Admin Tips

Last Updated on 19 July 2011, Total: 361 Knowledge Base Tips

37 Active Directory
76 Admin
9 Applications
4 Exchange
11 Migration
66 Miscellaneous
62 Network
77 Security
12 Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
7 Virtual Platforms

  1. IIS 6 and MIME Types

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 7 Sept. 2005
    • Section: Network

    Serving up files from a web server running IIS 6 can sometimes be problematical... Read More

  2. Identifying Unused Accounts

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 11 July 2007
    • Section: Admin

    How to identify unused user accounts... Read More

  3. Improving Availability and Reliability with Microsoft Reliability Service

    135 KB Microsoft Word file - This white paper introduces the Microsoft® Reliability Service (MRS), a Web–based service that gives customers the ability to track and improve the availability of their operating system and major applications. With MRS, customers can identify causes for unplanned downtime and take preemptive actions to decrease downtime in the future. This paper describes how MRS... Read More

  4. Increase file server performance

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 July 2006
    • Section: Security

    Don't use your domain controller as a file server--here's why... Read More

  5. Increasing Free Disk Space on the System Partition

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 27 March 2008
    • Section: Admin

    When the system partition on your server gets full, and hardware upgrades aren’t an option, what are you going to do? Here are a few tips... Read More

  6. Inside IIS 6.0 and Windows Server 2003

    78 minutes - you will learn how to fully leverage the new reliability and management features in IIS 6.0. We’ll also explore IIS 5.0 compatibility mode and configure a poorly behaved unmanaged C++ ISAPI web application to automatically recycle to maintain availability while it is rewritten in managed code. We’ll learn how to programmatically modify the XML Metabase or recover... Read More

  7. Installing Windows into a different folder

    How to install Windows in a folder other than \\Windows... Read More

  8. Installing components from the command line

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 19 July 2011
    • Section: Admin

    How to install Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system components from the command line... Read More

  9. Installing the Windows Server 2003 Network Monitor

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 18 May 2006
    • Section: Network

    The Windows Server 2003 Network Monitor is a very useful tool for network monitoring and troubleshooting. Here is how to install it... Read More

  10. Introduction to Shadow Copies of Shared Folders

    243 K Word doc - Shadow Copies of Shared Folders helps alleviate data loss by creating shadow copies of files or folders that are stored on network file shares at predetermined time intervals. A shadow copy is essentially a previous version of the file or folder at a specific point in time... Read More