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27 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Walkthrough
With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to know more about Host Clustering - a new capability supported with this release - what better way to find out than with a live on-demand demonstration, Read More...
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03 November 2005
Online Labs
Just got news in my inbox that all the US Virtual Labs for both Technet and MSDN are running on Virtual Server 2005 R2 which I thought was kind of cool. If you haven't had a chance to play with the online labs - you should. There's lots of labs which Read More...
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15 August 2005
Lateral thinking - ADSI LDAP Provider to add users to groups
I've been meaning to blog this for a couple of weeks now. I was approached by Gagik with a query about ADSI scripting. Fortunately, I've certainly done a fair bit with ADSI given my background. The problem Gagik was having was adding a user to a group. Read More...
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20 July 2005
Popup follow-on from yesterday
Well, there is another difference between the msgbox function and popup method as was pointed out to me by several people. Msgbox only displays the first 1024 characters of a dialog whereas popup displays a lot more (I haven't looked to see what the actual Read More...
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19 July 2005
How to automatically dismiss scripted dialogs boxes - alternative to msgbox function
I guess I've been doing a fair bit of scripting recently - admittedly nowhere near as much as I did back in my dev days, but there's always something you learn new. I don't even have a specific use for this, neither was I able to imagine a practical situation Read More...
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05 July 2005
Generic scripted weekly backup solution - your feedback results
Following last weeks post regarding the script I used to back up my home Exchange 2003 SP1 Server running under Virtual Server 2005 on a weekly full backup with daily differential backup, I've received upwards of 30 emails, all positive, thankfully!!! Read More...
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29 June 2005
Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)
Update: 4th Nov - See updated and improved script here As part of my backup for Exchange I was playing with at the weekend, I ended up writing a pretty simple script to run as a scheduled task. Although my Exchange environment is simple as well, the requirements Read More...
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21 June 2005
Don't be flamed - use the Image Resizer Powertoy
Continuing the theme of digital imagery and photography , I happened to notice an email go through on an internal discussion group today which had something like 4MB of attachments in the form of photos. As you can probably imaging, the sender was somewhat Read More...
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21 June 2005
File Server Migration Toolkit
Virtualisation for migration and consolidation isn't always the best answer. I'm not saying it isn't appropriate always, but there are alternatives. One great example which I was asked by a customer last week about was for migrating and consolidating Read More...
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01 June 2005
Windows Management through Remote Desktops Snap-in. Save space on your TaskBar
I was speaking to a customer this morning about Windows management generally and this happened to come up in conversation. There are many ways to manage servers remotely in Windows, but the customer was asking if there was a way to avoid his nightmare Read More...
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30 May 2005
ISA Server cannot load the property page 0xc0040357 on export or backup
How to fix the following error on ISA 2004 backup or export: ISA Server cannot load the property page. Error: 0xc00403557 The Server referenced by Array [ArrayName] does not exist A bit off topic for my usual blogging activities, but I had to share the Read More...
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31 March 2005
Windows Server TechNet major update

So many announcements in one day. To coincide with the launch of Windows Server 2003 SP1, the Windows Server 2003 TechCenter (TechCentre when spelt correctly) has been significantly revamped to include all the latest information. If you haven't seen this site before, I urge you to take a look. Essentially this is a core library of technical documentation for IT Pros.

As of today, three language versions are available:

- English: www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
- German: www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/de/default.mspx
- Japanese: www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/ja/default.mspx

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14 March 2005
limitlogon - new download to stop concurrent active directory logons.
My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets this morning. I was discussing this very problem with some colleagues only a couple of weeks ago and pretty much concluded that this is a very difficult problem to solve easily . Low and behold though, into my Read More...
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11 February 2005
Blogcast: Access Based Directory Enumeration (A Windows Server 2003 SP1 New Feature)
Find out about one of those really cool new features of Windows Server 2003 SP1, Access Based Directory Enumeration in this latest blogcast recording. In a nutshell, ABDE causes the server to examine access rights to sub-directories on a share, only showing Read More...
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03 February 2005
How-to boost Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Guest Performance
One very easy win to gain fairly significant extra performance from your Virtual Server 2005 guest Virtual Machines is to use virtual SCSI disks instead of virtual IDE disks. Of course, a physical fast I/O subsystem on the host is going to make a far Read More...
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