I recently found a need to have Operating System and Service Pack information displayed dynamically in Active Directory Users and Computers rather than have it hardcoded into the Description attribute of the computer object. I remembered that many moons ago, I had seen Dean Wells demonstrate this ability, so I dug out my notes and [...]
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Tag Archives: Administration
Active Directory Diagnostic Logging
November 3, 2011
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When troubleshooting Active Directory the first place that most people look is the Windows Server event logs, the event logs can provide a wealth of information about the state of an Active Directory, but by default the recorded information is limited to the logging of critical and error events. To enable detailed diagnostic logging there [...]
Read more Visio 2010 Add-in for Disk Space Monitoring
June 14, 2011
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Microsoft have provided a Visio 2010 Add-In to enable Disk Space Monitoring, it provides a graphical view of free space available on selected computers. To populate the Visio diagram it can either be populated from an Excel spreadsheet or System Center Operations Manager. Once all the desired computers have been contacted, the information is [...]
Read moreClean up after installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
April 12, 2011
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After installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, by default you have the ability to uninstall the Service Pack and rollback to the previous state. If you are confident that you do not need to rollback the service pack at a later date. The installation can be made final by [...]
Read moreMicrosoft 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 moreWindows Virtual PC–Refresh download available.
February 14, 2011
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Microsoft have today (14/02/11) released a refresh update for their Virtual PC offering. Windows Virtual PC is the latest Microsoft virtualization technology. You can use it to run more than one operating system at the same time on one computer, and to run many productivity applications on a virtual Windows environment, with a single click, [...]
Read moreMicrosoft Test Lab Guides
February 14, 2011
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Microsoft for a sometime now have been publishing via the Microsoft Downloads website documents called either: TLG:xyz or Test Lab Guide:xyz. These guides are intended to deliver a set of documents that enable an IT Pro to experience the functionality of a Microsoft technology or product in a standardised test lab environment. All Test Lab [...]
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Books that every IT Admin should own.
Active Directory
Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory
