unattended mode to install and remove ADDS on Windows Server 2008-based DC

The Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard (Dcpromo.exe) performs the following tasks:

  • Installs Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on Windows Server 2008-based workgroup servers and member servers
  • Removes AD DS from Windows Server 2008-based domain controllers

You can use this wizard together with an answer file to perform these tasks in unattended mode. Continue reading “unattended mode to install and remove ADDS on Windows Server 2008-based DC”

Enable Backup and Restore for Group Policy

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while surfing the net I found this cool blog about enabling backup and resoter for your group policies.

Jeremy Moskowitz wrote it and here’s a little preview of the article. On the end is the link to the complete article.

Continue reading “Enable Backup and Restore for Group Policy”

Time to take checkdisk

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Through twitter i received a tweet about a new whitepaper providing guidance for sizing NTFS volumes. In this article there was a nice passage about the time it takes for checkdisk to check a volume. Here’s the passage: Continue reading “Time to take checkdisk”

New MS Knowledgebase articles for week 44

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Here’s the overview of new knowledgebase articles from Microsoft products. Continue reading “New MS Knowledgebase articles for week 44”

KB articles for week 42 2010

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here’s the weekly overview from the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles: Continue reading “KB articles for week 42 2010”