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

...at’s for sure! So, how then, do we 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 conte...

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

... 2008 systems. The interesting aspect of this is that simply enabling the rules in the “Remote Volume Management” firewall group on the target isn’t enough to allow this to work...

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

...n’t as obvious as it could be, but it is pretty trivial with the DISKPART “shell”: LIST VOLUME is the command, here’s me running this against my laptop to illustrate its use (n...

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

...to me or because a customer has asked me about it. Please note that I’ve been working with the Volume License disk and have therefore not needed to worry about a product key. When I quickl...

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

... Creating snapshot... Snapshot set generated successfully. Snapshot mounted as C:\$SNAP_200801311546_VOLUMED$\ Initiating DEFRAGMENTATION mode... Source Database: C:\$SNAP_200801311546_VOL...

6. INFO: The Windows Support Tools and Resource Kit Tools
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

... If you have a slipstreamed version of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, such as those that are included with Volume License agreement and MSDN subscriber shipments, the updated tools are on the installat...

7. HOW TO: Remove domains and domain controllers
(Knowledge Base/Articles)

...ete that separately. However, you must delete the FRS Member object (nTFRSMember) from the Domain System Volume (SYSVOL) Replica set. To do this, you must delete the FRS Member object for this domai...