Admin Tips

Last Updated on 27 Sept. 2016, Total: 300 Knowledge Base Tips

53 Active Directory
123 Admin
1 Applications
3 Exchange
13 Migration
20 Miscellaneous
45 Network
22 Security
10 Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
9 Virtual Platforms

  1. Troubleshooting: Changing the timeout on the WDS boot screen

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 26 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    How to troubleshoot a problem where you try to change the default timeout value for the Windows Deployment Services boot screen but your change doesn't take effect... Read More

  2. Troubleshooting: Indexing is not running on Windows Server 2008

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 8 Nov. 2011
    • Section: Admin

    Describes how to troubleshoot the issue "Indexing is not running" on Windows Server 2008... Read More

  3. Troubleshooting: Out-of-box driver deployment using WDS

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 26 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    How to troubleshoot a problem where you try to deploy a driver to a computer using Windows Deployment Services and you get the message "Error 0xe0000228: There are no compatible drivers for this device"... Read More

  4. Troubleshooting: Remote Desktop connection to server fails

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 17 May 2012
    • Section: Admin

    An example of how to resolve a problem where you can’t Remote Desktop into a server using a saved .rdp connectoid that previously worked just fine... Read More

  5. Troubleshooting: Running 32-bit color app in a virtual machine

    A tip on how to run an application that requires 32-bit color in a virtual machine running on a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V host... Read More

  6. UAC and Remote Desktop Services

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 9 Feb. 2012
    • Section: Admin

    Should you enable or disable UAC on a server that has the Remote Desktop Services role installed?... Read More

  7. Unintended Consequences of Server Hardening

    A tip about some unintended consequences of server hardening and how the issue was resolved... Read More

  8. Updating root certificates

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 29 Aug. 2011
    • Section: Security

    How to determine what root certificates are supported by Windows... Read More

  9. Upgrading other Windows Server editions to Data Center

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 28 June 2016
    • Section: Migration

    A tip about a super-speedy In-Place Upgrade of Windows Server 2008 Standard to Enterprise or Data Center... Read More

  10. Use Auditing To Track Changes to Shared Folders

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 6 Sept. 2011
    • Section: Security

    Changes to folders and files in shared folders can be logged in the Event Viewer... Read More

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