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241) When to shorten your DHCP lease period: Date - Oct 25, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; When to shorten your DHCP lease period
242) Fixed Size vs. Dynamically Expanding Virtual Hard Disks: Date - Oct 19, 2006; Rating - 2.8; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Virtual Platforms; Dynamically expanding virtual hard disks seem like the obvious choice when setting up a virtual machine, but when is this not such a good idea?
243) Get control of your severs using Startup/Shutdown Script: Date - Oct 18, 2006; Rating - 3.1; Author - Santhosh Sivarajan; Section - Active Directory; In many situations we need to reset the Local Administrator password and add Domain Admins to the Local Administrator group on a server or client machine without visiting each machine. If you don’t know the password and don’t have access to the severs, you can run this simple script as a Startup/Shutdown script in conjunction with Group Policy.
244) Configure ABE on a clustered file server: Date - Oct 17, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to configure ABE on a clustered file server
245) Configure ABE from the command line: Date - Oct 12, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to configure ABE from the command line.
246) Custom Provider Creation in MOM: Date - Oct 11, 2006; Rating - 5; Author - Santhosh Sivarajan; Section - Admin; Sometimes we need to use custom providers to create MOM Rules. Here is an example of creating a custom provider to return free hard drive space information from drive H.
247) Minimizing the performance hit from using ABE: Date - Oct 10, 2006; Rating - 1.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to minimize the performance hit from using ABE.
248) Determining Memory Requirements for Virtual Server: Date - Oct 05, 2006; Rating - 3.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Virtual Platforms; When planning for a Virtual Server deployment there are a few extra considerations to think about when determining your memory requirements.
249) Using Virtual Server Security: Date - Oct 02, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Virtual Platforms; Knowledge of configuring user access to Virtual Server is something that no virtual network administration should be lacking.
250) Can't Ping the Server: Date - Sep 07, 2006; Rating - 3.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Why you can't ping some Windows servers and how to fix it.
251) Using a Script to Add a Domain User to a Local Group: Date - Aug 31, 2006; Rating - 3.6; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; There are sometimes situations when you need to be able to script the process of adding a domain user to a local group on a machine. Here is a script that will do just that.
252) Redirecting Command Line Output to the Clipboard: Date - Aug 24, 2006; Rating - 4.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows Server 2003 has a great feature which allows you to pipe output from the command line to the clipboard. Here is how to use it.
253) Managing Multiple Virtual Servers in One Place: Date - Aug 17, 2006; Rating - 4.2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; A lot of people are under the impression that to manage multiple virtual servers you need to log onto them all interactively. This tip debunks that myth.
254) Copying Profiles Using Sysprep: Date - Aug 10, 2006; Rating - 3.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; There is a feature that is recently new to Sysprep that can speed up your time and get rid of one of the larger headaches of using the tool.
255) Things Not to Do When Implementing Roaming Profiles: Date - Aug 03, 2006; Rating - 3.8; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; Roaming profiles are very finicky when it comes to certain things. Here is a list of things NOT to do when implementing roaming profiles.
256) Forcing Active Directory Replication: Date - Jul 27, 2006; Rating - 4.3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; There may be some instances where you need to force replication between active directory replication partners. Here I will show you one method of doing this.
257) Authoritative vs. Non-Authoritative Restoration of Active Directory: Date - Jul 20, 2006; Rating - 4.2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; It is the absolute worst case scenario possible; your domain controller has crashed. So what type of restore do you do?
258) Default GPO Permissions: Date - Jul 13, 2006; Rating - 3.7; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; It is very important to assign appropriate permissions to every GPO you create. Here I list the default permissions given to a new GPO.
259) Increase file server performance: Date - Jul 12, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Don't use your domain controller as a file server--here's why.
260) Why do we still need WINS?: Date - Jul 11, 2006; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Why do we still need WINS servers on AD networks?
261) Setting up a VPN on the Go: Date - Jul 06, 2006; Rating - 3.2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; Setting up a VPN in Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP is something that is fairly easy to do in no time at all. Here is a no fluff guide on how to get it done.
262) Keyboard Shortcuts within Remote Desktop: Date - Jun 29, 2006; Rating - 3.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; The various keyboard shortcuts used in Windows change when within a remote desktop window. Here is a list of the more common ones.
263) Listing your GPOs and GPO links: Date - Jun 27, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to list all your GPOs and their GPO links.
264) Automating Disk Defragmentation: Date - Jun 22, 2006; Rating - 4.2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 both include a new way to invoke the Windows defragmenter via the command line. This allows for easy automation of this task.
265) Accessing Preference Mode Internet Explorer Setting in Group Policy: Date - Jun 15, 2006; Rating - 3.7; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; Group Policy contains many hidden jewels that are not always easy to find. Here we look at some advanced internet explorer settings that aren’t readily visible to the naked eye.
266) Running chkdsk on very large volumes: Date - Jun 13, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Using DFS to get around long wait times checking very large volumes.
267) Managing Microsoft Office Applications with Group Policy: Date - Jun 08, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; In organizations where Microsoft Office is commonplace on workstations, the ability to manage settings within those applications can come in handy. I will show you how we can manage those settings via Group Policy
268) Determining system up time: Date - Jun 06, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to find the up time for a system.
269) How to change membership in groups based on attributes of users in AD automatically: Date - Jun 01, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Rostislav Soukup; Section - Active Directory; If your company has a complicated structure, you may need to filter members of your security or distribution groups automatically based on changes to some attribute of users in Active Directory – let's say Department.
270) Web-based AD management: Date - May 31, 2006; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; A web-based interface to Active Directory you should know about.