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Mark Parris (Microsoft MVP) has a post about reducing client authentication loads on a DC.
Essentially, to reduce the number of client authentication requests processed by a DC, adjusting the server’s DNS weight and/or priority will do the trick. Specifically, the number of client authentications is decided by the weight while to ensure the DC does [...]

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Running the Professional version for a few days. I liked the “Easy Transfer” wizard that made moving personal files … well, easy so my first taste of Win7 is positive so far.
I also like the stability (so far) of the OS. It allows me to install and use most of the software I had running [...]

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This is major good news from the MS folks: I recently discovered it is possible to automate metadata cleanup, required after the forced removal of an AD Domain Controller.
Even better, on DCs running Windows Server 2008, deleting the DC’s computer object in ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers MMC) initiates the cleanup process automatically.
More information [...]

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And there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
That sentence pretty much describes every other day working to administer a Microsoft Windows installation. This is because I get to deal with what I’ve come to call “illogical deviances”, abnormalities, downright idiocy. Over time, I’ve come to understand that I can’t expect the same outcome [...]

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Anyone remember the old movie Force Ten From Navarone? If you don’t know it and like WWII movies, I heartily recommend it.
So why Force Ten From Redmond? Microsoft’s latest update cycle seems to be doing some strange things regardless of what the users decides to choose as their update process. As you know, there are [...]

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For the longest time, it was a burr embedded in my side.
With ISA servers standing guard in front of our Exchange Server 2007 installation and having a UCC (or SAN) SSL certificate installed, Outlook (2003 and 2007) users on Windows XP were having the hardest time getting access to Exchange via Outlook Anywhere.
As it turns [...]

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Being that I’m a senior controller on the VATSIM network, I have to work with Zulu time (also known as UTC or GMT) all the time so I set up an additional clock to be shown on my Vista x64 machine only to find out it’s off by one hour.
At first I thought it was [...]

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Um?
One would think Microsoft had received enough elbow pokes for Vista without actually creating that problem?

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According to a report released by the Yankee Group [www.yankeegroup.com] titled 2007-2008 Global Server Operating System Reliability Survey, based on a poll of 400 corporate managers, executives, and administrators in 27 countries, both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 are the new downtime twins.
AIX experienced a mere 36 minutes of downtime over the course of [...]

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We’re having a telephone conference call conversation with a vendor who will try their best to sell us a Network Access Control “solution,” as they say.
To be sure, this is a good thing to have in one’s arsenal, but I’m loathe to buy something that Windows 2008 includes for free—Microsoft doesn’t make too many things [...]

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