Editing Group Policies without ADUC or GPMC
Under Windows Server 2003 (and 2000), Active Directory Users and Computers was always available by just launching dsa.msc. From there you could use the legacy Group Policy management interface if you...
View ArticleWindows Firewall Rules for Data Protection Manager
I've had the pleasure of trying to reverse engineer the firewall requirements DPM has since they've declined to document any of this in a useful fashion. My experience so far is that this product does...
View ArticleWindows 2008 Schema Update - INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS
If you're trying to import an LDIF file with some schema changes on a Windows Server 2008 (or Vista) machine and it bails with an access denied error and an INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS messag, first make sure...
View ArticleDPM June Rollup
FYI if you use Data Protection Manager (DPM), the predictably regular rollup for June is up, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970867. This gets you to 2.0.8844. The bits are available without a call to...
View ArticleBaseline Registry Settings for new Domain Controllers
I have a list of baseline registry settings which I put on any new domain controller. I thought I'd share the VB Script below which sets all these as well as enables some performance counters. Many of...
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SimplePatch – My Patching Tool
I've been working on this VBScript on and off for a few years now. The purpose of the script is very simple. It installs security patches and other hotfixes on a server. Over the years the tool has...
View ArticleMissing Windows Time Service
I ran into a domain controller at a customer today which was completely missing the Windows Time (w32time) service. You can run w32tm /register to recreate the service with default parameters.
View ArticleUpdate-StorageGroupCopy fails with ESE Error
If you get the following error when you try to seed a CCR/SCR target node, you probably have a Windows Firewall problem.WARNING: Replication for storage group 'MyCluster\SG01' is still suspended. If...
View ArticleRemotely Configuring DRAC Cards
The two scripts below are a quick solution to pushing out an identical (except for IP and hostname) configuration to a large number of Dell DRAC boards. They’re not the most efficient and they were...
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Using Device Manager Remotely
If you’ve got servers running the Server Core version of Windows Server, you’ll probably find yourself needing to look at what devices and drivers are installed at some point. You can do this with...
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