Windows Server

Resetting default file permissions on Windows Server 2003

December 1, 2007

Okay I blew it! Not until today in my career have I ever made a change to a production server that prevented it from booting properly! I had to make a certain application run on a terminal server and the client wanted it “yesterday” as they always do. To cut a long story short I [...]

Group Policy File System and Registry Rights Not Applying

November 20, 2007

I was having a problem at several sites whereby the file and registry permissions that I was trying to set with Group Policy were not applying correctly.

Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:

May 20, 2007

Where the “oy” have weird little French double dot things on the top of them. You can still ping by IP address but DNS and a whole lot of other stuff is poked. Even a repair install didn’t fix this! I was beside myself until uncovering a little documented command.

Mapping Client Network Printers

March 7, 2007

If anyone is wondering why clients network printers wont map across on Windows Terminal Server 2003 it is normally due to the following reasons:

AccPac Error.

January 24, 2007

Currently I am upgrading a large school network from Netware to Windows Server 2003. Part of the migration included moving AccPac over to the new system. Whilst most of this process went extremely smoothly I had a problem whereby when logged in as a normal user (with limited rights onto the local PC) couldn’t use [...]

Setting up a wireless network with Windows Server 2003 and PEAP/EAP.

January 8, 2007

PEAP with IAS is a great way to setup wireless networks that require: a)Their security to be top notch. b)Lot’s of Access Points (greater than 10 or so). c)Minimal administrative maintenance overhead. It brings your wireless security up to a level that is acceptable for use on a security sensitive domain. It is approximately as [...]

Using NTFS Resize

December 7, 2006
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Recently I found myself in a situation which required me to resize an NTFS partition in order to fit it onto a replacement HDD. In searching around and seeking some advice from a work mate I found the SysRescue Live CD (downloadable from: www.sysresccd.org) that has a tool on it called NTFSResize. This is a [...]

EAPOL settings and troubleshooting

November 9, 2006

I had just installed a new AP onto a wireless network of ours that is configured using PEAP with 802.1x authentication this week and was having no end of trouble with clients connecting to it. It seemed to work for about one minute and then things turned decidedly pear shaped and eventually the entire laptop [...]

How to install a disk controller driver when Windows won’t boot following an upgrade of drive type.

November 7, 2006

I found myself in this situation on site about a month ago. I had upgraded (well okay maybe downgraded) a drive from SCSI to SATA and Windows would no longer boot. Normally in this situation I do a repair install but this time I was feeling adventurous and wanted to try something I had thought [...]

Shuffling Data Between Server Drives

November 6, 2006

Shuffling data round server drives is one of those tasks that really scares the hell out of me. The thought of trashing gigs and gigs of incredibly important information does not sit well with me. The guide below will hopefully help you to not fall for some of the pitfalls I have succumb to in [...]

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