• “Squeaky Lobster” - Monitoring Version Store Counters

    If you read nothing else in this blog post take a look at this http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/06/15/427966.aspx . Recently I was faced with a situation where a DC was receiving Event ID 623 events in the Directory Services eventlog. I had to...
  • Script to Recover a Hyper-V Guest

    Recently, a colleague of mine had a customer that had a Hyper-V server whose operating system had failed. They did not have any backups of the Operating system and had not taken any backups of the Hyper-V guests using Export\Import (I won't bang on about...
  • Online Kernel Memory Dump using LiveKd.exe

    How many times have you had to acquire a kernel memory dump, but you or your customer (quite rightly) refuses to have the target system attached to the internet (which usually needed to download the symbol files). Well, I have had the dubious pleasure...
  • FRS Problem when Virtualising a Domain Controller

    I recently had to assist someone who had virtualised a single Windows 2003 Domain Controller from physical hardware to a virtualised Virtual Guest file using a third party (Non Microsoft) utility (not that I am saying this issue would be any different...
  • Copy AD User Profile Path etc between Domain User Objects

    Here's a weird one, you are migrating users from multiple domains to a single domain and your migration process\procedure had determined that the primary domain of a user was not what it actually is, so the settings (Profile Path, Home Drive\Directory...