Articles Archive for February 2011
Rumor has it that Microsoft is planning to do away with Ntdsutil.exe, a tool that has provided command-line access to a variety of Active Directory functions since Windows 2000. Ntdsutil has been invaluable throughout my …
Microsoft has issued an advisory alerting customers to a security update that fixes a vulnerability across all of its antimalware products, including Security Essentials and its Forefront enterprise endpoint suite.
The software glitch is located in …
Microsoft has just released the final version of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7, but should you drop everything and go through the process of installing it? Where can you get it? We’ve got the …
One of the primary reasons for deploying a Web proxy server is to reduce bandwidth utilization to the Internet. Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 provides very granular control over cache file management as …
Both Performance Monitor and SQL Server Profiler provide valuable information about your server. However, if you combine the data from the two sources, then this correlated information can help find some of the subtler bugs. …
The free tool SQL Scripts Manager (SSM) does much more than just run SQL Scripts. It will also run IronPython and PowerShell scripts. By using PowerShell, you’ll be able to run SMO for a wide …
Windows Azure now includes a Virtual Machine role that allows organizations to host their own virtual machines in the cloud.
Microsoft introduced this role as a way to ease the migration of applications to cloud computing. …
The process of importing multiple users’ PST files into Exchange 2010 is not as simple as perhaps you might expect, and certainly not as simple is probably should be, given how common this particular task …
An Overview of Active Directory Replication
Active Directory is a distributed multimaster replicated database. All domain controllers host a full replica of the domain information for its own domain. Domain controllers in Windows 2000 and Windows …
It is nothing really new that indexes have their right to exist in SQL Server. It is also nothing really new, that these indexes need to be maintained every now and then, even though this …
