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Malicious Software Removal Tool

As much as a bookmark blog as anything else so I know where to find it. You may have seen the malicious software removal tool come down through WindowsUpdate/MicrosoftUpdate. What I didn't know was that a version with the latest updates is released on Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:50 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments

Understanding Active Directory in the Real World

For those of you who are available on Monday (27th June), this is a reminder that there is an all-day Technet event running at Cavendish Conference Centre in London about how you can deploy, manage, migrate-to, secure and extend the value of your directory Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:23 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Release Candidate is now available

Someone made a more appropriate choice of name (thankfully!) given some of the alternatives which have been on the table over the past few months. The next version of SUS (Software Update Services) will be officially called Windows Server Update Services Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:32 AM by jhoward | (Comments Off)

Account Lockout Tools for Active Directory

I should have posted this previously, so apologies to those who attended my recent session on AD Troubleshooting, Diagnostics and Recovery. Relating to the demonstration for registering and using the AcctInfo.dll to add a new tab to the Active Directory Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:21 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments

Post domain migration - removing sidHistory

After a successful domain migration, you may be in a situation where it is necessary to remove the sidHistory attributes from objects in your new domain. There are many ways to do this, and many migration tools provide that capability straight out of Read More...
Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 9:50 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments

Active Directory diagnostic event logging in Windows Server

I mentioned at last nights "Active Directory Diagnosis Troubleshooting and Recovery" Technet session how to turn NTDS diagnostic logging on which causes the KCC to write events to the event log. All the information plus more besides is published in Knowledgebase Read More...
Posted Friday, March 11, 2005 8:40 PM by jhoward | (Comments Off)

Active Directory Database monitoring using ESENTPRF.DLL

One of the demonstrations at last nights "Active Directory Diagnosis, Troubleshooting and Recovery" Technet session included the steps to install esentprf.dll to allow monitoring of performance counters for the extensible storage engine (ESE) database Read More...
Posted Friday, March 11, 2005 8:41 PM by jhoward | (Comments Off)

Extending the Active Directory schema

There are occasions when you need to extend the Active Directory schema for applications. Besides the best practice of test, test and test again, and the alternative of using ADAM ( Active Directory in Application Mode ) to avoid changes to your corporate Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:59 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments

Common mistakes when upgrading domains from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003

In my line of work, I talk to lots of people about the "hows" of upgrading to the latest and greatest technology. Consequently, I've referred many people to the link below which is a great source of tips and links to other information worth considering Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:34 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments

Scriptomatic (revisited)

The Scripting Guys released version 2 of their "Scriptomatic" tool a couple of weeks ago. Don't be put off by the somewhat frivolous name - it has some very true value. One such example I frequently use is for the WQL queries in WMI filters when building Read More...
Posted Monday, February 07, 2005 8:42 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments

PKI and Certificate Management Information in Windows Server 2003

While on the subject of Certificates/Encryption/IPSec/PKI in general yesterday, I was looking around for some good information on how PKI works to post up. One white paper which stuck-out from the pile was published in December last year (so it's reasonably Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:16 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments

Group Policy - Tips Tricks and Best Practices

Following my session in Birmingham on 13th January, here's a list of the references I referred to. Apologies to all for the delay in posting this. Firstly, Jeremy Moskowitz's excellent book "Group Policy, Profiles, and Intellimirror for Windows 2003, Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:08 PM by jhoward | 4 Comments

Windows Task Manager - Alternate View

This is one of those small almost unheard of "things you can do in Windows" tips. The left image below is a "normal" Windows Task Manager screen shot. If you double-click anywhere in the graphical part of the tab, it changes appearance to the screen on Read More...
Posted Monday, January 10, 2005 8:43 AM by jhoward | 6 Comments

ActiveSync 3.8 Download - new release now available

ActiveSync 3.8 is now available for download Of course, the official download page doesn't say anything about being supported under Windows Server 2003 (my main laptop OS), but it does work without any of the workarounds such as those I blogged about Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:06 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments

Do I have local admin rights? Find out how in three mouse clicks (or two keys plus a mouse click)....

I use this quick-tip frequently to determine if I'm a local administrator. The trouble with some tips is that you just know them, they're so simple so you don't bother to tell people as you're under the assumption they "must have known that". This exact Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:48 PM by jhoward | 10 Comments
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