Slipping in under the Office 2010 RTM radar, Microsoft Released To Manufacturing (RTM’d) yesterday (19/4/10) Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 and System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010. Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations with a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables […]
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Active 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 0 Comments
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 0 Comments
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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