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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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