I’ll review the basic steps on creating a SharePoint custom event handler. You begin by opening up Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and create a new class project. Reference the Microsoft.SharePoint assembly and then rename the default.cs class to the name that you want to give to your event handler. Also, remember to add your using…
In this short 3 minute video, I will walk you through a live demonstration of the most anticipated feature in Hyper-V – "Live Migration."
I was recently found myself locked of a demo environment by removing the builtin\administrators group from SQL Server’s sysadmin role – a good practice by the way. I needed to get into SQL Management Studio. This particular installation of SQL 2008 was running under the localsystem account. Using PSEXEC from sysinternals, I was able to…
In Windows 2008, Microsoft introduced the ability to create and mount AD snapshots online, without having to reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM). By exposing an AD Snapshot, you can check to see if the backup set contains the deleted object in question. I also show a technique of using a 3rd party tool…
Every laptop and desktop joined to a domain attempts to change its password with the domain every 30 days. The Netlogon service uses the local security authority (LSA) secret to logon to the domain, which establishes a secure channel with a domain controller using RPC. If a consultant’s laptop has been off the domain for…
This is really just a ‘re post’ of an excellent blog article demonstrating the features of repadmin. I learned quite a bit from reading this and hopefully this will benefit other AD Administrators out there. I like the summary command: Repadmin /replsummary * And /syncall with the /A(ll partitions) P(ush) e(nterprise, cross sites) d(istinguished names)…
Couldn’t be easier! from 2003 server: netsh dhcp server export C:\dhcp.txt all copy dhcp.txt to the 2008 server (where the DHCP role was installed and authorized) netsh dhcp server import c:\dhcpdatabase.txt all Done! Wow! Remember when this used to be a pain? http://blogs.technet.com/networking/archive/2008/06/27/steps-to-move-a-dhcp-database-from-a-windows-server-2003-or-2008-to-another-windows-server-2008-machine.aspx
I was on a customer call today where they had installed Kapersky anti-virus on their Hyper-V host. The server would no longer boot up. After reviewing KB 961804 I recommended that the customer add the proper exclusions or uninstall Kapersky. To complicate matters, it was not possible to uninstall the product from Add/Remove programs because…
This tool can help troubleshooting SCVMM 2008 RTM. “There are many occasions on the public forums where a customer is struggling with a commonly known issue on VMM 2008 RTM. For those commonly known issues we have bundled those up into a tool called the Virtual Machine Management Configuration Analyzer. This tool enables customers to…
What should have been a straight forward P2V (Physical to Virtual Conversion) using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 of a Windows 2003 system to a Hyper-V host turned about to be a lot more difficult because the operating system was installed with OEM media & product key. This was a problem because after the…
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