Miscellaneous

Last Updated on 31 May 2009, Total: 66 Knowledge Base Tips

  1. Forcing SUS and WSUS Updates

    A look at how to force SUS and WSUS updates... Read More

  2. Getting low-level disk info

    How to get low-level disk info using WMIC... Read More

  3. Group Membership in Multi-Forest Scenarios

    Clearing up uncertainty around some Microsoft documentation on how groups can be nested... Read More

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Installing Windows into a different folder

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

  7. 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

  8. List of services

    Generating a quick list of services running on a machine... Read More

  9. MSDN Webcast: Building Reliable Web Applications on Windows Server 2003

    106 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

  10. MSDN Webcast: UDDI on Windows Server 2003

    86 minutes - In this intermediate session, you will learn how UDDI is used as a directory and discovery service for XML Web Services. We’ll dig into how XML web services can be published and located through both the UDDI Web interface, and through the UDDI API in Windows Server 2003. We’ll explore some more advanced features of UDDI by... Read More