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Using SCW on Windows Server 2008

April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Maintain Windows, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows Server

Back in 2005, Microsoft shipped Windows Server 2003 SP1. That service pack introduced the first roles-based security management tool for Windows: the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW). Microsoft designed SCW to be an attack surface reduction tool first and foremost. Its purpose was to analyze what you were actually doing with your computer and automatically configure [...]

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Consolidating Multiple Windows Domains

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Maintain Windows, Tips & Techniques

If you’re considering bringing Windows Server 2008 onto your network, then one of the decisions that you will eventually have to make is how you plan to integrate this new operating system into your network.  In the vast majority of cases, Windows Server 2008 domain controllers are simply added to existing domains, or some of [...]

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Setting Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Display Data Prioritization

April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Setup, Maintain Windows, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows Server

Windows Server 2008 holds some major key benefits in Terminal Services technology. Some of these are discussed in various articles on my site (see Related Articles section below). One of these features is Display Data Prioritization. Display Data Prioritization in Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services allows for automatic control over the virtual channel traffic that [...]

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Managing Windows 2008 Server Core Local Settings

April 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Maintain Windows, Tips & Techniques

A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles, which reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. A server running a Server Core installation supports the following server roles: * Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) * Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) [...]

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Windows 7 Simple TCP/IP Services – What and How?

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Maintain Windows, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows 7

Windows 7 Simple TCP/IP Services are a collection of tools that may help you as a network admin. Whether or not they are of help – you should at least know what they are and where to find them. Recently I was browsing an online forum and a new user was asking about the TCP/IP [...]

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How to Quickly Analyze your Windows Server 2008 Performance Monitor Logs

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · How To, Maintain Windows

Ever have a performance problem, but don’t know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (that are provided). The tool [...]

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Clearing Search’s Index in Windows 7

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Maintain Windows, Windows 7

Each time you search for files in Windows Explorer, Windows 7 stores the individual search query in its history. So, when you open Search, you will find all your previous searches listed. Now this may not matter for some users, but others may find this a distraction, and would prefer to start “fresh”. If you’re [...]

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