Windows Server 2008 (and Vista) offer improved options for event log management. For example, you now have the option to forward events to a central event collector server. You also now have powerful filtering capabilities. One of the features I like is the Wevtutil command-line tool that allows you to retrieve, query, archive, export and… Read More: Exporting Events with Wevtutil Using a Time-Based Query »
If you’ve played around with Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services, you will probably be familiar with the snapshot feature within NTDSUTIL. The feature allows you to take snapshot of the volumes that host the AD components and to then mount the snapshot. Once mounted, you can use DSAMAIN.EXE to expose a read-only copy… Read More: How to Schedule Active Directory Snapshots in Windows Server 2008 »
Since the 24th October I’d been getting the error “Invalid Update Control CTF File” when trying to update AVG 8.0 on my home PC. I think I remember having this before and it went away after a few days, so I had been ignoring it until today. Anyway, I found two control files for AVG… Read More: Invalid Update Control CTF File AVG 8.0 Error on Vista »