So in the spirit of reinventing the wheel, I present to you Tomalak’s excellent script (see above) but completely rewritten in Powershell!!! The main reason I did this was to evangelise the awesome powers of Powershell, but also because I despise vbscript with my entire being. It’s mostly feature to feature identical, but I did … Read more
I’d try blat. You could write a vbscript but there is no built in executable to send mail
The Crypt32.dll 5.131.3790.5235 version fixes the issue (after a reboot). It is available at http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2868626 The previously installed version was 5.131.3790.5014 version and it did not fix the issue. According to this post (https://mendel129.wordpress.com/tag/crypt32-dll/), there are two variants of the 5014 version: one from Windows Update (KB2661254, does not work) and another as a QFE … Read more
It’ll be fine. Here’s a little blurb from Sean Ivey from Microsoft; a pretty smart guy: Ok, as long as we’re talking about domain members, and not domain controllers then for all practical purposes they could be turned off indefinitely with no problem. When you finally turn them back on, the netlogon scavenger will run, … Read more
In AD Users and Computers, inspecting the Object tab of the user account, there is a Created field. You would need to select View menu > Advanced to be able to see the Object tab.
This is a licensing issue. W/o purchasing Terminal Services CALs you’re limited just as you’ve seen to two (2) RDP connections. (You can sort of cheat and get one more session, BTW, by using the “/admin” or “/console” switch on the Terminal Services client.)
Push the 64-bit driver across the network Go to a 64-bit machine on the network and copy the 64-bit driver files to the machine From the 64-bit machine, open Windows Explorer and browse to the 32-bit server Open the Printers dialog seen via Windows Explorer. From the Menu bar, select File > Server Properties, select … Read more
Not really any way to easily tell because it is entirely dependent on your usage and the application. You’re maxing out a database server…how big is the database? What are your transaction stats? The real-world limitations are obvious in your scenario. You’re running for awhile on 6 gig without problem, then it’s swapping and thrashing.Thus … Read more
If what you’re doing right now is working but the issue that it’s taking too much of your time, then scheduled tasks are you friend 🙂 Pop the two versions of the hosts file on the network somewhere (With FB enabled/disabled), and then set up a scheduled task, pushed out by GPO. At lunch time … Read more
Alternatively you can use a junction link to re-point the folder to another drive. On Server 2003 you can use Sysinternal’s Junction” or linkd from the Microsoft resource kit. This might prevent rebuilding it. First create a directory, for example: “d:\Search“. Then run the following command: junction “d:\Search” “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Search”