Posts Tagged ‘servers’

Upgrading AD Domains to Windows Server 2008 R2 AD DS Domains

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We still have win 2000 DCs and some 2003. One of my projects for 2010 will be to remove all 2000 DCs and get ready for 2008 DC deployment late 2010 or early 2011. This guide will be a great read for that project.
Upgrading your network operating system requires minimal network configuration and [...]

links for 2009-02-09

Fixing those pesky DCOM event log error 10016 in a SharePoint farm environment « Thoughts on computing, SharePoint and all the rest
ut it for exchange servers
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Automating the install of the Application Templates for SharePoint
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nearby tweets – instantly find twitterers nearby (or anywhere for that matter)
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links for 2008-12-23

Lucia’s Linky Love: A DoFollow Plugin to Foil Human Comment Spammers! : Big Bucks Blogger
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IntelliGantt
(tags: sharepoint projectmanagement)

Storage Monkeys – Home
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Repairing A Failed Cluster

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Here’s a nice simple post about how to recover from a failed windows cluster I’ve been running windows clusters at work on windows 2000/3 for both Exchange and SQL. They are nice, but a lot of the time they seem to add un-needed complexity.
It is possible to experience complete cluster failure, meaning both [...]

Active Directory Users and Computers Saved Queries

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 [...]

VI 2.5 Client Plugin – SVMotion

I just got all six of my ESX servers up to 3.5 and VCenter updated to 2.5. Now I’m looking for good plugin’s and this one seems to fit the bill.
SVMotion is a VI 2.5 client plugin (the FIRST released, third-party plugin in fact) that extends the client’s functionality by providing an integrated, graphical tool [...]

Open Source Drive Imaging

Wow, I just took a quick look at the list of features and I’m stunned. depending on how difficult it is to set this up. I maybe getting this going at work this week. We use altiris for desktop management. But we don’t use it for the servers, this could be a great way to [...]

Delegating Monitoring-Stopping-Starting services on Servers

Thank you so much Jorge and the activedir.org mailing list. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get a junior admin access to restart the print spooler on a windows 2003 SP1 box for over a month.
Delegating permissions to manage services on servers is not the easiest thing to do. You can do it [...]

Free Tools That Should Be In Every VMware Administrator’s Toolkit

I’ve only used items 1 and 2, looks like I have some tools to download. First I have to finish upgrading the other 3 esx servers to 3.5
3rd party tools are a great way to make up for missing functionality in the vendor supplied management software. Administrators, developers and vendors are usually quick to [...]

Two ways to set the time to the PDC emulator

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 [...]

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