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Miscellaneous Tips

Title | Date | Rating
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Managing Hardware RAID Using Diskraid
Date - Mar 09, 2010
Rating - 5
Author - Mitch Tulloch
How to manage hardware RAID using the Diskraid command
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.
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.
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.
When to use GPT disks
Date - May 21, 2009
Rating - 4
Author - Mitch Tulloch
When you should choose GPT disks over MBR.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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