Windows 2008 R2
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Windows
DFS Installation on Windows Server 2008 R2
Distributed file system allows for highly available access to files and folders through a type of replication that is Wide Area Network friendly. This feature is ideal for administrators that want to have highly available shared folders accessible through a…
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Windows
You Have Been Logged On with a Temporary Profile
We have covered some of the misery that happens with roaming profiles in a previous post. Roaming profiles seem to at best only work “some” of the time and can cause a lot of issues with other programs as well…
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ActiveDirectory
Installing a Read Only Domain Controller in a Windows 2008 R2 environment
Read Only domain controllers provide a really nice option for administrators who may want to place a domain controller in a remote site, particularly one that may not have a secure location for the server as such. The RODC may…
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Group Policy
Preventing a user from receiving group policy settings
Let’s say you have a group policy object that you are applying to a group of users. Maybe you have one user that is a member of this group that you would like to filter from receiving those group policy…
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ActiveDirectory
Using DSQUERY to find users and groups
In huge AD infrastructures with several OUs and thousands of users and/or computers, it becomes difficult many times to be able to locate users/computers and which OU structure they reside in. A very handy command line tool for AD administrators…
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Running multiple SSL IIS sites IIS7 and 7.5
Starting with IIS 7, Microsoft made major changes to IIS. The look and feel of the entire interface is way different than what administrators were used to with IIS6. All in all most of the changes have been a good…
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Windows 2008 R2 access denied adding TCP/IP printer
I ran into a pesky add printer access denied error message recently with a server that had been upgraded from Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 R2. In attempting to add a printer to the printer management console via the TCP/IP…