Archive for the ‘Windoze’ Category

Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Original article here.

You can make the server execute a script at shutdown time by using the Group Policy Editor, which is an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in.  I will explain how to use the Group Policy Editor shortly, but first, we need to create the batch file that will shut down the Exchange services.

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Modifying SBS 2003 SP1’s bkprunner.exe for Improved Backup Performance

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Originally from here

Open Explorer and go to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Small Business Server\Backup”
Make a copy of bkprunner.exe

Download and extract XVI32.
Run XVI32.exe
Open bkprunner.exe in XVI32

The address range $10F0-$11B7 is used for backups to .bkf files
The address range $11B8-$1277 is used for backups to tape

To turn off verify when backing up to a .bkf
Go to address $113A
In the hex pane (the middle one), type in the following hex values:
6E 00 6F 00 20
This enters in the text “no ” in Unicode format.

XP RDP Concurrent Connections

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Original from HERE

Copy of orginal post:

I mentioned before that Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off (and ironically, this can be done even without his permission) before starting work on the box. This is irritating and removes much of the productivity that Remote Desktop brings to Windows. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2

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T-SQL Scripts

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Sample T-SQL Scripts for Backup/Restore and Index and Statistics Maintenance

SQL Performance

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

http://www.sqlteam.com/article/sql-server-2000-performance-tuning-tools

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/rdbmspft.mspx#EZPAC

Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Hopefully most people know that MOSS is a superset of WSS. In other words, MOSS takes the foundation laid by WSS v3.0 and expands upon it, creating features that sit on top of it, utilize the core WSS framework, and extend it in such a way that is beneficial to larger companies, enterprise deployments, and portal scenarios. The following is a list of things that MOSS provides that WSS v3.0 does not. I figured it would be a waste of text to show the features that the two have in common, or the places in which MOSS re-uses WSS functionality without change or enhancement.

http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/moss_vs_wss.htm

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX101758691033.aspx?ofcresset=1

http://blogs.officezealot.com/rbedell/archive/2005/10/27/8365.aspx

IIS and ISA

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=331062

Sharepoint Links

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Office and Sharepoint site

Blog Links:
Tasks
Gantt Charts

Technet:
Sharepoint site.

Windows Memory Dump

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Useful link on how to analyse a windows BSOD memory dump.

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