1. Initialising a new disk with DISKPART
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...ully. Hope this helps! If you’d rather use the disk management UI (MMC snap-in), see this post for information on how to configure that to work....

2. So how do I know what drive letters apply to what disks in Server Core?
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...The “My Computer” or, “Computer”, as it’s now called Window provides some useful information that isn’t immediately available to someone faced with a command Window...

3. Moving and renaming Active Directory objects in LDIF using LDIFDE
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...ching I realised that the LDIFDE documentation doesn’t really go into LDIF and there’s very little information on the Microsoft web site about LDIF. In fact, almost all LDIF information o...

4. Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Last Interactive Logon Information Feature
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...h Windows Server 2008 Domain Functional Level (DFL3) is something referred to as “Last Interactive Logon Information”. Essentially, this is a Windows NT 6.x (Vista and Server 2008 at the ...

5. Troubleshooting ILM (MIIS) Failed: Filter Rejection (rejected-by-filter) error
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...ere quick and easy to work out what was happening this one took a lot more time and I couldn’t find much information on the web about it either.  Basically, the ILM2 MA wasn’t perform...

6. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException Error
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... stumped from anywhere between a couple of minutes and four hours! So, I thought I’d provide some brief information on the error and the reason I encountered it. I’ll post each error as ...

7. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException Error
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... stumped from anywhere between a couple of minutes and four hours! So, I thought I’d provide some brief information on the error and the reason I encountered it. I’ll post each error as ...

8. Prompting for the computer name in an unattended installation of Windows Server 2008
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...to stop bugging you with it). This is the configuration interface for these trivial tasks. Based on this information I would normally recommend to customers that they follow this advice and perf...

9. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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...e users in this OU. Running the above set of commands mailbox-enables these users and then outputs some basic information illustrating that this has succeeded. [PS] C:\Users\paulw-a>Get-User -or...

10. Automating Windows Server 2008 installations
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...anywhere –it just needs to be accessible when needed. There’s already a substantial amount of information on deploying NT6.x at the moment, so I’m not going to reiterate it. Th...