Admin Tips

Last Updated on 1 Nov. 2016, Total: 217 Knowledge Base Tips

54 Active Directory
85 Admin
1 Applications
3 Migration
20 Miscellaneous
26 Network
2 Security
21 Virtual Platforms

  1. A Quick Tip To Get Recent AD Replication Failures Using PowerShell

    This tip explains a PowerShell cmdlet you can use to quickly get status of AD Replication... Read More

  2. A Quick Tip to Check Active Directory Schema Version for Windows Server 2012

    This tip explains how you can check Active Directory Forest Schema Version for Windows Server 2012... Read More

  3. Advantages of using the ZTI approach for Windows deployment

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 5 Dec. 2012
    • Section: Migration

    A tip explaining the benefits that the ZTI approach has over the LTI approach for Windows deployment... Read More

  4. Avoid configuring MemoryReserve

    A tip explaining why you should avoid configuring the MemoryReserve registry setting on Hyper-V hosts running Windows Server 2012 and later... Read More

  5. Avoiding Data Loss with Virtual Disks

    A tip on how to avoid data loss with virtual disks... Read More

  6. Back up DHCP Server Configuration Database quickly

    Tip explains how to backup DHCP Server configuration database... Read More

  7. Backing up Hyper-V virtual machines

    A tip on how to use Wbadmin.exe to back up virtual machines on a Hyper-V host... Read More

  8. Before you copy those files.

    A tip on what you can do if you want to use Robocopy to copy some files but before you do so you want to get some idea of how much data will be copied... Read More

  9. Benefits of ZTI over LTI

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 17 April 2013
    • Section: Admin

    This tip compares the benefits of two deployment strategies: Lite Touch Installation (LTI) and Zero Touch Installation (ZTI)... Read More

  10. Best practices when using VMware snapshots

    A tip summarizing some best practices when using snapshots in a VMware environment... Read More