I have previously written about this, but feel it’s worthy of another mention. Microsoft have hidden away on their WHDC (Windows Hardware Developer Central) website, an excellent document on Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2. It is worthy of a read as it details lots of changes in functionality that can affect performance. [...]
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Microsoft support policy for large (4K) sector drives in Windows
February 17, 2011
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Microsoft have just released this interesting KB article on large sector drive support in various versions of Windows. Over the next few years, the data storage industry will be transitioning the physical format of hard disk drives from 512-byte sectors to 4096-byte sectors (also known as 4K sectors). This transition is driven by several factors, [...]
Read moreI made it into Ned’s Mailbag…
May 4, 2010
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The Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support Directory Services Team blog is for me one of the most important sources of Directory Services (Microsoft flavoured) information on the internet; drawn from over 10 years of having to support Active Directory (AD-DS) in the real world and I had the pleasure honour of meeting the owner of the blog (Ned Pyle) [...]
Read moreReduce the load on a Windows Domain Controller.
February 26, 2010
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If you have a domain controller that you wish to reduce the number of client authentication requests that are processed then by adjusting the the servers weight or priority you can either: Reduce the number of client authentication requests received by adjusting the domain controller’s DNS weight record or to ensure that the domain controller does not [...]
Read moreDraw your Active Directory Automagically.
February 11, 2010
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When I am at a customers site I am often asked “How did you draw our Active Directory so quick?“. The answer is – I cheat and I use the The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool (ADTD), which enables Visio to automatically draw a diagram of your Active Directory environment, detailing it’s Domain topology, sites, OU structure and [...]
Read moreInteresting KB Articles: Unexpectedly slow startup in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
February 9, 2010
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Scenario: You have a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This computer is connected to a high resolution monitor. On this computer, the default dots per inch (DPI) display setting is set to a value other than 96 DPI. In this scenario, the computer has an unexpectedly slow startup time [...]
Read more- Office 2010 Installation Error: The language of this installation package is not supported by your system.
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- Active Directory .local domain design and Office 365.
- Active Directory Tombstone Lifetime – Set it to the correct value.
Book Recommendations:
Books that every IT Admin should own.
Active Directory
Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory
