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. Preventing Orphaned GPO’s

    When you remove a computer from a domain there are a few steps you should take to ensure that its GPO settings are removed properly as well... Read More

  2. Forcing Group Policy to Run at Startup

    Group policy can be quirky in the way it runs at startup, often taking two or three reboots before it actually applies to a machine. Here we are going to look at the cause of this and how to fix it... Read More

  3. Securing your Event logs

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 7 June 2007
    • Section: Security

    Preventing rogue administrators from tampering with Event logs... Read More

  4. Detecting RAID controller cards during Setup

    Troubleshooting USB floppy drive issues that cause text mode Setup to fail... Read More

  5. Modifying ACLs from the command line

    Using a script to modify permissions... Read More

  6. Monitoring Paging Activity

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 30 May 2007
    • Section: Admin

    Which performance counter to use to monitor hard page faults... Read More

  7. Group Membership in Multi-Forest Scenarios

    Clearing up uncertainty around some Microsoft documentation on how groups can be nested... Read More

  8. Active Directory replication in a multilingual environment

    Active Directory replication in a multilingual environment... Read More

  9. Prevent saving to desktop

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 10 May 2007
    • Section: Admin

    How to prevent users from cluttering up their desktops with files... Read More

  10. Disabling network configuration settings using Group Policy

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 8 May 2007
    • Section: Network

    How to disable network configuration settings using Group Policy... Read More

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