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

...want to deal 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 ...

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)

You might 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 mess

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

So how do I know what drive letters apply to what disks in Server Core? The “My Computer” or, “Computer”, as it’s now called Window provides some useful information that

5. Moving and renaming Active Directory objects in LDIF using LDIFDE
(Blogs/paulw)

... In fact, almost all LDIF information out there seems to be found in the RFCs or on the non-MS directory server documentation sites and forums. Because there’s so little information on the sub...

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

I’ve been re-acquainting myself with ILM of late and hit a couple of errors that had me stumped from anywhere between a couple of minutes and four hours! So, I thought I’d provide some br

8. 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

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

...s for ILM “2” is Exchange 2007, so one of my test labs happens to consist of a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller running Exchange 2007 SP1 (yeah, I know this isn’t real...

10. 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