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The SID Myth
Amazing! Admins, myself included, have worried about the machine SID for years and years.  Way back it was ghosting, now it’s with virtualization.  We made sure to create a new SID after creating servers from server images. It turns out that...
Posted: Nov 03 2009, 08:40 PM by OWScott | with no comments
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Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS Issues
I recently upgraded my home Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller to R2. The upgrade process itself wasn’t too much work but was a bit more than ‘next, next, finish’ because the AD schema needed to be updated and the installer required that WSUS be uninstalled...
Shared Desktop on Vista and Windows Server 2008
Sometimes I want to place a shortcut or file on the desktop of a server and want all users of the server to see it.  By default, if you save a file or folders to the desktop, it is placed on only your desktop. Prior to Vista/2008, you could manage...
IIS, Windows Authentication and the Double Hop issue
In IIS, you run into an interesting situation when you need to access another resource off of the IIS server and certain fairly common situations occur. When using Integrated Security, anonymous access is disabled, and impersonation is turned on, a security...
Posted: Aug 22 2008, 01:33 PM by OWScott | with 4 comment(s)
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Enabling XP and Windows Server 2003 to Search All Files Types
Searching for file content on your computer or server is a common task and one where you would expect accurate results. You, like so many of us, may have assumed that but found different results. Within Windows 2000 Server, if you entered something in...
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