use them?... Read More

• by Nirmal Sharma
• Published on 6 Nov. 2008
• Section: Admin

This article explains how to determine the Primary Member of a SYSVOL Replica Set in an Active Directory domain... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 5 Nov. 2008
• Section: Administration

Many logon scripts that worked with Windows operating systems won’t work with Windows Vista. Here’s what you can do to replace them... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 4 Nov. 2008
• Section: Misc

If you find it tricky to logoff/shutdown Vista using the Start button because of accessibility issues, here’s a solution... Read More

• by Nirmal Sharma
• Published on 29 Oct. 2008
• Section: Admin

This article explains a small mechanism you can use to make sure FRS is working... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 28 Oct. 2008
• Section: Administration

Windows Vista won’t automatically create ad hoc wireless connections with other computers, but for greater security you may want to disable ad-hoc wireless connections entirely. Here’s how to do this... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 23 Oct. 2008
• Section: Deployment

If you have dozens or more XP workstations that use the Encrypting File System (EFS) to safeguard data, and you need to migrate these machines to Vista without losing your EFS keys and certificates, then what should you do?... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 22 Oct. 2008
• Section: Misc

Installing Service Pack 1 on Windows Vista archives certain files so you can remove SP1 later if you decide to. You can reclaim disk space by deleting these files... Read More