Yesterday (12th July 2010) at the Microsoft Partner Convention, Microsoft made publically available the beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 (in English, French, German, Japanese and in Spanish). Service Pack 1 Beta Information. Microsoft for sometime have stated that the only major new features in Service Pack 1 [...]
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Prevent “Fat Fingered” deletion of OU objects.
February 9, 2010
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Prevent “Fat Fingered” deletion of OU objects. Fat fingered administration is one of the main causes of OU deletion and subsequent “Authorative Restores” and the associated aggravation. In Windows Server 2008/2008R2 in Active Directory Users and Computers there is a check box titled “Protect Container from accidental deletion”, this check box sets two ACES to prevent, [...]
Read moreActive Directory Tombstone Lifetime – Set it to the correct value.
February 1, 2010
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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 [...]
Read moreWindows Server 2008/2008 R2 Incremental Backups not working as expected?
January 28, 2010
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Whilst reading the Microsoft document Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2 I read with interest this paragraph. NTFS File System Setting HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\isNtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate\ (REG_DWORD) 1 . This system-global switch reduces disk I/O load and latencies by disabling the updating of the date and time stamp for the last file or directory access. This key is [...]
Read moreRestoring legacy backups on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
January 28, 2010
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If you have attempted to restore legacy Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 backups on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you would have been unabled to until now. Microsoft has now released an update for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 to enable the restoration of backups made on Windows XP and Windows Server [...]
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