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Inventorying Windows Server Core in ConfigMgr
Server Core is an interesting “edition” of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 that offers some potentially nice benefits: http://technet.microsoft.com/en...
Tabbed Remote Desktop
I visit a lot of clients and work work with a lot of different admins and one the recurring themes for many of these admins is having multiple – three...
OSD and SAN Disks
Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operating System Deployment. They could successfully create and format...
Windows Activation: Troubleshooting and Monitoring the KMS
As I've described in the previous two installments, the KMS is a pretty simple and straight-forward service. When you think about, this makes sense...
Suppress Plug and Play UI
Microsoft just released a new hotfix that allows you to suppress the plug and play UI in Windows XP and Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938596...
Posted: Jan 08 2009, 03:59 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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DNS on Server Core
I recently implemented a new external DNS solution for a financial customer of mine. They had some issues lately and wanted to replace their old external...
Posted: Oct 06 2008, 06:09 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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Error Codes
Administrators new to System Center Configuration Manager (and SMS) are often befuddled by return/error codes from programs delivered using an advertisement...
Server Manager vs. Computer Manager
Server Manager is the much talked about new, all-in-one, handy-dandy MMC snap-in to manage Windows Server 2008 systems. It provides most of the same functionality...
Windows Kerberos Authentication
Finally, my first post. Here's a oldie but goodie (IMHO). I was looking to review Kerberos concepts and remembered reading a great whitepaper from...
Posted: Jun 26 2007, 05:26 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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