If you’re planning on running 2003 and 2008 domain controlers in the same domain you need to update the AD schema on all of your 2003 DC.
To do this pop/map the CD and execute the following
d:\sources\adprep\adprep.exe /forestprep
d:\sources\adprep\adprep.exe /domainprep /gpprep
d:\sources\adprep\adprep.exe /domainprep /rodcPREP
The lack of a GUI tends to make simple tasks that little bit harder, ie installing VMware tools.
Start the install as per normal by clicking on Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. You’ll find that nothing will happen, well not quite you now have a cdrom (d:\).
In the command prompt execute the following, obviously replacing d:\ with what ever drive letter was mapped.
msiexec.exe /i “d:\VMware Tools.msi” /qn
Once installed the server will reboot.
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WSS maintains time zone information independently of the host operating system in the text file TIMEZONE.XML. Traditionally, hotfixes were used to update TIMEZONE.XML, but in November 2007 it was decided that this was not the most efficient way to make these changes, and development of an alternative mechanism was started. Until this work is completed (the estimate is early in 2008), TIMEZONE.XML will need to be updated manually.
To prepare WSS for a daylight saving change, the following steps need to be performed:
I needed an easy way of working out how many active users are on the network in a 60 day period.
I realise I could have done this with DSQUERY/DSGET but I figured it’s high time to learn powershell.. So, this is my first real foray into Windows PowerShell.
To make my life easier I Installed PowerGUI and enabled the Active Directory QAD cmdlets.
The script below searches for all accounts that were logged in within the last 60 days, it only searches in the users OU as specified by the $searchRoot variable.
Windows XP requires drivers for the ESX SCSI adapter otherwise it comes back with…
Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.
Download the Vmware SCSI Driver and using Data Store manager upload it to your server.
In machine properties connect the floppy drive and select the image.
During startup press F6 to load additoinal drivers.
Bingo Bango~!
Microsoft introduced a new Internet explorer security set with windows server 2003 and now Server 2008. While it should remain on there may be instances you want it off, for example on a Terminal Server.
To turn it off in Windows Server 2008 you need to do the following.
EDIT: You can get a quick overview by using Blue Screen View and the minidump file.
So you’re getting BBSODs (Bloody BSOD) with cryptic stop errors of 0×00000000, google is about as useful as a wet sock and the thought of calling MS support makes you break out in a cold sweat.
Roll up your sleeves and we’ll get dirty with a bit of debugging.