I’m finalizing a Windows 2003 R2 build that will become our gold image, which will be the source of all new server deployments within our organization. One challenge I had to overcome […]
The Back Room Tech – Page 11 – Serving up the info for back room techs everywhere
Last night I converted a physical Windows 2003 R2 server to a VMware virtual machine using VMware Converter Standalone version 4.0.1. The entire process was extremely simple, only four steps. […]
Here’s a quick and easy way of checking how long a Windows server or workstation has been up, via the command line. It pipes the results of Net Statistics Workstation […]
Fix: “The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter…”
by File in: Windows
I brought up a snapshot of a Windows Server 2003 R2 guest today and could not login to the domain. After further review I found the server had lost its static […]
To delegate the ability to enable and disable user accounts in Active Directory: Launch Active Directory Users and Computers with administrative credentials Right click on the OU where you want […]
To export a list of all computers and non domain controller servers in an Active Directory OU, use dsquery.exe. For example, to export all computers in mydomain.com’s servers OU to […]
Today when I established a telnet session to a host on port 80 from my Windows XP machine, I was unable to see any commands I typed echoed on the […]
The Best MSI Extractor
by File in: Utilities
I’ve written in the past about how to extract MSI files at the Windows command prompt, and how to extract the .msi files and edit them using UniExtract and Orca. […]
Fix: Userenv event 1521 and Userenv 1511 errors in Windows Server 2003 Application log
by File in: Windows
The following events were listed in the Windows 2003 event log when one of our second level help desk staff connected to the server console via RDP: Event 1521 Source […]
Fix: rdpclip.exe Won’t Run on Windows Server
by File in: Fixes
I had two identically configured Windows servers, one that would allow remote copy/paste from the server to the client via RDP, and one that wouldn’t. I finally took the time […]