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How to properly restore (objects in) the 2003 AD database

Windows 2000 /Active Directory has been around for more than 7 years now. I’ve been using AD for almost 7 years, and due to its stability, I never had to recover a deleted object in AD. (Knock on wood). Read more

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Performing AD Schema Updates in a safe way

Updating from 2003 to 2003 R2 & implementing Exchange are 2 common administrative tasks which both require a schema update. Since I’ve mentioned "updating from 2003 to 2003 R2", I’ll take the opportunity to add some "notes from the Read more

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How to backup VMWare ESX virtual machines

Today, I will try to explain 2 techniques that will allow you to backup your vmdk files (virtual machines) on a VMWare ESX 3.0.x server. My lab runs on 3.0.2, but this will work on 3.0.1 (and maybe earlier Read more

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Exchange 2007 : Indexing and searching mailboxes

The Exchange 2007 search engine has much improved over the index/search engines that were available in Exchange 2000/2003. The new search is less resource-hungry, fast, searched inside attachments, and is enabled out of the box.

Enable/Disable search

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Delegating AD Admin tasks to non-Admin accounts

Designing a distributed/international Active Directory is certainly the most important piece of a successful AD implementation. One of the issues that should be dealt with is whether you want to allow other people to be Enterprise/Domain Admin or not. Read more

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How to restore a Windows 2003 DC using ASR and VMWare

The following procedure should work for any type of hardware, but I’ve used VMWare (so this procedure is also valid if you want to convert a physical Domain Controller to VMWare). Additionally, the procedure works for Windows 2003 server, Read more

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AD 2003 DC Restore Technique using VMWare (without having to grant local DC/Domain Admin rights)

In certain distributed AD scenario’s, Domain Admins group membership or local DC admin privileges are restricted to certain people only. This is a good thing to do, but it requires you to think about certain issues before they happen.

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Moving VMWare server/workstation .vmdk to ESX Server

While finishing the setup of my VMWare ESX infrastructure, I needed to move a couple of virtual machines from a VMWare Server (running on Windows XP) to my ESX server. Migrating most of those machines was relatively easy : Read more

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Creating and installing lzm modules in Backtrack 2

Today, I will explain how you can create your own lzm modules & patch the backtrack 2 final ISO file (by adding your new module).

First of all, get a fresh copy of the bt2final.iso file from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html

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How to manually install Dameware Remote client

Manual Installation Instructions:

You can manually install the Dameware Mini Remote Control Client Agent Service (DWRCS.EXE) on any machine, by simply coping the required files to the appropriate directory on the remote machine, and then executing a simple command Read more

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