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241) Exporting DNS zone information: Date - Jul 10, 2007; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; How to expert your DNS zone info.
242) Enabling Services in Recovery Console: Date - Dec 13, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to enable a service using Recovery Console.
243) Changing Permissions on Objects in Exchange: Date - Jan 29, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Exchange; Changing permissions on objects in Exchange is not available without a little bit of tweaking. This article will show how to do that.
244) Change Management During Deployment: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 206 KB Microsoft Word file - This white paper outlines some of the many ways Windows Server 2003 and the .NET Framework make it easy for administrators to deploy updates to managed applications securely and efficiently. It describes the sophisticated change management, versioning, and deployment features that offer increased efficiency, reliability, and time savings.
245) A Quick Tip To Strict AD Replication To A Specific Port: Date - Oct 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry entry which can be used to strict the AD Replication traffic to a specific port.
246) A Quick Tip To Strict FRS Replication To A Specific Port: Date - Oct 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry heck which can be used to strict FRS Replication to a specific port.
247) A Quick Tip To Prevent Users From Seeing Schedule Tasks: Date - Jun 15, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can prevent users from accessing the Schedule Tasks created by Administrators or users.
248) 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.
249) A Quick Tip To Place Authenticating DC In DFS Referral List: Date - Oct 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry entry which can be used to place the authenticating domain controller on top of the DFS Referral list.
250) A Quick Tip To Prevent NetLogon Service From Registering SRV and Domain Records: Date - Jan 05, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; 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.
251) 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 - Active Directory; This article explains how you can prevent NetLogon service from registering A record for Domain Name and Global Catalog.
252) A Quick Tip To Make Sure FRS Is Working In A Domain: Date - Oct 29, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a small mechanism you can use to make sure FRS is working.
253) A Quick Tip To Create Shared Folders Remotely: Date - Dec 07, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can create shared folders remotely on remote computers.
254) 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.
255) A Quick Tip To Create a Dependable Service: Date - Dec 02, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can create a service dependable on another service.
256) A Quick Tip To Create A Kernel Memory Dump File Manually: Date - Jun 24, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can create a Kernel Memory dump file for diagnostic purpose.
257) A Common Misconception Regarding Security Logs: Date - Oct 27, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Do domain controllers share security logs?
258) A Quick Tip Restrict Users From Modifying The Schedule Tasks: Date - Nov 17, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can restrict users from deleting a schedule task created by an administrator
259) 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.
260) A Quick Tip To Change RPC Port Range: Date - Dec 29, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains the MaxUserPort registry entry for RPC.
261) 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.
262) A Quick Tip To Check For Morphed Folders In An Active Directory Forest: Date - Nov 16, 2010; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains how you can check for morphed folders in an Active Directory forest.
263) 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.
264) Limitation of WebDAV on IIS: Date - Aug 10, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; IIS 5/6 has a limitation on how WebDAV works and which you should know about before implementing WebDAV.
265) Listening ports and services: Date - Nov 20, 2007; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to find what ports your server is listening on and which service is listening on each port
266) Maximizing Availability on the Windows Server 2003 Platform: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 207 KB Microsoft Word file - This article examines the five components of the Microsoft strategy for helping customers maximize solution availability with Windows Server 2003. The strategy encompasses verifying operating system reliability during the Windows engineering process, understanding the causes of downtime, deploying new features and product enhancements that reduce downtime, providing mission-critical capabilities and services, and delivering prescriptive guidance and best practices.
267) Maximum number of services: Date - Oct 16, 2007; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to see if you are hitting the limit for number of services on a server.
268) Migrating Win32 Applications to Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Migration; 246 KB Microsoft Word file - This includes applications such as Visual Basic®, 32-bit Windows-based applications, and Web applications written using Active Server Pages (ASP).
269) Microsoft's Technical Resources for Windows Server 2003: Date - Aug 03, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
270) Microsoft Windows Clustering: Storage Area Networks: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 655 KB Microsoft Word file - This document describes what storage area networks (SAN) are, how server clusters can be deployed in a SAN, and how the Windows platform, and Windows clustering in particular, take advantage of SAN technology.