1. How to move the WINS database in Windows Server 2008
(Blogs/paulw)

...eal with it, but it is still there and if you’re refreshing your infrastructure to Windows Server 2008 it makes sense to move WINS to as few central Windows Server 2008 machines as you can manag...

2. Initialising a new disk with DISKPART
(Blogs/paulw)

If you’ve been using Windows Server 2008 Server Core you’ll notice that some of the mundane, simple tasks that you take for granted are no longer quite so simple. One such example is the

3. Remotely managing the disk management snap-in in Windows Server 2008
(Blogs/paulw)

...have noticed, particularly if you’re working with Server Core, that even when your Windows Server 2008 machines are members of a domain that you get an RPC server unavailable type message when a...

4. So how do I know what drive letters apply to what disks in Server Core?
(Blogs/paulw)

...on that isn’t immediately available to someone faced with a command Window, i.e. a Windows Server 2008 Server Core user. When faced with that lovely C:\Documents\paulw-a> prompt, how doe...

5. Troubleshooting Microsoft Application Virtualization/ SoftGrid error 0060922C-800736B1
(Blogs/paulw)

...le (default location of C:\Program Files\Softricity\SoftGrid for Windows Desktops\SFTLOG.TXT): [05/01/2008 13:36:09.396 VSCM INF] Starting automatic service 'MDM'. [05/01/2008 13:36:26.488 SWAP IN...

6. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Last Interactive Logon Information Feature
(Blogs/paulw)

If you’ve been reading through the Windows Server 2008 documentation or attending events discussing Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) you might have noticed that one o

7. Prompting for the computer name in an unattended installation of Windows Server 2008
(Blogs/paulw)

I mentioned in a previous post that I’d been working with some customers on Windows Server 2008 automated installations of the traditional kind, i.e. using an answer file as opposed to the newer

8. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
(Blogs/paulw)

...SP1 (yeah, I know this isn’t really good practice, but this is a lab) and a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 running ILM and all its pre-requisite bits. Anyway, I created some sample users in the AD ...

9. Disabling custom errors in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0
(Blogs/paulw)

You might have noticed from my previous post that, because of the ILM “2” beta, I’m having to get my hands a little dirty with SharePoint Services –specifically Windows SharePo

10. Disabling logging in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0
(Blogs/paulw)

...LM “2” is SharePoint Services. SharePoint Services 3.0 is no longer part of Windows Server 2008 (it was during beta), but is available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. ...