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A Quick Tip To Change The Location File Based DNS Database: Date - Feb 24, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can change the location of DNS Database of file based DNS Servers.
How To Check If A Service Is Running or Not On Multiple Servers: Date - Feb 16, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can use a small CMD script to check the status of a service on multiple computers.
How To Compress using Command Line tool?: Date - Feb 16, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can use Compress.exe, a command line tool, to compress files on Windows Computers.
How To Enable Hibernation On Multiple Computers: Date - Feb 15, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can enable Hibernation on multiple computers using a CMD script or Group Policy.
A Quick Tip To Check If A Port Is Listening On Multiple Computers: Date - Feb 09, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can check if a port is listening on multiple computers.
How To Recover From A Corrupt Registry Branch: Date - Dec 29, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can recover from a corrupted registry branch.
A Quick Tip To Change RPC Port Range: Date - Dec 29, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the MaxUserPort registry entry for RPC.
Default Dynamic Port Range: Date - Dec 23, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the default dynamic port range used by the client computers.
Which Service Is Responsible To Register A and PTR Records In DNS?: Date - Dec 22, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the service which is responsible to register DNS Records on behalf of client computers. This tip applies to Windows 7 also.
A Quick Tip To Check Schedule Tasks On Remote Computers: Date - Dec 15, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can use Schtasks.exe with Psexec.exe to check schedule Tasks on remote computers.
Delegating Server Controls: Date - Dec 10, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article contains a few links you can use to delegate basic server administrations to junior Administrators.
Why DNS Works On Both TCP and UDP: Date - Dec 09, 2010; Rating - 3.3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains why DNS works on both the protocols; TCP and UDP.
Add Domain User To Local Administrators Group: Date - Dec 09, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can use Psexec.exe to add a domain user to local administrators Security group.
A Quick Tip To Create Shared Folders Remotely: Date - Dec 07, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can create shared folders remotely on remote computers.
A Quick Tip To Create a Dependable Service: Date - Dec 02, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can create a service dependable on another service.
A Quick Tip To Reconfigure Windows Time Service: Date - Dec 01, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can reconfigure Windows Time Service
A Quick Tip To Check Operating System Architecture: Date - Nov 30, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This tip explains how you can check Operating System architecture on a computer running Windows Operating System.
Checking Page File Location On Remote Computers: Date - Nov 25, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can check the Pagefile location on remote computers.
How To Backup Shared Folders List On A Computer: Date - Nov 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can save the Shared Folders list on a computer.
How To Script PsLogList.EXE To Check Event Logs On Remote Computers: Date - Nov 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can script PsLogList.exe to check Event Logs on Remote Computers and save the output in the CSV format.
Three Ways To Check Event Logs On Remote Computers: Date - Nov 23, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can check Event Logs on remote computer.
How To Change Comment Field For Multiple Servers: Date - Nov 18, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can change the Comment Field located on My Computer for Infrastructure Servers.
A Quick Tip Restrict Users From Modifying The Schedule Tasks: Date - Nov 17, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can restrict users from deleting a schedule task created by an administrator
A Quick Tip To Process System Idle Tasks Forcefully: Date - Jun 15, 2010; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can process the System Idle Tasks on Windows Computers. This tip applies to Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 Computers.
A Quick Tip To Prevent Users From Seeing Schedule Tasks: Date - Jun 15, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can prevent users from accessing the Schedule Tasks created by Administrators or users.
How To Set Multiple Services On Multiple Remote Computers: Date - Jun 15, 2010; Rating - 2.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains setting up multiple services on remote computers.
A Quick Tip To Modify Logon Rights On Multiple Computers: Date - Sep 24, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a simple command you can use to modify the "Log On Locally" rights on all the server remotely.
A Quick Tip To Get A List Of Security Groups A User Belongs To: Date - Sep 17, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a quick tip you can use to get the list of Security Groups a user or users belong/s to.
A Quick Tip To Get Members Of Security Groups: Date - Sep 17, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a command which you can use to get the members of security group or security groups mentioned in a text file.
What To Check If A Single User Can't Log On To Domain?: Date - Jan 29, 2009; Rating - 3.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the tips you can use to troubleshoot the problem for a user who can't log on to the domain.
A Quick Tip To Fix The Blank Windows Screen: Date - Dec 10, 2008; Rating - 3.3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a quick fix you can use to solve the issue with Windows blank screen.
How To Check If Servers In DMZ Are Up and Running Or Pinging?: Date - Nov 26, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the steps you have use to make sure the Servers in the DMZ are pinging from a Desktop computer which is running out of the DMZ.
Which DC Is Selected When Promoting A Member Server To DC?: Date - Nov 11, 2008; Rating - 2.7; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article discusses the a mechanism used by the DCPromo.exe to select a DC when promoting a member server to Domain Controller.
FRS D2/D4 - When Should You Use Them?: Date - Nov 11, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article discusses about D2 and D4 of File Replication Service in Active Directory and when should you use them?
How To Know The Primary Member of A SYSVOL Replica Set?: Date - Nov 06, 2008; Rating - 2; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how to determine the Primary Member of a SYSVOL Replica Set in an Active Directory domain.
A Quick Tip To Make Sure FRS Is Working In A Domain: Date - Oct 29, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a small mechanism you can use to make sure FRS is working.
When Delegation Doesn't Seem to Take: Date - Dec 09, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Sometimes you delegate a task to a user, and then later on they can't perform that task. Why?
Monitor Share Usage for File Server Migration: Date - Apr 07, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Leon Funnell; How to monitor share access on a file server.
Recover Lost Windows NT Administrator Password: Date - Sep 07, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples
Restricting the Enterprise Administrators Group: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples
Active Directory Remote Admin Scripts: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples
Microsoft's Administration Tools for Windows 2000: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.6; Author - Wayne Maples
Win9x user accounts become workstation Administrators after upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2; Author - Wayne Maples