Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Clustering, Scripting, MOM, SQL.

Tips - 4

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

A Quick Tip To Disable "Initial Configuration Tasks List" This article explains how you can disable the Initial Configuration Task List at logon. What All Ports Are Required By Domain Controllers And Client Computers? This article explains the...(read more)

Tips - 3

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:03:00 GMT

Group Policy Offers New Functionality in Windows Server 2008 This article explains the improvements to the Group Policy in Windows Server 2008. Domain Controller Options Not Supported By RODC This article explains the DC Options which are not supported...(read more)

Tips - 2

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:44:00 GMT

A Quick Tip To Prevent Users From Accessing The Computer Tab This article explains a quick tip which you can use to prevent users from accessing the Computer Tab on My Computer property. A Quick Tip To Create A User Mode Process Dump File This article...(read more)

Tips - 1

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:18:00 GMT

Please check all the tips at WindowsNetworking.com: A Quick Tip To Strict FRS Replication To A Specific Port This article explains a registry heck which can be used to strict FRS Replication to a specific port. A Quick Tip To Strict AD Replication To...(read more)

Almost after 1 year, I'm back with a new beginning :)

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:43:00 GMT

Recently, wrote an article on Hyper-V Quick Migration. Increasing the Availability of Virtualised Applications and Services http://www.simple-talk.com/sysadmin/virtualization/increasing-the-availability-of-virtualised-applications-and-services/...(read more)

Tip - DNS Client Behavior in Windows Vista and Server 2008

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:06:17 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - A Quick Tip To Make Sure FRS Is Working In A Domain

Nirmal Sharma — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:35:13 GMT

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 Read more here....(read more)

Tip - Remote Control in Windows Server 2008

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:34:06 GMT

Microsoft developers have introduced a remote administration tools pack, which ships with Windows Server 2008 CD. The feature, called RSAT - Remote Server Administration Tools, Read more here... http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3779931...(read more)

To music lovers...

Nirmal Sharma — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:49:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - A Quick Tip To Update Group Policy Settings On Remote Computers

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:20:47 GMT

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 Read more here... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2000/AdminTips...(read more)

Tip - Background Zone Loading, New Functionality in Win Server 2008 DNS

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:57:56 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - How To Take System State Backup In Server Core

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:36:27 GMT

There is no GUI tool available in Windows Server 2008 Server Core edition to take the System State backup. You need to depend Read more here... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/Admin/HowToTakeSystemStateBackupInServerCore...(read more)

Inside Exchange Cluster Setup and Troubleshooting Tips (Part 6)

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:02:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - Block Write Access To Run and RunOnce Registry Entries - Rectified.

Nirmal Sharma — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:13:41 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - Block Write Access To Run and RunOnce Registry Entries.

Nirmal Sharma — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:15:28 GMT

Blocking write access to Run and RunOnce registry entries for malware or other unwanted programs running in the system. Read more here... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/UserTips/Boot/BlockWriteAccessToRunandRunOnceRegistryEntries...(read more)

WinInstall LE, MSI Creator and Configuration Builder

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:39:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - How does Windows Server 2008 resolve Domain Controller Load Balancing problems?

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - A Quick Tip to configure Group Policy settings in Workgroup Security Model.

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:14:20 GMT

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...(read more)

Tip - How To Delete System Blocked Files

Nirmal Sharma — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:49:59 GMT

How to delete Files/Folders which are being blocked by the processes running in the background. Read more here... http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/AdminTips/Utilities/HowToDeleteSystemBlockedFiles.html...(read more)

Inside Exchange Cluster Setup and Troubleshooting Tips (Part 5)

Nirmal Sharma — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:22:29 GMT

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...(read more)