Posts:

Securing Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory

According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows server version ever.

Windows 2008 does include many features that will help increase overall security of the OS, or assist you with securing AD, the network, etc. Most Read more

Read More

Using custom/non-Performance Counter data to build graphs in Operations Manager 2007

It is pretty easy to use data collected by Performance monitors in Counter objects within OpsMgr 2007. You can create graphs, create rules/monitors alerts, etc

But you can do the same with any type of information that can be Read more

Read More

Monitoring disk space utilization growth/increase with Operations Manager 2007

By default, Microsoft Operations Manager includes some monitors / rules that have the ability to monitor the disk utilization of system and/or data disks of your servers (and clients). This is a really nice feature, however there may be Read more

Read More

Add ‘Command Prompt Here’ when you right-click in Explorer

Open your favourite registry editor (regedit will do just fine)

Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" Locate the "Folder" key Open the "shell" branch Create a new key called "Command Prompt Here" Open this key and create a new key called Read more

Read More

Creating empty VMWare .vmdk files

Having empty vmdk files allows you to – create virtual machines even with vmware player – create additional disks and add them to existing vmware installations

The easiest way to create custom vmdk ‘disks’ is by using a free Read more

Read More

IP Autotuning in Vista

At any given time, the amount that TCP can send is governed by three factors: the congestion window, the receive window and the number of bytes available to send. Without using TCP window scaling (which is disabled by default Read more

Read More

System/Disk Backup in Vista using command line script

Microsoft has implemented a really neat feature in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, allowing you to perform a full disk or even system backup, while the system is running.

This new backup tool used Block Level backup and uses Read more

Read More

Open a command prompt with system rights in Vista (and XP)

First of all, download psexec from the Microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx     From and elevated/admin command prompt (cmd.exe, "run as administrator"), run psexec –s cmd.exe

  

C:\>whoami peter

C:\>psexec -s cmd.exe

PsExec v1.83 – Execute processes remotely Read more

Read More

Run explorer window with administrator rights in Vista

Easy, don’t you think ?  Right click explorer(.exe), choose "run as administrator" and you’re set ?

  

Nope – doesn’t work !  And this is why

  

The UAC (User Account Control) feature in Vista provides a user with Read more

Read More

Enable incoming icmp (ping) in Vista

By default, Vista has the Windows Firewall is turned on. This means that all incoming connections are being blocked. This may be a good thing in certain cases, but not restrictive enough in most cases, because all outgoing traffic Read more

Read More