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1) 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.
2) 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.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) Deploy WSUS Updates to a Workgroup: Date - Jul 24, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; In some instances you may need to deploy updates with WSUS to a workgroup that is not a part of your domain. This can be done with a quick registry edit.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) How To Forcefully Close A File On Remote Computer Using Command Line?: Date - Aug 24, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article explains the steps you can use to close a file forcefully on a remote computer.
15) 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!
16) 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.
17) Prevent accidental deletion of OUs: Date - Dec 12, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; Trying to prevent accidental deletion of OUs
18) Refresh Group Policy Remotely: Date - Jun 06, 2005; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to refresh Group Policy remotely from the command line.
19) Resizing a VHD: Date - Mar 13, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Virtual Platforms; How to expand a virtual hard drive.
20) Securing your Event logs: Date - Jun 07, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Preventing rogue administrators from tampering with Event logs.
21) Simplifying Quota Management with Quota Templates: Date - Apr 08, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; Disk Quotas are a great way to manage physical disk space, but managing them can become cumbersome. Quota templates are a good way to help with this
22) Sysprepping and VM Additions: Date - Apr 02, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Virtual Platforms; Sysprepping virtual machines that have VM Additions installed.
23) 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.
24) TechNet Webcast: Enterprise Reporting using Crystal Enterprise 9 and Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Admin; 82 minutes - you will see how Crystal Enterprise 9 can provide enterprise reporting, analysis and information delivery your organization is looking for. Optimized for enterprise reliability and scalability running on Windows Server 2003, Crystal Enterprise 9 can provide employees across the enterprise with immediate and secure access to up-to-date information. Crystal Decisions solutions enable you to leverage your investments in strategic information systems such as ERP, CRM or data warehousing and maximize your ROI. This seminar will help you understand the benefits of enterprise reporting
25) TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2003 Maintenance Best Practices: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 70 mins - This session will uncover ways to make maintenance best practices become common place in an environment and alleviate many of the common firefighting pitfalls.
26) TechNet Webcast: Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM): Managing processing resources with Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 86 minutes - Microsoft Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) provides resource management and enables the allocation of resources, including processor and memory resources, among multiple applications based on business priorities with Windows Server 2003.
27) Uninstalling WSUS: Date - May 15, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; One common problem you may encounter with WSUS is when you go to uninstall it. WSUS has a nasty habit of simply not uninstalling correctly. Here is a quick way to remedy this.
28) Verifying the /3GB switch: Date - Aug 14, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to verify memory allocation when the /3GB switch is used.
29) Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Capacity and Scaling: Date - Jul 03, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 469 KB Microsoft Word file - Microsoft Windows Terminal Server lets users run Windows®-based applications on a remote computer running one of the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. This white paper contains testing methodologies, results, analysis, and sizing guidelines for Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server.
30) Security Patches as ISO images: Date - Feb 21, 2006; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; You can obtain patches for Windows as an ISO (CD) image.