I have run into a couple of scenarios where this setting has caused issues and hence decided to blog about it. Windows 2008 X64 based domain controllers didn’t replicate with each other. However they were pulling updates inbound from other DCs (that happened...

Just thought I'd post a quick observation I made on my laptop. Some time back I ran into an interesting issue on my laptop where I could create XPS documents using the "XPS Document Writer" printer or even using applications like Office 2007...

Just a quick post. Was onsite recently and had a DC that was not advertising is a time server. DCDiag confirmed it. Checked announceflags and it was set to 10 in hex (0x00000010) instead of 10 in decimal (0x0000000A). Changed registry value and use “w32tm...

repadmin’s w2k3_bridges_required setting is often a misunderstood setting. Even I was confused to its usage. So when elite PFE engineer Glenn explained in an internal DL, I felt it would be good to share with others.   The +W2K3_BRIDGES_REQUIRED...

As a premier field engineer I have a responsibility to do several on call shifts a year. The week just gone was one such on call shift learned the importance of updating drivers  during it. Allow me to elaborate. I got a call around 2AM Wednesday...