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31) Apply Server 2008 Group Policy to Windows XP Devices: Date - Nov 24, 2009; Rating - 4.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; Windows Server 2008 Group Policy provides several new features that ease network administration. In order to apply these new settings to your Windows XP devices a couple of extra steps will need to be taken.
32) Using Group Policy vs. Registry Tweaks: Date - Nov 18, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Why is it better to use Group Policy to modify the registry than to use Registry Editor itself?
33) Changing the IP Address of a Server: Date - Oct 09, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; Changing the IP address of a Windows server requires some special consideration. Here are a couple of things to make note of when doing this.
34) Accessing Directory Services Restore Mode Remotely: Date - Sep 25, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; Directory Services Restore Mode can be accessed remotely using some unique procedures. Here we look at how this is done.
35) When to use GPT disks: Date - May 21, 2009; Rating - 3.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; When you should choose GPT disks over MBR.
36) 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.
37) How Do You Change The RDP Port No?: Date - Dec 17, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; This articles explains a registry entry you can modify to change the default RDP Port No. for Terminal Services.
38) Service Records of Domain Controller used by Various Services and Components: Date - Dec 03, 2008; Rating - 2.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains what all components or Services use the SRV records of domain controller.
39) Managing Office 2007 with Group Policy: Date - Jun 10, 2008; Rating - 2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Applications; Office 2007 provides some great new ways to be managed via group policy. Here is what you have to do to utilize those.
40) How Global Name Zones Work In Windows Server 2008?: Date - Jan 14, 2009; Rating - 2; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Network; This article shows the steps included when resolving a name in DNS Server running on Windows Server 2008.
41) When Should You Restart FRS?: Date - Nov 19, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article discusses the Regsitry entries of File Replication Service and when should you restart the FRS service for the changes to take effect.
42) Dynamic Port Range in Windows Server 2008: Date - Dec 09, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Network; This article explains the default Dynamic Port range in Windows Server 2008 and how to see the range using the NetSH command line tool.
43) Tip To Check Network and DNS Settings Before Deploying A DC or Domain: Date - Mar 19, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a small tip or syntax of a command you can use to check the network and DNS settings before deploying a child domain or additional domain controller in an existing forest.
44) TCP Chimney Offload and Windows Server 2008: Date - Feb 24, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; How to verify that your server is utilizing the capabilities of a NIC that supports TCP Chimney Offload.
45) Securing DNS with Secure Dynamic Updates: Date - Sep 04, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; DNS is crucial to the operation of a DNS domain. Using Secure Dynamic Updates is something you can do to make your DNS infrastructure a bit more secure.
46) Configuring Zone Transfers using DNSCMD: Date - Nov 05, 2009; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; How to configure and force zone transfers using DNSCMD.
47) Terminal Services Advertising in Windows Server 2008: Date - Dec 18, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; This article explains a registry entry for Terminal Services to disable/enable advertising.
48) Introducing the Read-Only Domain Controller: Date - Jun 03, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; A new Windows Server 2008 feature that is drawing great praise is the introduction of the Read-Only Domain Controller. Let’s look at what this means to you.
49) A Quick Tip To Fix DC SRVs in Active Directory Domain: Date - Dec 02, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains how you can use few simple commands to fix the SRV records of a Domain Controller in an Active Directory Domain.
50) The Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Console Switch...Or Lack Thereof: Date - May 14, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; After a terminal services platform upgrade to Windows Server 2008, you may be shocked to find that the console switch is no longer an option when connecting to the terminal server. Where did it go?
51) How To Take System State Backup In Server Core: Date - Oct 14, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; Take System State backup in Server Core.
52) A Quick Tip To Enable Terminal Services Access For Previous Versions of Windows: Date - Sep 18, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; Allow previous versions of Windows to access Windows Server 2008 Server Core using Terminal Services.
53) Block Users from Seeing or Connecting to Other Wi-Fi Networks: Date - Jul 02, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security; Filtering networks using the WLAN Netsh commands.
54) Creating a Central Store for Group Policy Templates: Date - May 28, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista utilize the ADMX format for a more efficient group policy implementation in regards to administrative templates. You can better manage administrative templates for group policy by using a central store.
55) Displaying DHCP scope activity using Netsh: Date - Aug 19, 2009; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; You can use the Netsh command to display statistics for a single scope on your DHCP server.
56) 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.
57) How To Change The Bakcup Interval Of DHCP Database: Date - Jan 06, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Network; This article explains how you can change the Backup Interval of DHCP using a registry entry.
58) Remove/Disable Cached 802.1X/PEAP Login Information (in Vista): Date - Jun 02, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Security; Stop Vista from saving the username and password used for authenication.
59) Issues after disabling administrative shares: Date - Nov 12, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Here are several reasons why you should never disable the default administrative shares on Windows computers, especially in an enterprise (managed) environment.
60) A Quick Tip To Prevent Users From Accessing The Computer Tab: Date - Jul 21, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains a quick tip which you can use to prevent users from accessing the Computer Tab on My Computer property.