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I’ve just finished writing an article up on admin tools that I use over on AdminPrep . If you have some tools that you would like to recommend please leave a comment here for others to see what helps get your through your day…tool wise that...
That has to be the longest title I’ve ever had in any blog. In my opinion this has the ability to the best post I’ve ever created too. The reason being that I’m always looking for ways to make my life easier…and then share them...
I’m always of fan of shortcuts and the Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Companion from Microsoft Press has a complete list of the command line shortcuts for starting Administrative Consoles for Server 2008. There are plenty of other goodies...
While I’ve always been a fan of Task Manager but lets face the facts…its has its limitations. Mark Russinovich has rolled up his wonderful Sysinternal Troubleshooting Utilities into a single download that can be found here . In there you will find...
I know i'm late on this but I've got to blog about it. Fellow Directory Services MVP Guy Teverovsky has created the coolest tool yet for Server 2008 Server Core. It is the Server Core CoreConfigurator . After you copy the four files to your Server...
Some of you may have noticed there were some missing tabs in Active Directory Users and Computers after you installed RSAT on Windows Vista. Specifically the Terminal Services Profile, Remote Control, Environment, and Sessions tabs are not there. The...
It looks like Microsoft finally released RSAT for Windows Vista. What a relief. We can finally effectively manage our environment with Vista. It can be downloaded in two versions, 32bit or 64bit . What Is Included in RSAT? This is the list of Windows...
I've always loved these spreadsheets as they allow a quick and easy way to search for Group Policies. With Server 2008 live and Vista SP1 out Microsoft has updated their reference sheet to add all the new Group Policy settings. There are now over...
This is been a hot topic here for a long time. Back in May I mentioned that there was going to be no AdminPak and sure enough that was confirmed. Microsoft's decision was to create a new tool called the Remote Server Administration Tools. Back in...
I just noticed that the Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard was released yesterday. Don't bother about the long name, everyone just calls it ClusPrep. This is a great little tool that will evaluate potential nodes that are to be clustered...
If you migrating to Windows Vista or playing with Longhorn you may be interested in this newly released utility. The Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility allows you to restore files that were backed up in Windows XP or Server 2003 to Windows Vista and...
I’ve been looking for a good tool that allows me to manage a large amount of servers via Remote Desktop for…well for as long as I can remember. I’ve become tired of the Remote Desktops MMC because of its lack of features. Yesterday I found a truly unbelievable...
On the subject of managing your servers, Microsoft recently released the Remote Desktop software to go along with the one that is built into Windows Vista. If you have Windows Vista you don’t need this but if you are using XP SP2 or Server 2003 you may...
I’m always looking for ways to make my job easier. Knowing shortcuts to the commonly used admin tools that you use is one of the best ways. Take a look below for your favorites and remember them… Not only will it save you a ton of time but...
Just finished publising my latest article at www.adminprep.com . This was such a fun one to write since it was something so many people have asked me about over the years. I can't believe it has taken me so long to get out to them. I would love to find...
One of the requirements of upgrading to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 for you clients is to ensure those clients reporting to MOM are running Windows Installer 3.1 or higher. After attempting to install the agent on my Integration servers I noticed...
Another day and another tool to save the day. Today I was staging the production DCs for different types of updates and I really didn't feel like copying 50+ files to these servers. So I remembered an old friend of mine named RoboCopy . RoboCopy has been...
Being able to log on to multiple machines at the same time has always irked my security conscious. While I can see the need for it and have done it plenty of times myself I was pleased to find that Microsoft has a tool that can limit concurrent sessions...