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. Cut and Paste Virtual Directories

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 6 Sept. 2005
    • Section: Network

    It would be nice if one could cut and paste a virtual directory from one IIS website to another... Read More

  2. Metabase Changes Not Applied Immediately

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 31 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    IIS 6 on W2K3 lets you edit the metabase directly using a text editor like Notepad... Read More

  3. Changing Worker Process Identity in IIS 6

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 30 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    In IIS 6 on W2K3, all worker processes run by default using NetworkService as their identity... Read More

  4. Avoiding Metabase Corruption

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 11 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    IIS 6 on W2K3 has a new feature that helps prevent metabase corruption... Read More

  5. Limitation of WebDAV on IIS

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 10 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    IIS 5/6 has a limitation on how WebDAV works and which you should know about before implementing WebDAV... Read More

  6. Listing All DHCP Servers

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 9 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    Want to know the DNS names and IP addresses of all DHCP servers on your network?... Read More

  7. Preventing Rogue DHCP Clients

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 4 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    If you are using DHCP on your network and you want to prevent rogue clients from obtaining IP addresses from your DHCP server and participating on your network, your options are simple... Read More

  8. W2K3 DHCP vs. SBS2K3 DHCP

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 3 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    There's an important difference in how DHCP works on a W2K3 DHCP server as compared to a Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2K3) box... Read More

  9. Netsh dhcp not working

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 2 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    Have trouble running the netsh dhcp command to configure your DHCP servers?... Read More

  10. ADC Before or After the User Migration

    • by Santhosh Sivarajan
    • Published on 28 July 2005
    • Section: Exchange

    Do you install and configure Active Directory Connector (ADC) before or after the user migration? The answer to this “complicated” question is either you can install and configure ADC and Connection Agreements (CAs) before or after the user migration. Here are my explanations for both scenarios... Read More

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