Admin Tips

Last Updated on 27 Sept. 2016, Total: 300 Knowledge Base Tips

53 Active Directory
123 Admin
1 Applications
3 Exchange
13 Migration
20 Miscellaneous
45 Network
22 Security
10 Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
9 Virtual Platforms

  1. Interpreting Security Log Events

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 5 March 2012
    • Section: Security

    Here are two resources you can use to help you interpret events from the Security event log... Read More

  2. Introducing the Read-Only Domain Controller

    A new Windows Server 2008 feature that is drawing great praise is the introduction of the Read-Only Domain Controller. Let’s look at what this means to you... Read More

  3. Issues after disabling administrative shares

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 Nov. 2008
    • Section: Admin

    Here are several reasons why you should never disable the default administrative shares on Windows computers, especially in an enterprise (managed) environment... Read More

  4. Issues using Windows Server 2008 as a workstation OS

    Some users like to run a server OS such as Windows Server 2008 on their workstations. This tip describes some of the issue you may encounter when you do this... Read More

  5. Issues when moving a drive between servers

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 Nov. 2008
    • Section: Admin

    Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 both use NTFS version 5.1. Does this mean that a disk that's used in one platform could be moved to the other and "just work"?... Read More

  6. Limit the Login Time of Users

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 28 March 2012
    • Section: Admin

    Specify exact when a user can login for control and security reasons... Read More

  7. Limit the Workstations Where Users Can Login

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 28 March 2012
    • Section: Network

    Specify up to 8 computers a user can logon with... Read More

  8. Linking GPOs across forests

    Some tips concerning linking Group Policy Objects across Active Directory forests... Read More

  9. Log Files Of Server Manager

    This article explains log files which are used by Server Manager in Full installation and Server Core. This article applies to Windows Server 2008 only... Read More

  10. Managing Hardware RAID Using Diskraid

    How to manage hardware RAID using the Diskraid command... Read More