Hyper-V R2 Live Migration
In this short 3 minute video, I will walk you through a live demonstration of the most anticipated feature in…
Locked out of SQL 2008?
I was recently found myself locked of a demo environment by removing the builtin\administrators group from SQL Server’s sysadmin role…
Recovering deleted objects in AD 2008
In Windows 2008, Microsoft introduced the ability to create and mount AD snapshots online, without having to reboot into Directory…
Understanding the Computer’s Logon and Secure Channel
Every laptop and desktop joined to a domain attempts to change its password with the domain every 30 days. The…
Using repadmin.exe to monitor AD replication
This is really just a ‘re post’ of an excellent blog article demonstrating the features of repadmin. I learned quite…
Antivirus on Hyper-V
I was on a customer call today where they had installed Kapersky anti-virus on their Hyper-V host. The server would…
Moving DHCP Server Scope from 2003 to 2008
Couldn’t be easier! from 2003 server: netsh dhcp server export C:\dhcp.txt all copy dhcp.txt to the 2008 server…
VMMCA 2008 diagnostic tool
This tool can help troubleshooting SCVMM 2008 RTM. “There are many occasions on the public forums where a customer is…
P2V Lesson Learned – Check the License First
What should have been a straight forward P2V (Physical to Virtual Conversion) using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 of…
Reminder: BI User Group meeting August 13th!
Reminder, we are having our next Central Texas Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group meeting a week from today, August 13th,…