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23 June 2005
Understanding Active Directory in the Real World
For those of you who are available on Monday (27th June), this is a reminder that there is an all-day Technet event running at Cavendish Conference Centre in London about how you can deploy, manage, migrate-to, secure and extend the value of your directory Read More...
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07 February 2005
Scriptomatic (revisited)
The Scripting Guys released version 2 of their "Scriptomatic" tool a couple of weeks ago. Don't be put off by the somewhat frivolous name - it has some very true value. One such example I frequently use is for the WQL queries in WMI filters when building Read More...
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10 January 2005
Windows Task Manager - Alternate View
This is one of those small almost unheard of "things you can do in Windows" tips. The left image below is a "normal" Windows Task Manager screen shot. If you double-click anywhere in the graphical part of the tab, it changes appearance to the screen on Read More...
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08 January 2005
Blogcast on VSMT (Virtual Server Migration Toolkit) - Part 5
As promised, here's the last blogcast installment walking through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. This blogcast walks through deploying the disk image into the blank VM and seeing the Read More...
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06 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 4
I'm "virtually" (no pun intended) at the end in the series of blog entries walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. If you've missed out so far: Part one can be viewed here Read More...
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06 January 2005
Do I have local admin rights? Find out how in three mouse clicks (or two keys plus a mouse click)....
I use this quick-tip frequently to determine if I'm a local administrator. The trouble with some tips is that you just know them, they're so simple so you don't bother to tell people as you're under the assumption they "must have known that". This exact Read More...
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06 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 3
If you missed my two previous postings in this series of blogcasts walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, part one can be viewed here , and part two can be viewed here Read More...
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05 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 2
I hope you enjoyed the first two blogcast demonstrations of VSMT I blogged about yesterday. Today, I'm publishing part two which contains the next two blogcasts in the series. The third VSMT blogcast walks through validating the XML file describing the Read More...
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04 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 1
Blogcast, podcast, mini-webcast.... What's in a name - well quite a lot judging by some of the reactions I've had. Leaving the name issue to one side, I've recorded a series of eight clips which walk through the process of migrating an NT4 server into Read More...
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20 December 2004
Group Policy Webcast series
Matt Hester recently finished a great series of 14 webcasts about the ins and outs of Group Policy. If you missed these the first time round, or just want to know more about group policy, they're available for re-run on the Microsoft Technet site . Read More...
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13 December 2004
Blogcasts - surely a typo I hear you say.
No, it's not a typo! A "blogcast" is probably a new term to you as it's been made up by the IT Pro Evangelism team in the UK (not quite true, but it's nice to think we got there first). A blogcast in this context is a webcast delivered through blogs. Read More...
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08 December 2004
New windows not opening in IE? Use the Knowledge Base - it knows a lot of stuff!
Internet Explorer on my test Windows Server 2003 box has been playing up for a couple of days - every time I clicked a link which opened a new window, I got a blank window with nothing in the address bar. Annoying, but sometimes you don't have time to Read More...
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22 November 2004
NT4 Server and Windows Server 2003 Interoperability - Technet Evening Session
I'm co-presenting a free Technet evening event with Dave Sayers tomorrow night (Tue 23rd Nov) at the Microsoft office in Reading, UK discussing "NT4 and Windows Server 2003 interoperability". The session starts at 18:30 with registration opening at 18:00. Read More...
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