First off you can download SPA 2.0 here. I’m going to explain how to quickly use SPA, and then what type of data is returned in this post. What is SPA? So what is SPA and how can you use it? Well the official overview is: Microsoft ® Windows Server ™ 2003 Performance Advisor is the…
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Republish printers easily on a print server to Active Directory.
Printers can get pruned from the directory for many reasons. The way it is supposed to work is if the printer is stale then a DC will remove the print queue object from the directory after trying to contact it 3 times at 8 hour intervals (default). This also means that if a DC can’t…
Windows Server 2008: TechED 2007: IIS will be able to run on Server Core.
Watching the TechEd keynote and Bob Muglia just announced that IIS will be supported as one of the roles for Server Core. This is great news for you web admins who want to reduce your attack surface, uptime, and footprint on an Internet facing web server. If you couldn’t make it to TechEd this year…
Services and Session Zero in Vista and Windows Server 2008
If you’ve been running vista you might have come across this message: “A program can’t display a message on your desktop” with the options to show the message or remind you later. So what’s the deal with this? Gone over in detail in this doc, its because services that runs in session0 run separately from…
Windows Server 2008 Beta3: Can and RODC be a GC?
Answer: Yes. If you’re looking to deploy some RODCs during the B3 timeframe then it would be a good idea to read through this first: Step-by-Step Guide for Read-Only Domain Controller in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 One of the gotchas before an RODC will advertise as a GC in your domain is that domainprep…
People squatting on your TS sessions?
Something that administrators deal with quite a bit is trying to connect to a machine using remote desktop (mstsc) and getting our favorite message: Boy this messagewill get you angry, damn squatters. pre-Vista/LH you could always give the /console switch a go and see if the console session is available: mstsc /console /v:<server> Even…
Other useful commands for those running ServerCore.
I pointed out in my last post a reference to the step by step guide for server core but here’s a few other tips for those playing with the GUI-less OS. Remote management with MMCs: Enable remote management in the firewall so you can connect to the dang thing. Actually this goes for LH…
Deploying a Server Core server during Beta3?
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…
How to easily calculate your system availability (uptime).
We all have managers and ALL managers love that little word called metrics, and ALL managers like to know that their service has 99.99% uptime. So how can you easily get this information off a Windows server? Well there is a simple tool out there called uptime.exe. To get the uptime of a server use: Uptime.exe…
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…