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Top Rated "Admin Tips" Tips

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1) "Access Is Denied" Error Message When You Try To Delete A File/Folder
Date - Jan 07, 2009
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Miscellaneous
This article explains how you can use Process Explorer, a tool from Sysinternals (now subsidiary of Microsoft), to kill the lock on files and folders.
2) Add Domain User To Local Administrators Group
Date - Dec 09, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This article explains how you can use Psexec.exe to add a domain user to local administrators Security group.
3) A Quick Tip To Check Operating System Architecture
Date - Nov 30, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This tip explains how you can check Operating System architecture on a computer running Windows Operating System.
4) A Quick Tip To Get A List Of Security Groups A User Belongs To
Date - Sep 17, 2009
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This article explains a quick tip you can use to get the list of Security Groups a user or users belong/s to.
5) A Quick Tip To Get Members Of Security Groups
Date - Sep 17, 2009
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This article explains a command which you can use to get the members of security group or security groups mentioned in a text file.
6) A Quick Tip To Reconfigure Windows Time Service
Date - Dec 01, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This article explains how you can reconfigure Windows Time Service
7) Dual Booting Windows 2000 and NT
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Installation
8) DynamicSiteName and SiteName – Which site a client computer belongs to?
Date - Jul 30, 2008
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Active Directory
If you are troubleshooting a client computer which always communicates to a domain controller in different site, you should look at the two registry entries explained in this article. This article applies to Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
9) Group Policy Objects and Gpotool.EXE
Date - Dec 15, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Active Directory
This article explains how you can use Gpotool.exe to check the sync problem with Group Policy Objects.
10) Group Policy Processing At Client Computers
Date - Dec 14, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Active Directory
This article explains how Group Policy processing happens at the client computers.
11) How To Check If A Service Is Running or Not On Multiple Servers
Date - Feb 16, 2011
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This article explains how you can use a small CMD script to check the status of a service on multiple computers.
12) How To Disable Caching Of A DNS Record
Date - Mar 01, 2011
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - DHCP and DNS
This article explains how you can disable caching of DNS Resource Records for a DNS Server.
13) Inetserv
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Email
freeware STMP/POP3/Finger server
14) NetWare to Windows 2000 Server Migration & Interoperability
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Migration
15) NT Automatic Reboot after Lockup
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
16) Outlook 2000 Disk Space
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - File Systems
17) Prevent Exchange Log volume from running out of space
Date - Apr 28, 2005
Rating - 5
Author - Leon Funnell
Section - Exchange
Have you ever arrived at work to find the backup hasnt run over the weekend, the logs volume is out of space, and the Storage Group is off line? This little batch file will prevent this from happening by NTFS compressing the oldest logs until the free space is at an acceptable limit to run a backup.
18) Resolve PCI conflicts in NT
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - TroubleShooting
19) Securing Windows 2000 Communications with IP Security Filters: Part One
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
20) Securing Windows 2000 Network Resources Scenario Guide
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
21) Security Communications, Windows 2000 and the OSI Model
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
22) Ssh Secure Shell Resources
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Security
23) Support WebCast: Active Directory Replication in Windows 2000, Part 1. (48 minutes)
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Replication
24) SYSVOL Replication Notes
Date - Mar 17, 2009
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Active Directory
This article explains some notes related to the FRS and SYSVOL replication.
25) Technet CD Product key for 120 day evaluation
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Installation
26) Three Ways To Check Event Logs On Remote Computers
Date - Nov 23, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Administrator
This article explains how you can check Event Logs on remote computer.
27) W2K does not prompt for a password when it returns from hibernation
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - TroubleShooting
28) W2K loses GUID when it runs out of memory
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - TroubleShooting
29) Webserver IIS 5.0 Tuning and Performance
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - IIS
30) Windows 2000 RC2 Beta3 Evaluation expire date
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 5
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
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