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• WMF patch

  Just saw Tim's post on the Jan 10th patch . My current client (like a lot of companies I am sure) had a conference call with our TAM today and found out... Posted Jan 03 2006, 05:32 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory

• No support for clusters with the new R2 DFS replication

  I was really hoping that the new FRS replacement in R2 would work to keep clusters in sync with each other. Apparently not. It does look like a huge improvement... Posted Dec 06 2005, 05:18 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory

• More DHCP corruption issues

  We've now had 6 issues with DHCP corruption in the past month or so. It has been on a different server each time and some of them are on SP1 and some of... Posted Oct 25 2005, 03:10 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory

• Fixing MMC errors

  I just threw together an article on how to fix an annoying MMC error that I've run into a bunch of times. I ran into it again this morning so I figured... Posted Oct 19 2005, 08:48 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Misc, Active Directory

• Auditing systems that are missing a SMS client (or have a broken client)

  I've been doing some thinking on how best to audit our systems to make sure that SMS is installed and working properly on all of our systems. Right now... Posted Oct 05 2005, 05:07 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS, Active Directory

• Utility to build Groups and Collections for SMS

  I posted a while back on this but I have a production version done now. This utility is really handy for creating groups that you can tie to SMS Collections... Posted Oct 05 2005, 03:57 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS, Active Directory

• XP SP3 preview (all post-SP2 hotfixes)

  I ran into yet another bug that requires a hotfix that you have to call Microsoft Product Support in order to get the hotfix itself. Tired of waiting around... Posted Sep 28 2005, 10:09 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Misc, Active Directory

• RegPerm must be buggy

  Well, we might be closer to figuring out what is screwing up the registry permissions in a lot of our packages. From what we have seen so far, RegPerm... Posted Sep 22 2005, 12:32 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS, Active Directory

• Disaster Recovery scripts saved our butts today

  Well, the DHCP backup script that I put in place at my current client ws a life-saver this morning. All of the scripts that I threw together are extremely... Posted Sep 21 2005, 01:05 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory, Scripting - Bat/Shell Scripts

• Integrating hotfixes into your RIS images

  Anyone ever had much success getting their patches integrated into their RIS images? We've always just used SMS to push out the patches after the RIS but... Posted Sep 21 2005, 12:59 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory

• Fun with HTAs

  I do a ton of vbs/shell scripting and dabble in HTML every once in a while when I need to but I've never gotten around to writing an HTA until recently... Posted Sep 14 2005, 09:58 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS, Active Directory

• Getting NETSH to manage DHCP from XP

  I've always hated the fact that you can't do NETSH command from XP to manage DHCP. I've always had to RDP or PSEXEC into a server in order to run NETSH... Posted Aug 31 2005, 03:02 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory, Scripting - Bat/Shell Scripts

• Backup up your AD Infrastructure - Part 3 - WINS

  Here's a script you can use to backup your WINS environment. Posted Aug 09 2005, 02:27 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory, Scripting - Bat/Shell Scripts

• Backup up your AD Infrastructure - Part 2 - DHCP

  Here's the next article for backing up your infrastructure services - DHCP . Posted Aug 09 2005, 12:23 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory, Scripting - Bat/Shell Scripts

• Backup up your AD Infrastructure - Part 1 - DNS

  I threw together a few scripts for my current client to do some basic backups/exports for infrastructure services like DNS, DHCP, WINS, Print Services... Posted Aug 09 2005, 12:14 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory, Scripting - Bat/Shell Scripts