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Mark Empson's Global notepad
Windows 8 and the dreaded couldn't create a new partition
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5 months ago
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ReaperFighter
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Hi all, Something must be wrong with me, as I am posting more than normal on my blog!. This time its about Windows 8. I have rebuilt my PC over the last few evenings and been running into the error: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate...
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Windows Server 2008 Core Quick Reference
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over 5 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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This month I have been setting up my first Windows 2008 core server to go into a production environment. It has been a very interesting experience as I was expecting a straight forward process but ran into a few challenges. What with some vendor specific...
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Key Firewall ports for Windows server 2008
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over 5 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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Some just might say that security has gone mad these days, gone are the times when we only used firewalls to protect our internal network infrastructure from external attack. Certainly I now see many of our customers deploying internal firewalls to protect...
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UserAccountControl flags
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over 2 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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I was messing today with a small script to read the UserAccountControl flags of an Active Directory domain's user account base, and was tryng to find the correct values that are present there. I ultimately stumbled upon a KB article http://support.microsoft...
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Event ID: 12294 Woes
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over 1 year ago
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ReaperFighter
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I came across this great error today at a customer site: Event Type: Error Event Source: SAM Event Category: None Event ID: 12294 Date: 3/3/2003 Time: 9:42:55 AM User: (USERNAME) Computer: (COMPUTERNAME) Description: The SAM database was unable to...
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Userenvlog for Windows Vista/2008/Win7
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over 3 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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If you like the userenvlog from Windows XP, you may want to know how to get more information from the GPSVR service in Windows 2008/Visa/Win 7. If so then try this: How to enable logging in the Gpsvc.log file To enable logging in the Gpsvc.log file...
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RODC connection object is goes AWOL
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5 months ago
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ReaperFighter
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If the RODC connection object goes Absent With Out Leave (AWOL) then there are some steps to recover it, taken from the Ask the Directory Services Team's Blog site ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/10/08/friday-mail-sack-cluedo-edition.aspx...
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Group Policy Client Side Extension List
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over 3 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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So I was on a customer site, troubleshooting a Group policy Client Side extension issue and could not quite figure out all of the Client side extensions that were in use just by GUID. I was reviewing the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft...
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WSUSScn2.CAB Manual download location
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over 2 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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When using MBSA in an offline mode, it is sometimes required to download the catalogue file manually (due to firewall restricitions on some PCs etc) The below link will enable you to download it. I hope you will find this useful as I can never remember...
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Where is the MCSE for Windows 2008?
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over 5 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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Well, this is an interesting subject, as many of you know there is not an MCSE for the Windows 2008 family and it has been replaced with a new exciting qualification. So, L et’s have a look at some of the new details, We have four new(ish) qualifications...
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Poster Central
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over 5 years ago
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Hi all, Ever wanted a change in decor in your house? rather than boring old patterned wallpaper, what about getting some great posters with core components of specific technologies to put in their place... amaze your friends, impress your spouse.....
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MBSA WSUSSCN2
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over 5 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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If you are trying to perform a manual offline update to the MBSA tool but can't find the latest version of the database on the internet (as I struggled too), just click on the following link and download it. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=74689
Mark Empson's Global notepad
Enable Remote desktop via the registry
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over 5 years ago
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ReaperFighter
1
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If you have ever run into an issue where you have set up a server but forgot to put the tick in the box to enable remote desktop, then read on! Many times I have done this and then had to go all the way over to the server (sometimes in different offices...
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Registry.pol fun
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over 4 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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Hi all, This month, I ran into an interesting challenge to do with group policies. Specifically, I was trying to figure out why a client was not getting a specific setting. While it is was the Group Policy Object (GPO) and it the version of the GPT...
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ADPREP Challenges
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over 4 years ago
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I had an interesting challenge last month and figured that this is a great one for my blog. Being based in England, I had never come across this issue before so it was very interesting. I arrived on a customer site to help perform a Windows Server...
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RDP to Windows 2008
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over 5 years ago
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Hi all, I have installed a Windows 2008 server into my Windows 2003 domain, I then enabled RDP on my Windows 2008 server verified that I could connect from my Vista client on the network. While working from home, I quickly found out that I could not...
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How to find out who has your FSMO Roles?
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over 6 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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There are four main ways to read the FSMO role holders in Active Directory, an easy way, the common way, the cool way and the hard way. Lets review them all: The easy way: NetDOM /query FSMO The Common way: How to Determine the RID, PDC, and...
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Repadmin - THE tool of Kings
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over 6 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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So, you are having trouble with Active Directory eh? wondering what great secrets Microsoft have for troubleshooting AD? When I first started to work for the big M, I was expecting to get a load of tools that would help me troubleshoot AD, tools that...
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Some Useful Links for you all!
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over 6 years ago
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ReaperFighter
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News Details Link GPMC Scripts The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) provides a comprehensive set of COM interfaces that you can use to script many of the operations supported by the console. Included in this download is...
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RSAT on Windows 8 Doesn't install
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12 days ago
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ReaperFighter
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I have been installing the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28972 and the installation didn't seem to do anything on my nice, Windows 8 OS. It is supposed to automatically install...
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Hidden Schedule tasks in Windows 8
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4 months ago
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ReaperFighter
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Hello again :) I was looking for those hidden group policy schedule tasks that are created in Windows 8/2012 recently. These tasks are the ones created to perform the routine Group Policy refresh updates and the administrator driven updates too (such...
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Firewall ports for GPO remote update and RSOP reports
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4 months ago
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Hello all again, Just to remind myself, in order to enable GPO remote updates and remote policy logging, the required inbound firewall rules that needed to be enabled on the client are: For remote policy updates Remote Scheduled Tasks Management...
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InfoPath and "Cannot create InfoPath.ExternalApplication object. Error code = 0x80080005"
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1 month ago
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Hi again, I was just installing a InfoPath related package for InfoPath 2013, on Windows 8 and I ran into the following error: Cannot create InfoPath.ExternalApplication object. Error code = 0x80080005 no matter what I did, I could not seem...
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Delays Delays Delays
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over 5 years ago
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Hi All, Sorry for the long gap in updating my blog, unfortunatly I have been really busy lately. However, my absence from blogging has finally come to an end. Mark
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Windows 2008 upgrade paths
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over 5 years ago
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With the Windows 2008 finally being released to manufacture this past month, we will now be expecting a whole bunch of questions surrounding the Windows 2008 migration process. This part of the newsletter is looking at what you need to know to answer...
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