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

...INS server and choose properties. Select the advanced tab and enter a new path for the WINS database (the default is %windir%\system32\wins). Click OK to close the properties and select no when aske...

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

...e initialise a new disk so that we can create a partition (or volume) on it? We mark it as read/write (it defaults to read only) using the ATTRIBUTES context. Like so: DISKPART> attributes disk...

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

... connect to the virtual disk service is simply a matter of the firewall rules. The firewall is enabled by default on Windows Server 2008 systems. The interesting aspect of this is that simply en...

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

...Right! Well, suffice to say I had a problem or two. One of which looked like this in the log file (default location of C:\Program Files\Softricity\SoftGrid for Windows Desktops\SFTLOG.TXT): ...

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

...ePoint other than what it is and what it looks like then you’ll probably simply install it using the defaults. This is fine for ILM “2” however, a word of warning. Out of the box a...

6. Automating Windows Server 2008 installations
(Blogs/paulw)

...quo;] Value: Windows Longhorn SERVERENTERPRISE Auto logon / Administrator Password By default, Windows Server 2008 forces you to change (reset) the password of the built-in admini...

7. Finding the Virtual Server Hosts in your domain
(Blogs/paulw)

...the FQDN. I’ve written a VB Script that will output all Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 hosts in the default domain. Here’s the script. Option explicit ' constants Private Const APPNAM...

8. Querying for an InvocationID in retiredReplDSASignatures yields more than one result
(Blogs/paulw)

...MIN /SHOWSIG on both LDS instances: d:\ntds\lds-data\msres\ifm-install>repadmin /showsig rodc:50389 Default-First-Site-Name\RODC$msres Current DSA invocationID: 27e573cc-02d5-452c-bed4-feaeb...

9. Find all read only domain controllers (RODC) in the domain
(Knowledge Base/Code)

...DAM)" End If Else Select Case iDSFunctionality Case 0 Set oBase = oRootDse.get("defaultNamingContext") nTMixedDomain = oBase.get("nTMixedDomain") ...

10. HOW TO: Delegate the ability to add a domain controller to the domain (using minimum permissions)
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

...ssions on the source (computers or staging, etc.) container... :: Set the necessary permission on the default computers container :: NOTE. If REDIRCOMP has been run, %COMPCONT% must be changed...