Admin Tips

Last Updated on 19 July 2011, Total: 361 Knowledge Base Tips

37 Active Directory
76 Admin
9 Applications
4 Exchange
11 Migration
66 Miscellaneous
62 Network
77 Security
12 Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
7 Virtual Platforms

  1. File server performance

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 29 Nov. 2005
    • Section: Admin

    How to prevent Shadow Copies from becoming a bottleneck on file servers... Read More

  2. Find Out When Policy Last Applied

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 8 June 2005
    • Section: Security

    How to find out when Group Policy was last applied to a remote machine... Read More

  3. Find all encrypted files

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 8 Jan. 2008
    • Section: Security

    How to find all the EFS encrypted files on a machine... Read More

  4. Finding Out Why a Service Won't Start

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 3 Jan. 2007
    • Section: Admin

    How to display service exit codes... Read More

  5. Finding Service Dependencies

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 2 Jan. 2007
    • Section: Admin

    How to use sc.exe to find service dependencies... Read More

  6. Finding Significant Security Events

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 20 July 2005
    • Section: Security

    How to sort the wheat from the chaff in Windows Security logs... Read More

  7. Finding and Fixing Duplicate SIDs on the Network

    Duplicate SIDs on the network can cause all types of problems. Why would we have duplicate SIDs and how to we correct it?... Read More

  8. Finding and deleting zero sized files

    Cool command-line trick for finding and deleting bogus files... Read More

  9. Finding global catalog servers

    How to find all GCs in a domain... Read More

  10. Finding schema differences

    How to find schema differences between two forests... Read More

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