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. Copying Profiles Using Sysprep

    There is a feature that is recently new to Sysprep that can speed up your time and get rid of one of the larger headaches of using the tool... Read More

  2. Copying a Web Server Configuration

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 14 Sept. 2005
    • Section: Network

    It would be nice if you could just copy the metabase file from one IIS box to another to make a clone of your web server... Read More

  3. Correcting Corrupted Performance Counters

    The performance log can sometimes become corrupted on a Windows Server. This is how you correct it... Read More

  4. Creating Dummy (Test) Users

    How to create a bunch of dummy or test users quickly in Active Directory... Read More

  5. Creating a GPO Naming Scheme

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 21 June 2007
    • Section: Admin

    Group Policy Objects can be very confusing if you don’t keep track of them. Creating a naming scheme is a good way to do this... Read More

  6. Creating a password reset disk

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 2 Jan. 2008
    • Section: Security

    Creating a password reset disk... Read More

  7. Custom Provider Creation in MOM

    • by Santhosh Sivarajan
    • Published on 11 Oct. 2006
    • Section: Admin

    Sometimes we need to use custom providers to create MOM Rules. Here is an example of creating a custom provider to return free hard drive space information from drive H... Read More

  8. Cut and Paste Virtual Directories

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 6 Sept. 2005
    • Section: Network

    It would be nice if one could cut and paste a virtual directory from one IIS website to another... Read More

  9. DHCP Reservations and Exclusions

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 20 Sept. 2007
    • Section: Network

    When configuring a DHCP server I have often seen people interchange the words reservation and exclusion. These are two incredibly different concepts... Read More

  10. Default GPO Permissions

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 13 July 2006
    • Section: Security

    It is very important to assign appropriate permissions to every GPO you create. Here I list the default permissions given to a new GPO... Read More