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

... –install wins-server or on a server core machine by typing start /w ocsetup wins-sc. Fire up the management snap-in, right-click on the WINS server and choose properties. Select the adva...

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

...ple tasks that you take for granted are no longer quite so simple. One such example is the way that the disk management snap-in automatically discovers a new disk and runs a wizard that allows you to...

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

...embers of a domain that you get an RPC server unavailable type message when attempting to connect to the Disk management snap-in of a remote machine. While this isn’t specific to server core, i...

4. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.MissingParentObjectException Error
(Blogs/paulw)

...xception: Object "cn=Peter Griffin,ou=users,dc=msresource,dc=net" does not have a parent object in management agent "ad-lds". at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.CSEntryImp...

5. Troubleshooting the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException Error
(Blogs/paulw)

...his: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoCompatiblePartitionFoundException: The partition filter criteria for management agent "ad-lds" do not include an object with DN "cn=Burt Reynold...

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

...llow this advice and perform these post-installation tasks via automation in any number of ways, e.g. systems management software, post-installation scripts or have Microsoft deployment or WDS do it. ...

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

...ween mailbox-enabled users and users with the RecipientType property of the Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Management.User class. If a user is mailbox-enabled then the value of this property is &l...

8. Group Policy Restricted Groups
(Blogs/paulw)

...ons in the domain, but not the servers, e.g. a desktop administrators group and maybe a group for the systems management software that manages workstations. In this case you don’t wish to reset ...

9. HOW-TO: Delegate permissions to a DFS namespace
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

...ples of how to achieve this using both the GUI and command line. Security is a major facet of today's IT management. As more and more people are becoming ‘computer literate', and more and ...

10. HOW-TO: Limit DFS referrals to one link in a replica set
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

...ples of how to achieve this using both the GUI and command line. Security is a major facet of today's IT management. As more and more people are becoming ‘computer literate', and more and ...