Moving DHCP from windows 2003 to windows 2008

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Category : featured, microsoft, technology

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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Bookmarks for July 15th through July 19th

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Category : Daily Links, Misc

These are my links for July 15th through July 19th:

  • Update User Attributes from CSV File (VBScript) – Update active directory user attributes from a CSV File. (See Notes section for additional information and instructions)
  • Bulk AD Users – WiseSoft Bulk AD Users is a tool that makes it easy to perform bulk updates to Active Directory User account attributes. Previously you might have wrote scripts to perform these types of updates or gone through a very tedious process of performing these updates one at a time via the ADU&C interface. Bulk AD Users makes this process much simpler and also provides an XML log file that allows you to undo any unwanted updates. The application has powerful query capabilities that allow you to target updates to only the required user accounts and number of methods are available for updating user account data depending on your specific requirements.
  • Get columns Totals for date column in a sharepoint list using XPath Query in sharepoint designer | DEV-Blog.com – If you want to use totals in sharepoint list view to get the maximum/minimum/sum… or any of the totals for any column then it is easy, you just need to edit the view of your list and add the total you want based on any column.
  • Infowise Ltd – SharePoint web parts and components – SharePoint web parts and components
  • Hide form fields in SharePoint | My SharePoint of View – Sometimes when building SharePoint solutions or creating custom lists you want to hide some columns from the new or edit form. But the default new and edit form are automatically generating the form fields with all the columns that are created for the list.
  • How to Pass Querystring data into an InfoPath Form – Microsoft InfoPath 2010 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – After showing you how to customize a SharePoint list with InfoPath 2010, and describing the differences between SharePoint list forms and form library forms together with Kate Everitt, I’m back with a quick tip for easily sending a value from the browser’s query string into an InfoPath form.

Bookmarks for April 23rd through May 6th

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These are my links for April 23rd through May 6th:

Bookmarks for March 6th through March 24th

Category : Daily Links, Misc

These are my links for March 6th through March 24th:

Bookmarks for February 18th through March 4th

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These are my links for February 18th through March 4th:

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace

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Category : microsoft

Microsoft Office Outlook

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We are testing Office 2010 at work. I should have it by the end of next week along with windows 7. I’m currently running Office XP with outlook 2003. I was using Xobni, but it seem to eat up RAM and caused outlook to have issues closing. The social features of xobni where nice. But the performance hit wasn’t worth it. I uninstalled it and install windows desktop search. Windows desktop search was just as good if not better than xobni, but I was still missing the social integration. Well it looks like once I get outlook 2010 installed, I’ll be able to test microsoft’s new Outlook social connector, very nice….

In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.

We are continuing to deliver on that vision today with two new announcements. First, we’re proud to announce the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook, which will enable our millions of Office 2010 Beta users to connect the OSC to a public network for the first time. Second, we’re excited to announce partnerships with Facebook — the most popular social Web site in the world, and MySpace — a leading social platform connecting people through expression, content, and culture.

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To recap, here is what you can do today to get started with the Outlook Social Connector.

  1. Download the Office 2010 Beta at www.Office.com/beta
  2. Download the latest beta version of the Outlook Social Connector from the Microsoft Download Center.
  3. Get the LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector at www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.
  4. Keep watching the Outlook team blog for availability of the Facebook and MySpace download for the Outlook Social Connector at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/.

 

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace
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Windows time service on domain controllers

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We moved a new server into the PDC emulator role of a 2003 AD forest. This new DC wasn’t keeping time correctly which was effecting the entire forest so I found a few links and commands that helped me get things syncing again.

Here are the two commands that helped me set the PDC emulator to sync with an external source:

 w32tm /config /computer:<<PDC-FQDN>> /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /update 
w32tm /config /computer:<<PDC-FQDN>> /syncfromflags:domhier /update

To synchronize the domain controller with an external time source

  1. Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.
  2. In the Command Prompt window, type the following line, where peers is a comma-separated list of IP addresses of the appropriate time sources, and press ENTER:
    w32tm /config /manualpeerlist: peers /syncfromflags:MANUAL
    The time sources you choose depend on your time zone. For example, if your domain controller is located in the Pacific Time zone, this line might read:
    w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:131.107.1.10 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
    In this example, the IP address of the timeserver is used instead of the fully qualified domain name for security purposes.
  3. Press ENTER. You should get a message that the command completed successfully.
  4. Type w32tm /config /update
  5. Press ENTER. You should get a message that the command completed successfully.
    W32time uses a variable poll interval based on the quality of timesync with the server. On DCs, this interval defaults to between 64 and 1024 seconds.
  6. To immediately synchronize with the external time server, type w32tm /resync and press ENTER. You should get a message that the command completed successfully.
  7. Type Exit and press ENTER.

I found this information from

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723673(WS.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784553(WS.10).aspx

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