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Miscellaneous Tips

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Deleting zillions of tiny files from a volume: Date - Jun 15, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to delete zillions of tiny files from a volume without taking forever.
Determining the UUID of a computer: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to use WMI to determine the UUID of a computer.
Enable Network Support for the Recycle Bin: Date - Jul 22, 2009; Rating - 2.6; Author - Eric Geier; Using a Recycle Bin replacement to protect network shares.
Enable Remote Desktop for Server Core: Date - Apr 30, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; One of the first tasks you may want to do on Windows Server 2008 Server core is to enable remote desktop. Here is how to do it.
Enabling BugcheckOnCorrupt for NTFS Volumes: Date - Mar 03, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to enable BugcheckOnCorrupt for advanced self-healing of NTFS volumes on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
How To Allow System State Backups To Critical Volumes In Windows Server 2008?: Date - Jan 14, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a registry hack you can use to allow System State to be backed up to a critical volume in Windows Server 2008.
How To Forcefully Close A File On Remote Computer Using Command Line?: Date - Aug 24, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the steps you can use to close a file forcefully on a remote computer.
How to share files between a Hyper-V host and its virtual machines: Date - Feb 25, 2011; Rating - 1.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here is how you can share files between a Hyper-V host and any virtual machines running on that host.
Issues using Windows Server 2008 as a workstation OS: Date - Sep 23, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Some users like to run a server OS such as Windows Server 2008 on their workstations. This tip describes some of the issue you may encounter when you do this.
Managing Hardware RAID Using Diskraid: Date - Mar 09, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to manage hardware RAID using the Diskraid command
Replacing the Default User Profile in Windows 7: Date - Jun 30, 2010; Rating - 2.8; Author - Chris Sanders; Creating a customized user profile and replacing the default user profile with it is a common administrative task, but works a bit differently in Windows 7.
Search for Files on Server Core: Date - Feb 24, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; How to search for files or folders on a volume on a Server Core computer.
Specifying the boot image order in Windows Deployment Services: Date - Jun 01, 2011; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; You want to specify the order in which boot images are displayed when using Windows Deployment Services.
Staging Files to Virtual Machines: Date - May 17, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here's a tip on how you can quickly stage files from your Hyper-V R2 host computer to a virtual machine on that host.
Stress Testing File Server Capacity: Date - Mar 29, 2011; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Testing file servers for a supported workload has always been something that’s challenging outside of an actually deploying a server and seeing how it performs. Microsoft is currently testing a product which should allow for this to be done with great ease.
Troubleshooting failure to install of Exchange 2010 due to DNS issues: Date - Feb 08, 2011; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; What to do if you try to install Exchange 2010 and get an error saying that the DNS server could not be resolved.
Using a Projector with Windows 7: Date - Jul 15, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Chris Sanders; Is there a worse fear than walking up in front of a crown to give a presentation, hooking your laptop up to a projector, and having the fiddle with it for 10 minutes before you can get things showing up correctly? Windows 7 has a great solution to this.
Using the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder: Date - Jul 15, 2010; Rating - 3.3; Author - Chris Sanders; One of the most useful new features in Windows 7 for those who troubleshoot desktops is the new Problem Steps Recorder. What can it do for you?
Utility: Booting from USB flash drives: Date - Aug 12, 2010; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Here's a handy utility you can use to boot from USB flash drives.
When not to use NTFS compression: Date - Mar 04, 2009; Rating - 2.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; NTFS compression usually works fine on client systems, but be careful using it on servers.
When to use GPT disks: Date - May 21, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; When you should choose GPT disks over MBR.
Why is there no CLI Telnet in Windows Server 2008?: Date - Dec 11, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - David Davis; Like me, I am sure you are used to running telnet in Windows. it isn't there anymore in Windows Server 2008. Find out what to do in this article...