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1) Add Domain User To Local Administrators Group: Date - Dec 09, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use Psexec.exe to add a domain user to local administrators Security group.
2) "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.
3) A Quick Tip To Check Operating System Architecture: Date - Nov 30, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This tip explains how you can check Operating System architecture on a computer running Windows Operating System.
4) A Quick Tip To Create A User Mode Process Dump File: Date - Jul 16, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can use ADPlus.vbs to create a User Mode Process dump file when a process terminates unexpectedly.
5) A Quick Tip To Enable White Space Logging: Date - Oct 01, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains the use of White Space Logging and how you enable it on the domain controllers.
6) A Quick Tip To Get A List Of Security Groups A User Belongs To: Date - Sep 17, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a quick tip you can use to get the list of Security Groups a user or users belong/s to.
7) A Quick Tip To Get Members Of Security Groups: Date - Sep 17, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a command which you can use to get the members of security group or security groups mentioned in a text file.
8) A Quick Tip To Prevent Users From Accessing The Computer Tab: Date - Jul 21, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a quick tip which you can use to prevent users from accessing the Computer Tab on My Computer property.
9) A Quick Tip To Reconfigure Windows Time Service: Date - Dec 01, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can reconfigure Windows Time Service
10) Change the Owner or Organization Name of Windows: Date - Nov 03, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Miscellaneous; How to modify the names you inputted during the Windows install.
11) Checking the Location of Domain FSMO Roles: Date - Jul 03, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; Here is a quick tip to finding out where the FSMO roles for a domain are located.
12) Comparing RSoP before and after: Date - Apr 26, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to compare RSoP before and after making changes to your Group Policy infrastructure.
13) 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.
14) Delegating Server Controls: Date - Dec 10, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article contains a few links you can use to delegate basic server administrations to junior Administrators.
15) Detecting RAID controller cards during Setup: Date - Jun 06, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Troubleshooting USB floppy drive issues that cause text mode Setup to fail.
16) 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.
17) Disabling System Speaker Output from Virtual Server: Date - Dec 07, 2006; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Virtual Platforms; The type of beep a virtual machine can push out from a virtual server is something that you may be dying to disable. This is how you do it.
18) 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.
19) Enable Viewing of All Processes for Non-Administrative Users on a Terminal Server: Date - Feb 07, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; Terminal Servers typically only displays the processes for all users logged on to it to administrators. You can change that with a simple registry hack.
20) Fix a Stalled WSUS Update Service: Date - May 07, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Applications; I’ve heard many people complain about not being able to install WSUS because the service just won’t stay running. This is an easy fix.
21) Geographically Dispersed Clusters in Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 201 KB Microsoft Word file - This paper discusses multi-site network load balancing and server cluster configurations, along with how to deploy geographically dispersed clusters. Also covered are key server cluster features in Windows Server 2003.
22) 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.
23) 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.
24) 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.
25) 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.
26) Logging Windows Firewall: Date - Mar 15, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; The built-in windows firewall won’t only stop unwanted traffic at your doorstep, it will log it too!
27) Moving the Default Spooling Directory: Date - Mar 11, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; In some scenarios, you may need to move the default spooling location for printers on a system. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do that.
28) Prevent accidental deletion of OUs: Date - Dec 12, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; Trying to prevent accidental deletion of OUs
29) Resizing a VHD: Date - Mar 13, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Virtual Platforms; How to expand a virtual hard drive.
30) Securing your Event logs: Date - Jun 07, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Preventing rogue administrators from tampering with Event logs.