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. Monitoring Paging Activity

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 30 May 2007
    • Section: Admin

    Which performance counter to use to monitor hard page faults... Read More

  2. More Grace Period for Restoring Active Directory

    Watch those tombstones when restoring Active Directory from backup--but there's less worry if you have Service Pack 1 installed... Read More

  3. Moving Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Applications to Windows Server 2003

    • by Wayne Maples
    • Published on 20 April 2004
    • Section: Applications

    202 KB Microsoft Word file - explains how to plan a migration strategy, and it describes how you can use various utilities and technical resources to deploy Windows Server 2003 as an application server and Web server, while minimizing disruption and additional investment... Read More

  4. Moving Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Applications to Windows Server 2003

    • by Wayne Maples
    • Published on 7 Sept. 2004
    • Section: Migration

    202 KB Microsoft Word file - explains how to plan a migration strategy, and it describes how you can use various utilities and technical resources to deploy Windows Server 2003 as an application server and Web server, while minimizing disruption and additional investment... Read More

  5. Moving the Default Spooling Directory

    In some scenarios, you may need to move the default spooling location for printers on a system. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do that... Read More

  6. NETBIOS: Leave On or Turn Off?

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 14 April 2005
    • Section: Network

    NETBIOS is supposed to be no longer needed since Windows 2000, but this is not really the case... Read More

  7. Naming Network Connections

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 April 2006
    • Section: Network

    Take a moment to name your network connections appropriately and save yourself time when troubleshooting later on... Read More

  8. Naming printers

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 15 Feb. 2007
    • Section: Admin

    Be careful naming your printers if you want to be able to manage them!... Read More

  9. NetWare to Windows Server 2003 Migration Planning Guide

    • by Wayne Maples
    • Published on 20 April 2004
    • Section: Migration

    5236 KB Microsoft Word file - This guide is intended for customers planning to migrate all or part of their Novell NetWare environment to the Windows Server 2003 operating system and Active Directory® directory service. Using the utilities included in the Microsoft Windows® Services for NetWare product, you can facilitate directory management and improve data availability by establishing directory interoperability... Read More

  10. Netsh dhcp not working

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 2 Aug. 2005
    • Section: Network

    Have trouble running the netsh dhcp command to configure your DHCP servers?... Read More