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(307719)To put your Internet Explorer 6.0 Favorites in alphabetical order,
follow these steps:
Start Internet Explorer.
Click Favorites, and then select a single Favorites icon from the list.
Right-click the icon, and then click Sort by Name.
Microsoft Office
How to Apply SP-2 to Administrative Installations 278272
Micrososft Exchange Server 5.5
SP4 http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/55/sp4dl_en.asp
Microsoft Word
Troubleshooting Printer Output Issues in Word Q304433
Overview of Fixprnsv.exe Q247196
Tools Options Save Tab: "Prompt for Document Properties" - displays document properties page when saving a new file
Microsoft Domains and Firewall config
How to Configure a Firewall for Domains and Trusts - 179442
Microsoft Licensing Info
MS Terminal Server Licensing FAQ -> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/tsfaq.asp
IIS
Rolled Up Patch - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms02-018.asp
Code Red Patch
Nimda Information & Cleanup
Windows XP
Tip source: ActiveWin
If you have to reinstall Windows XP you normally will have to reactivate too. Well not anymore. Just copy wpa.dbl after you activated the first time. It is located in the WINDOWS\system32 folder. Now if you reinstall Windows XP just copy the file back and you're up and running again
Windows 2000 Professional
10 Maximum inbound Connections allowed to Windows 2000 Professional (Q122920)
Symptoms: My Computer, My Documents, Internet Explorer Icons have stripes
Resolution: Change the colour properties on the screen to 256 colours, apply, then change the colours back to 16 bit or 32 bit, or whatever the setting was, apply, and this should fix the problem.
Windows 2000
SP4 http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/6/a/e6a04295-d2a8-40d0-a0c5-241bfecd095e/w2ksp4_en.exe
Re-direct "My Documents" using Group Policies - Q216463 + Q221837
TELNET Client - Local Echo: run "telnet", type "set LOCAL_ECHO", to turn off local echo type "unset LOCAL_ECHO"
DNS, DHCP, etc MMS Snap-ins:
To install these tools, double-click the Adminpak.msi file in the I386 folder on the Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD-ROM
Change local admin (active directory) password: Q239803
Roaming Profiles - problems
Roaming Profiles May Not Synchronize Correctly in Windows [Q255113]
How to Prevent Overloading on the First Windows 2000- or Windows XP-Based DC During Domain Upgrade [298713]
To Configure windows 2000 Pro to act as a router modify the following key:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\Parameters\IPENableRouter = 0x1
RIS SIS and Groveler
How to remove RIS and SIS: Q299873
Description of SIS and Groveler Q299726
How to Restore a Volume that is managed by SIS Q263027
"Delayed Write Failed" Error Message When You Write a File to a Server - 321733
To work around this problem, turn off SMB signing on the server:
Start Registry Editor.
Locate, and then click the enablesecuritysignature value under the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters
On the Edit menu, click DWORD, type 0, and then click OK.
Quit Registry Editor.
Stop and then restart the server service, or restart the computer.
SUS
SUS Client: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/recommended/susclient/download.asp
Configure SUS Client: 328010
Terminal Server
You can download the latest rdp client software from
http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/remotedesktop/
Redirected Printing Through a Terminal Services Session May Not Work with Windows 2000 SP3 328020
Up-to-Date Best Practices
To alleviate the risks that an upgrade presents and to provide the easiest possible path to a completely AD environment, follow these best practices:
NB: VERY IMPORTANT!!! When configuring an NT server for the follwoing procedure,
MAKE SURE THAT THE DNS DOMAIN NAME IN THE PROPERTIES OF TCP/IP IS THE NEW ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN NAME!!!
Otherwise you will have what is called a "disjointed domain", eg machine name will be SERVER.OLD_NT_DOMAIN, not SERVER.activedirectory.com.au
This will cause you MAJOR problems with Active Directory
Make a new PDC, and upgrade it. Perform a clean installation of NT, and create a new Backup Domain Controller (BDC) in your NT domain.
Promote that computer to be the domain's PDC, and perform the Win2K upgrade on the newly promoted PDC. This step ensures that the computer you upgrade is in the best possible condition.
Keep a BDC offline during the upgrade. If all else fails, you can take your failed-to-upgrade PDC offline, bring your spare BDC back online, and promote it to PDC. Within just a few minutes, you're back at square one and operating normally. Make sure the spare BDC is up-to-date before taking it offline and starting the PDC's upgrade.
If you choose to keep a BDC offline during your upgrade, use NT's Server Manager to force the NT domain to replicate. That will ensure the BDC has an accurate copy of the domain, making it a useful backup.
Clean up your domain before upgrading. Delete old user accounts and group accounts, and get everything into tip-top shape. Most especially, use the Server Manager application to delete any old computer accounts. You'll help speed the upgrade process and ensure a cleaner AD domain when the upgrade is complete.
Upgrade all NT domains, then merge them. If you have multiple NT domains, upgrade each domain into a separate AD domain. Then move all the users and groups into your root AD domain and decommission the other domains.
The last tip is the toughest one to architect. Ideally, the first NT domain you upgrade should become a new AD root domain. Subsequent NT domains should be upgraded into child domains of that root. This process makes an easy task of migrating the child domain users and groups into the root domain and collapsing the structure into a single root domain. If there are political reasons that prevent you from taking this approach, migrate each NT domain into a separate AD root domain. Create trusts between those roots to form a forest, then move users and groups from domain to domain until everything's where you want it to be. You can then decommission any empty, unused domains.
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Microsoft Windows Time - Important for Active Directory
(832017) The Windows Time system service maintains date and time synchronization on all Windows XP and Windows Server 2003-based computers on a network. This service uses Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize computer clocks so that an accurate clock value, or timestamp is assigned for network validation and for resource access requests. The implementation of NTP and the integration of time providers help make Windows Time a reliable and scalable time service for your enterprise. For computers that are not joined to a domain, you can configure Windows Time to synchronize time with an external time source. If this service is turned off, the time setting for local computers is not synchronized with a time service in the Windows domain or with an externally configured time service. Windows Server 2003 uses NTP. NTP runs on UDP port 123. The Windows 2000 version of this service uses Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP). SNTP also runs on UDP port 123.
System service name: W32TimeApplication protocol Protocol Ports
NTP TCP 123
SNTP UDP 123
Active Directory - Troubleshooting
Seize AD Operational Master Roles - 255504
HOW TO: Optimize Group Policy for Logon Performance in Windows 2000
315418
Group Policy Solutions:
Block access to USB storage devices:
"It needs to write a key at the following node:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR
You may deny the access to this node.
If you need to apply it to many users, you may set the Group Policy to deny
the access to the registry from the domain user and computer management."
Windows NT
Optimizing Windows NT for Performance (Q146005)
How to Optimize Windows NT to Run Over Slow WAN Links w/TCP/IP (Q140552)
Minimising WAN Traffic (Q142692)
Rebuilding NT Servers
Saving and Restoring Existing Windows NT Shares (Q125996)
Restoring a Backup of Windows NT to Another Computer (Q130928)
How to Restore a Backup to a Computer with Different Hardware (Q139822)
How to Move a Windows Installation to Different Hardware (Q249694)
How to Back Up and Restore a Print Server Configuration [Q214795]
NT Browser Issues
Frequent Browser Elections with Windows 95-Based Clients (Q246489) - Martin
Information on Browser Operation [Q102878]
Excessive Browser Announcements May Force Computer Shutdown [Q263307]
PXE-boot on floppy
On the following website, you'll find a PXE floppy disk with more supported network cards than the RIS one:
http://www.argontechnology.com/rbfg/index.shtml |
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