Archive | February 1, 2010

Active Directory Tombstone Lifetime – Set it to the correct value.

If you have upgraded your Active Directory from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 SP1, 2008 or 2008R2 (or if you installed a pristine Windows 2003/2003 R2 forest), there is a high probability that you have overlooked updating the Active Directory Tombstone Lifetime from 60 days to the new default of 180 days. The tombstone [...]

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Microsoft Security Essentials.

Late in 2009 Microsoft released “Microsoft Security Essentials” – if you are looking for a reliable, advertisement free and gratis Anti-Virus solution then I would recommend downloading the product from http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/.   It is by no means perfect yet, but it is better than running no anti-virus at all. It does not run on Windows Server, but [...]

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