A speed bump on the information super highway.
I’m getting ready this weekend to replace one of my windows 2003 domain controllers. This DC is a DNS,DHCP, and WINS server.
Moving DHCP from windows 2000 to 2003 was a royal pain if both machines where already DC’s
Microsoft has much improved this process for 2003 to 2008
Here’s the steps to follow from a MS KB Article
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First off I’m a windows user so don’t say get a Mac. I saw the commercial about IPhoto and how it could search through all your pictures and tag them for you with a persons name. We already have hundreds of photos of the kids and normally don’t go though each one and tag it after we upload it to the computer. I’ve read about Google’s Picasa having face tagging, but that’s only for the online web albums. I want to tag them locally on my PC. I’ve looked but having found anything for windows that would do it. I really like Windows Live Photo Gallery software and I’ve used Adobe elements before, but right now neither of these products will do auto face tags.
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There are quite a few ways to tell. Here are a few I found.
The correct version of the ADPrep.exe tool for Windows Server 2003 R2 is 5.2.3790.2075.
You can verify the operating system support level of the schema by looking at the value of the Schema Version registry subkey on a domain controller. You can find this subkey in the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters
You can also verify the operating system support level of the schema by using the Adsiedit.exe utility or the Ldp.exe utility to view the objectVersion attribute in the properties of the cn=schema,cn=configuration,dc=<domain> partition. The value of the Schema Version registry subkey and the objectVersion attribute are in decimal.
Schema Version ObjectVersion values and corresponding operating system support level
******OR*********
adfind -sc schver. It gets objectVersion code and translates into Win2003 version.
******OR*********
Win2003 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783495.aspx
To verify that the Active Directory Preparation tool has completed all operations successfully
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Wow, check out these great ADUC saved queries from Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com
Does anyone use the Saved Queries with in the ADUC?
I do, and I love them.
Here are some that might help you out.
Just Right Click on Saved Queries and Choose New and then Query.
Name the Query accordingly and then click on Define Query…
Then Find the Custom Search and click on the Advanced tab.
Paste each of these in the <add criteria from above to this list> area and then click OK.
Locked Out Users
(&(&(&(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(lockoutTime:1.2.840.113556.1.4.804:=4294967295)))))
Dial In Access
(&(&(&(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(msNPAllowDialin=TRUE)))))
Disabled User Accounts
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))
No Expiring Accounts
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536))
Active Accounts
(&(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)))
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I was pulling my hair out today, wondering why the bios screen was going by SO much faster since I upgraded to 3.5, even when I connected directly to the ESX box. Turns out that by default the bios screen is set for 0 milliseconds on a new machine. But you can chance this this is via the VM options in the VI client GUI. Remember the time is in milliseconds, plus there is a checkbox to force it to the bios setup on next boot!
Thanks for the heads up vinternals: VM boot screen timeout
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When Microsoft and Citrix come sniffing around your virtual infrastructure here’s some information you can give them.
So at some point your going to have to explain why VMware is better than Xen or Microsoft. You gonna need something clear, concise and to the point. You could do no wrong by have a quick look at this URL from VMware. Thank you to Jay Rogers of Novant Health for drawing this to my attention
http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality/2008/06/a-look-at-some.html
There’s a simple compare and contrast of the memory front prints of the various hypervisors… and a good architecture comparision.
“The architecture for Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V puts standard device drivers in their management partitions. Those vendors claim this structure simplifies their designs compared to the VMware architecture, which locates device drivers in the hypervisor. However, because Xen and Hyper-V virtual machine operations rely on the management partition as well as the hypervisor, any crash or exploit of the management partition affects both the physical machine and all its virtual machines.”
“The Xen and Microsoft architectures rely on routing all virtual machine I/O to generic drivers installed in the Linux or Windows OS in the hypervisor’s management partition. These generic drivers can be overtaxed easily by the activity of multiple virtual machines – exactly the situation a true bare-metal hypervisor, such as ESXi, can avoid.
Hyper-V and Xen both use generic drivers that are not optimized for multiple virtual machine workloads.”“Products like Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V lack an integrated cluster file system. As a result, storage provisioning is much more complex. For example, to enable independent migration and failover of virtual machines with Microsoft Hyper-V, one storage LUN must be dedicated to each virtual machine. That quickly becomes a storage administration nightmare when new VMs are provisioned. VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMFS enable the storage of multiple virtual machines on a single LUN while preserving the ability to independently migrate or failover any VM.”
Why VMware is better than Xen or Microsoft…
Mike Laverick
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:09:41 GMT
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Using w32tm:
To sync time:
Go to the PDC emulator role for the forest, open a cmd prompt and type
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:peers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update where peers are the IP address of time servers. If you have time servers for other network equipment use those.
Then type:
Net stop w32time & net start w32time
Then, on the other DCs open a cmd prompt and type:
w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /update
Net stop w32time & net start w32time
OR
VBScript:
This VBS script will allow you to set the time on a local machine to the official Windows 2003 Server domain time by promoting you for the PDC Emulator name.
The script can also be used to run in a scheduled task for troublesome machines.
VBS Script:
strPdcEmulator = InputBox ("Enter Your PDC Emulator Name")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objcmnd = "Cmd /C Net Time \\" & strPdcEmulator & " /Set /y"
WshShell.Run(objcmnd)
MsgBox "Done"
VBS Script To Set A Local Machines Time With the Windows 2003 Server PDC Emulator
dhite
Mon, 26 May 2008 12:42:14 GMT
