It’s often necessary to check the health of your Windows Domain and Domain Controllers. You need to know if your domain is healthy before and after routine maintenance – Patching and the like – and when you are trying to diagnose problems. I’ve had to do this more times than i care to remember, and … Read more
Windows Domain Health Checks
January 3rd, 2012 | Posted by in administration | Operating Systems | Server Core | Windows - (Comments Off)Configuring email alerts for Windows Server Backups
December 13th, 2011 | Posted by in administration | Backup | Microsoft | Monitoring | Server Core | Windows - (Comments Off)Windows Server backup is a credible backup solution for small environments when backup space is plentiful and an integrated centrally managed solution is not required or not affordable. However one thing that is missing from WSB is any sort of alerting to let you know when your backups have completed or failed. Without this it’s … Read more
This post relates to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Outlook 2010 My setup is that I have a terminal server running Office 2010, hence why it’s installed on a Windows Server. During use of Outlook a “Windows Search” is not installed message was showing in the bottom pane, within the client. This is how to … Read more
Opening the Control Panel via Command Line / Run – Win 2008
May 5th, 2011 | Posted by in Windows - (Comments Off)Hi All I have a Windows Server which is tied down, so that the control panel is not visible. I therefore needed to work out how to open it up, via a command. It was dead simple, after doing some digging around. CODE Goto start and then run – alternatively hit “Windows Key” + R … Read more
Heres a great little tool, for setting various computer and network settings in your Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation Download the attachment (ISO) in this post. Either copy the contents out onto your Server Core machine or Attach the ISO to a HyperV VM – Your Server Core machine Browse to the drive / … Read more
SysPrep is now installed by default onto the OS C:windowssystem32sysprep no more having to copy it off of the Windows Server CD-ROM Just double click sysprep.exe Choose Out of Box experience, if you want to clone / strip out the persistent info, then choose shutdown. and you’re ready to clone, copy, reuse whatever.
Guide to installing Windows Server 2008 Server Core
April 19th, 2011 | Posted by in Server Core | Windows - (Comments Off)Windows Server Core is new to Windows Server 2008 and is a command line, GUI less, cut down version, of the OS. Once installed you are left with a command prompt and thats it. How do you go about getting the server named, networked, updated etc. with only a command line to help you? Here … Read more