Microsoft developers have changed the functionality of many of Windows' components. DNS is one of them. A DNS client component running on a Vista computer behaves differently than it did in previous versions of Windows.
This tip explains the behavior of the DNS client component in Windows Vista for DNS queries and registrations.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3781556
This article explains a small mechanism you can use to make sure FRS is working.
FRS (File Replication Service) is used to replicate Scripts and Group Policy in Active Directory. FRS is dependent on Active Directory Connection Objects
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/Admin/AQuickTipToMakeSureFRSIsWorkingInADomain.html
Microsoft developers have introduced a remote administration tools pack, which ships with Windows Server 2008 CD. The feature, called RSAT - Remote Server Administration Tools,
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3779931
Guys, I'm great fan of Mohd. Rafi. (a great playback singer in India - he is no more with us :(....). These days I have been very busy singing couple of his songs. You can find the songs sung by me at the following URL:
http://www.esnips.com/web/nratawasStuff
:) I really love his voice, his style of singing and versatility.
This article explains a single command you can use to update the Group Policy settings on remote computers. Please note this applies to Windows 2000 Computers only
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2000/AdminTips/ActiveDirectory/AQuickTipToUpdateGroupPolicyOnRemoteComputers.html
Microsoft has changed the way DNS loads zone data into memory. Sometimes the DNS server can take an hour or more to load the data with extremely large zone data stored in the Active Directory Services. The result is that the DNS server is unable to serve the client's requests in a timely fashion.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3778316
There is no GUI tool available in Windows Server 2008 Server Core edition to take the System State backup. You need to depend
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/Admin/HowToTakeSystemStateBackupInServerCore.html
Hopefully, this is the last part of the article series I have written for Exchange Server Setup.
In the 6th and final part of this article series we look into the actual creation of Exchange Cluster Resources. We also go through the different setup log files and summarize the type of information available from here.
Creating Exchange Resources Types and Registering with the Cluster Service
After setup processes all INS files, ScSetupExchangeVirtualServer is executed. This function is responsible to create all the Exchange Resources in the cluster. Let me tell you one thing, this function is completely dependent on the CLUSTER_SERVER.INS file. Only if setup executes CLUSTER_SERVER.INS successfully can Exchange 2007/2003 resources be created. The reason is simple.....
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http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=122
All the parts of this article series can be found at here:
Part 1
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=116&t=6
Part 2
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=117
Part 3
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=118
Part 4
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=119
Part 5
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=121
Part 6
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=122
Blocking write access to Run and RunOnce registry entries for malware or other unwanted programs running in the system.
Your system becomes unstable because of the malware programs running in the background. You identify these programs and kill them in the Task Manager but these programs will re-appear in the Task Manager after you reboot the system. This is because these programs will run again from the below mentioned registry keys:
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/UserTips/Boot/BlockWriteAccessToRunandRunOnceRegistryEntries.html
Blocking write access to Run and RunOnce registry entries for malware or other unwanted programs running in the system.
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/UserTips/Boot/BlockWriteAccessToRunandRunOnceRegistryEntries.html
This article explains the advantages of tool WinInstall LE (a tool from Veritas software, which ships with Windows Server CD) and how to use this tool to convert EXE applications to MSI packages.
About Active Directory and Group Policy
You have, no doubt, heard about Active Directory. Active Directory is Microsoft's answer to Novell Directory Service. Active Directory is a big repository of objects. It contains objects such as users, groups, shared printer information and network objects. Active Directory was first introduced in Windows 2000.
There is a tool or snap-in called Group Policy. Group Policy is meant for administrators who want to have a better control over systems running in network. Group Policy is used to control the behaviour of desktop computers and member servers from a central location. There are couple of settings you can deploy using Group Policy on remote computers. Group Policy comes with pre-defined administrative templates. Administrative Templates are the configuration unit as shown in Figure 1. You use them to control the behaviour of a specific setting, such as Start Menu and Taskbar, Internet Explorer Options settings, Registry Keys, Services and so on.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3774681
This article discusses a new Group Policy setting which solves the Load Balancing issues with the domain controllers.
The DC Locator Service has been re-designed in Windows Server 2008 to include a new mechanism. When a client computer finds a preferred domain controller, it sticks to this domain controller unless that domain controller stops responding or the client computer is restarted. This is generally called Domain Controller Stickiness.
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/ActiveDirectory/HowdoesWindowsServer2008resolvesDomainControllerLoadBalancingproblems.html
This article will show how you can quickly configure Group Policy in Workgroup Security Model. This article applies to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
The Group Policy can also be deployed in Workgroup security model but there is no central tool available to configure all computers in one go. For example, you have 20 computers in your network. You need to configure the same Group Policy settings on 20 computers.
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2003/AdminTips/Miscellaneous/AQuickTiptoconfigureGroupPolicysettingsinWorkgroupSecurityModel.html
Today we continue our walk through the internals of the Exchange Cluster setup installation. We look at the cluster specific modules. How these are installed, the important role they play in a cluster environment and more troubleshooting tips.
Exchange Cluster Installation Process
After setup detected that it is going to install the Exchange in a cluster environment, it executes theScSetupExchangeVirtualServer function as shown in figure B.15. The cluster setup process for Exchange starts from here. The procedure contains a set of functions that are used to make an Exchange Server cluster ready.
FIGURE B.15 - Setup Entering into ScSetupExchangeVirtualServer procedure.
It executes and sets the install type to cluster. Setup copies the binary files from x:\Setup\Roles and X:\Setup\Common directories as shown in the main figure B.
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http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=121
Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 in various editions. One of them is Server Core. There is no GUI included in the Server Core. You must perform all the commands by using the command-line tools supplied with the Server Core. Here are few important ones.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3772456
Allow previous versions of Windows to access Windows Server 2008 Server Core using Terminal Services.
Windows Server 2008 runs in higher security level. By default, Windows Server 2008 does not allow previous versions of Windows computers to access the Server Core via Terminal Services. You must turn off the higher security level to allow them to access via Terminal Services
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/TerminalServersAndThinClients/AQuickTipToEnableTerminalServicesAccessForPreviousVersionsofWindows.html
This article explains a registry entry which you can use to run your application instead of Windows default Shell (Explorer.exe).
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http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/RegistryTips/Customization/HowtorunyourownapplicationwhenWindowsStarts.html
DFS in Windows Server 2008 has been improved. The DFSR, a service running in Windows Server 2008, can now be used to replicate SYSVOL contents. Previously, we had to use FRS for SYSVOL. In Windows Server 2008, the DFS has the following new features added:
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3770736
Many Microsoft customers are still using WINS in their networks. WINS is often used as a secondary name resolution protocol for NetBIOS names. WINS uses NetBIOS Over TCP/IP (NBT) for name resolution. Organizations still use WINS because they like having the static names for their enterprise servers.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3769461
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