Okay, okay, I realise that I may be labouring the point somewhat. I’ve already written two blog entries (here and here) about UAC in Windows Server 2008 and this is the third and (probably) last. When you check DC replication using the repadmin /showreps command from a privileged command window you might see something like… Read More »
Yesterday I blogged about some of the confusion that Windows Server 2008 User Account Control can cause. Continuing on the same theme, here is another example – this time using slmgr.vbs to query the licence activation status of a Windows Server 2008 machine. This is what you see when you run the command line from… Read More »
I’ve been working with both Vista and Windows Server 2008 for quite a while now, but I still manage to fall foul of User Account Control, especially when working from the command prompt. As you will no doubt be aware, there are certain tasks that need elevated privileges and these require you to open the… Read More »
Most people are (quite rightly) terrified of seeing a whole bunch of errors in the DS event log following a schema update. This happened to me in a lab environment at a customer recently and I thought I would share the information here. I ran Windows Server 2008 adprep /forestprep on a Windows Server 2003… Read More »
It’s been a while, but Joe Richards has released a new version of his most excellent (and free!) command line tool, ADFIND. This latest version is V01.39.00 and incorporates a number of new features, switches and shortcuts. Check it out here.
The other day I had a need to configure scheduled backups of GPOs to file on a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller. Aha (I thought), I’ve done this before using the BackupAllGPOs.wsf script that is included along with a whole bunch of other handy scripts when you install the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). … Read More »
Or at least it nearly did. I was working a script and because of a small typo very nearly lost most of the data on my C: drive. It’s very easy to get wrong, so treat this as a cautionary tale. The example below shows the error I made and the potential impact. I’ve used… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »