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Hi a few weeks ago I blogged about recommended best practises of Virtualizing your Domain Controllers environment. I am currently working with a customer on quite a complicated scenario that touches on virtualization and through my research and
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Hello, I have had a few people expressing difficulty in finding the download site for Windows XP SP3. Here tis ! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx
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Well I am sat in the departure lounge of Aberdeen Scotland Airport after a really interesting and enjoyable Customer Engagement around all things Active Directory. Aberdeen has enjoyed some lovely Spring Weather,while I have been there and is very pretty
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I was reading about this recently some online Picture editing software by Picnik. This has the following cool pictures The great thing about this is it can all happen online with functionality to hook into flickr facebook and picassa One-click photo fixing
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I seem to be on a run of recommending books, oh well must be that time of year. Anyway one fact you my not know about me is that I used to be in the Royal Navy working in Radio Telecommunications. Therefore I have a background in using Cipher and One
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I go onto alot of customer sites and am constantly evaluating the performance and configuration and advising best practise on Domain Controllers. Often the Support team has configured the /3gb switch in their Boot.ini files.....many of them do not know
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The DLT object can cause NTDS.DIT Bloat in the Active Directory. This will of course mean you are replicating objects around in your Active Directory unnecessarily. So firstly what are DLT objects DLT Objects See below as taken from http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312403
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Here is an excellent blog from Charlie Kindel ....hot from CES in Las Vegas about the announcement we have all been waiting for. Plus most interestingly a picture of the Windows Home Server. I think it looks really cool and funky. I suggest you watch
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I have been using Outlook 2007 for quite some time now and have been using the RTM version for the last month or so. Anyway I have been noticing a slowing down recently in loading up Outlook and the new circle Hour Glass seemed to be sat "doing nothing".
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I have been spending some time up with our GTSC support department here in the U.K. and it has been fascinating. These Guys and Girls really rock and know their stuff ! While I was there one of the Engineers Kam Patel gave me some really great insight
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This is now available for download from this location. http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/downloads/servicepack.mspx This version of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - Beta 2 will work with Vista. However a little tweaking needs to be
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Hi, on a somewhat lighter note of late. I have got a new really cool toy to play with. This is the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 . It has a really smooth action and has a duality of functions and features. If you are presenting you
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I was recently working on a customer site and notice in a significant number of System Event logs displayed the following error message. There are multiple accounts with name MSSQLSvc/ABCServer.contoso.com:1433 of type DS_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_NAME. If you
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Repadmin is a command line tool that is of course extremely useful when it comes to troubleshooting replication problems. However as with all command lines the syntax has to be exactly right otherwise you will get a negative experience. The thing to remember
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Being relatively new to the Blogosphere, I am like a child in a sweet shop when I come across something "new" to me with regards to making my blog more accessible and functional to my ....hopefully one or two readers !. Well I recently visited Anthony
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