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Latest "Windows 2003" Tips

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1) Installing components from the command line: Date - Jul 19, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to install Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system components from the command line.
2) Discover a Hidden Wireless Network’s SSID (Network Name): Date - Jun 08, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Recover the Network Name from a Wi-Fi network that's not broadcasting its SSID.
3) Disable Mapped Drive Reconnect Warning: Date - May 10, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Stop the annoying error message about unavailable mapped network drives or shares.
4) Change Network Bridge Settings: Date - May 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Change the Forwarding and/or STA settings of Network Bridges in Windows.
5) Load Balancing Among Multiple Network Adapters: Date - May 04, 2011; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Make Windows randomly distribute connections across muliple network adapters.
6) Respond to WINS Queries with Only One IP when Using Multiple Adapters: Date - May 04, 2011; Rating - 2; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Make Windows respond to WINS queries with one IP instead of all IPs of the muliple adapters.
7) Hide a Server from the Microsoft Computer Browser Service: Date - Apr 26, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Stop sending announcements to the domain.
8) AutoRestartShell And Windows: Date - Mar 08, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use a registry entry to enable auto restart of Explorer.exe shell if it stops unexpectedly.
9) Minimize Number Of Repeated Entries In System Log By NetLogon: Date - Mar 03, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use a registry hack to increase the interval for logging duplicate event entries in the System Event Log by the NetLogon service.
10) A Quick Tip To Change KCC Interval: Date - Mar 02, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can change the KCC Interval on Windows Domain Controllers.
11) How To Enable Publishing Of APIPA Records In DNS Server: Date - Mar 02, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use a small registry hack to enable building of APIPA records in DNS Server.
12) How To Disable Caching Of A DNS Record: Date - Mar 01, 2011; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can disable caching of DNS Resource Records for a DNS Server.
13) 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.
14) 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.
15) 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.
16) How To Compress using Command Line tool?: Date - Feb 16, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use Compress.exe, a command line tool, to compress files on Windows Computers.
17) 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.
18) A Quick Tip To Check If A Port Is Listening On Multiple Computers: Date - Feb 09, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can check if a port is listening on multiple computers.
19) Configure Static IP with the Netsh Command-Line Utility: Date - Feb 02, 2011; Rating - 2.5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; Manually set the IP address of network connections via the Command Prompt.
20) Securing 802.1X Authentication Settings: Date - Jan 27, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security
21) A Quick Tip To Prevent NetLogon Service From Registering SRV and Domain Records: Date - Jan 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article explains how you can use a registry hack to prevent NetLogon from registering SRV, CNAME and Domain DNS Records in the DNS Server.
22) A Quick Tip To Prevent Registration Of A and GC Records For Domain Controllers: Date - Jan 04, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article explains how you can prevent NetLogon service from registering A record for Domain Name and Global Catalog.
23) How To Recover From A Corrupt Registry Branch: Date - Dec 29, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can recover from a corrupted registry branch.
24) A Quick Tip To Change RPC Port Range: Date - Dec 29, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article explains the MaxUserPort registry entry for RPC.
25) Default Dynamic Port Range: Date - Dec 23, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains the default dynamic port range used by the client computers.
26) Functions Of NetLogon Service On Domain Controllers: Date - Dec 22, 2010; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains the functions of NetLogon Service on domain controllers.
27) Which Service Is Responsible To Register A and PTR Records In DNS?: Date - Dec 22, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains the service which is responsible to register DNS Records on behalf of client computers. This tip applies to Windows 7 also.
28) What Are The Two Things Required To Recover From AD Disaster?: Date - Dec 21, 2010; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains the two important things required to recover from AD Disaster.
29) A Quick Tip To Check Schedule Tasks On Remote Computers: Date - Dec 15, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use Schtasks.exe with Psexec.exe to check schedule Tasks on remote computers.
30) Group Policy Objects and Gpotool.EXE: Date - Dec 15, 2010; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains how you can use Gpotool.exe to check the sync problem with Group Policy Objects.