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RDP Exploit is Coming - Patch All Windows Now

I'm posting this info to do "my part" to ensure the word gets out on this Windows OS Internet-exploitable vulnerability. I can count on one hand the times I've had to care this much about a Windows patch in the last 15 years. Please read and react. This has the

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Turn a laptop into a three-monitor system

Thanks to Ryan for this tip. The Matrox DualHead2Go can be had for around $200 and turns your VGA or DisplayPort on your laptop into 2 additional screens vs. the standard 2nd screen add on. After nearly a week on Windows 7 x64 with two 20” monitors it’

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DCPROMO demote error on Domain Controller

On trying to remove a old server from the directory (2003 server in a 2003 forest) I received this error Failed to configure the service NETLOGON as requested “the wait operation timed out.” The root problem was that this domain controller had a DNS entry to another domain controller that

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DPM with Firestreamer Virtual Tape Library for Tape-less Offsite/remote long term backups

So far DPM 2007 with SP1 works well with Firestreamer Media Changer 3.95.8. It acts like a fake/virtual tape library with 5 drives and 200 tape slots. Those “tapes” can be anything that accepts native windows storage… USB, local drives, CIFS network locations, etc.

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Ping Windows 2008 with Firewall On

You should be trying hard to keep the firewall on when deploying Windows Server 2008. If you need to ping the server and haven’t enabled File and Printer Sharing, then open Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and under Inbound rules, enable “File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)

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Getting closer to the Active Directory Recycle Bin for free

I just posted that in R2 Microsoft plans to provide a true Recycle Bin for AD objects that were deleted, but until then the best we've got is Windows Server 2008 Active Directory. After hours of researching “how do AD snapshots in 2008 help me recover a deleted object(s)

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Using Windows Server 2008 as a client desktop

There are many other posts about the pros/cons of Windows Server 2008 as a client machine/desktop/laptop/workstation. Mostly false claims of faster-then-Vista performance, etc. I'm using it on a laptop in x64 strictly for training purposes (not as my main OS) and had to work out these

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TechEd 2008 ITPro: BOF911 The Physical Datacenter in a Virtual World

I'm hosting my 2nd year of a TechEd ITPro Birds-of-a-Feather session. Didn't attend this BoF last year? Read my post session summary. It's on Wednesday, June 11th at 4:30pm to 5:45pm in S330 E (vCalendar Apt.) The datacenter is rapidly changing as we shift to

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Utilizing the Built-in Windows Backup (ntbackup.exe) For Windows

This post is a record of what I've learned and done to make the built-in backup utility in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 as useful as possible. Often my clients, as well as most home users have operating systems like Windows 2000/2003 Server (or Windows XP for