If so you’ll probably install and then be sitting at the command prompt and asking yourself: Now how do I join the domain? Along with many other questions, like how to set a static IP or deploy AD as a role on the server. Check out the Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server “Longhorn” Step-By-Step…
The case of Windows Defender not starting.
Had a client whose machine would not load Windows Defender, each time it was opened it would eventually die on initialization: Log Name: ApplicationSource: Application ErrorDate: 8/13/2007 4:03:10 PMEvent ID: 1000Task Category: (100)Level: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: server1 Description:Faulting application MSASCui.exe, version 1.1.1505.0, time stamp 0x45ad8d6e, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549d372, exception code…
Sync a partition from one DC to another DC when they don’t have a direct replication link. And other Repadmin fun…
REPADMIN /ADD I’ve shown you the beauty of REPADMIN /REPLSUM * /BYSRC /BYDEST /SORT:ERROR to easily find out the largest replication deltas in your forest. Lets take a look at a couple of other things you can do with repadmin, that I use quite a bit. When I was running the DCs, it was not…
What’s crashing on my vista machine?
Reliability Monitor will show you what is crashing on your machine, but how do we find the status of those crashes or capture the data ourselves to analyze? WERCON: Go to start:run and type WERCON, this will bring you into the world of crash analysis. All the crashes that happen on your system can be…
These are a few of my favorite things… (Part 3)
Just some more junk that I use quite a bit that I would share with others in case it can be useful in the wild… Part 1 Part 2 IFEO via GFLAGS I’ve mentioned setting IFEO before but here is the real short way to do it form the command prompt: Gflags /P /enable notepad.exe…
Powershell V2 CTP3 released
Been using this internally for the last couple of weeks and have been digging the changes. Just wanted to put this out here to spread the word. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/12/23/early-christmas-present-from-powershell-team-community-technology-preview-3-ctp3-of-windows-powershell-v2.aspx Happy Holidays. Technorati Tags: powershell
Windows Live Search for Mobile launched!
So Windows Live search for Mobile launched and Gizmodo did a comparison between Google maps for mobile and Live search for mobile and said that the Live search wins hands down! Take the jump to read the comparison, but after reading it I have to say I was quite impressed. -B
IE7 released! W00t!
Nuff Said http://www.microsoft.com/ie IE blog for more details: IEBlog
Some docs to help get you ready for Windows 2008.
Yes you are going to want Windows 2008 in your shop. We’ve been running 2k8 for over two year sin production and I’m very proud of the product we’re shipping shortly. Some of you will want to start thinking about what’s new in the OS, what has changed, performance, and deployment. Here are some docs/links…
Booting a DC into DSRM without touching it locally.
Short answer: /safeboot:DSRepair Long answer: So you will run into it often when being an AD admin that you need to boot a DC into DSRM (Directory Service Restore Mode), so what is the easiest way of doing this without having someone stand at the console and hit F8 on reboot and select DSRM from…