Mark Minasi's Windows Tech Page:
List of Past Articles
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- Configuring multiple hard drives on domain controllers
- Mastering Windows 2000 Server, Second edition ? Errata
- Understanding W2K time service manually
- Configuring Single Instance Store (SIS) for non-RIS uses
- Overview of W2K Active Directory Migration Tool
- Sysprep 1.1
- Setting up up W2K pro's "secret remote control tool"
(Netmeeting 3.0)
- Kill any process with AT & Task Manager
- Explaining dynamic vs basic disks(?Should your system disk
be dynamic?)
- W2k computer names cannot be longer than 63 characters
- Keystroke that forces W2K to blue screen
- Better HTML font control when viewing web sites with
Netscape under Linux
- Feature Article: RIS Tricks: scripting, offering Service
pack-ed images, rolling out servers and more
- Dynamic DNS deregistration errors in a single-DC AD
environment
- If Outlook crashes, try SCANPST.exe
- Disabling Windows File Protection
- Using $OEM$ features in RIS
- Defining & changing FSMO roles
- DNS client cache & negative cache
- When do W2K clients dynamically re-register with DNS
- Enabling post-W2K NIC drivers with RIS
- Running Perl CGI scripts on a W2K IIS server
- Installing Perl
- Installing Perl scripts (step by step instructions)
- TAR vs ZIP (Unix vs NT)
- Upgrading NT to W2K ( in-place versus clean and pristine)
- Removing accessories via Control Panel in W2K
- Setting up a test AD Domain
- Troubleshooting AD/DNS interaction
- Kiosk mode for IE
- Building an Ethernet loopback cable
- Enabling ?Passwords must meet complexity requirements?
- After disabling NetBIOS, which NET commands still work
- Configuring who can ?Log on Locally? to a DC
- Defining & configuring ?map root? on 9x or NT clients
- Why does my W2K box periodically dial-up the Internet?
- How to keep an Ethernet card ?awake? on W2K
- Understanding memory better, parity vs Error Correcting Code
(ECC)
- Understanding NetBIOS domain names versus DNS-like domain
names
- Customizing NETDIAG output
- Understanding SID History and Pruning
- What XP's NAT-Traversal does
- How XP's Windows Product Activation works
- System policies versus group policies in a mixed 2K/NT DC
world
- Netlogon replication behavior in mixed 2K/NT domains
- Thoughts on Code Red
- Configuring one Web server to allow remote control of many
systems
- Allowing non-domain admins to connect to a W2k Server via TS
- Configuring NT as a secondary DNS server in an AD environment
- How to synchronize time in W2K using a non-Microsoft time
server
- How to change a password from the command line
- Beware of changing NTFS permissions on NT remotely from W2K
- Configuring Outlook to NOT respond to Receipt Requests
- Define VBS and Java Script and more, not to execute by
default
- Configuring and troubleshooting Indexing Server
- Building and troubleshooting Web-based query pages
- Working with mirrored boot disks
- Understanding boot.ini ARC paths
- Creating a boot disk for EIDE & SCSI drives
- Understanding IPsec
- How to set up XP Pro as a file server
- Notes on XP Pro's firewall
- Enabling XP Pro?s Remote Desktop via the Web
- Creating a ?drop box? via FTP
- Configuring when secondary DNS zones transfer from their
master
- Configuring & troubleshooting FireWire XP/W2K
- After joining a domain ?Fast User Switching? stops working
- Shutting down systems from a command line and remotely
- How to deploy an XP image via W2K RIS
- How to script your printer installations
- If you enable XP's firewall, PING doesn't work any more
- Where to find the MS-DOS client for MS networks
- Understanding the basics of wireless networking
- Securing your wireless network
- Sharing a wireless Internet connection (D-Link 713P)
- Understanding "cable select" on EIDE drives
- More on wireless
- Killing XP?s pop-up balloons
- Reader suggestion on creating MS-DOS network bootable floppies
- How to delete undelete-able directories on hacked FTP sites
- Troubleshooting AD logon failures with DNS
- How to stop your DCs from trying to access their floppy every
five minutes
- More on deleting undelete-able directories on hacked FTP sites
- Configure your PDC emulator to sync time with National
Institute of Standards and Technology
- Software Update Services Overview
- Use XP?s new Netstat and Tasklist commands
- How to log onto the Administrator account in XP workgroups
- How many megapixels do you need for digital imaging
- How to create VCD?s -- and why to!
- Introducing VMWare: why, how, and some tricks
- You can't use Server 2000 as a BDC in an NT 4 domain
- Understanding firewire and laptops (6 pins vs 4)
- Edit local policies remotely using gpedit.msc
- Who is the Prisoner at prisoner.iana.org?
- Up-rooting a "private root" DNS server created by the DNS
wizard
- Internal DNS servers don't need a forwarder
- You may have to format your CF cards as FAT16
- Understanding the effects of spanning tree algorithm on RIS
- Troubleshooting binding order for multi-homed machines
- Hardening systems by disabling unnecessary services
- Roll out SP?s via GPO?s
- Learn the command-line tools via ntcmds.chm
- Set your cmd prompt to always open to C:\>
- Change AD passwords wrong and you might get locked out
- Deleting print jobs that stay in the queue even after printing
Completely
- Troubleshooting three printing problems
- Editing local group policies with gpedit
- Creating custom system policies
- Example: forcing a blue screen on W2K or XP
- Example: controlling the default directory in a command prompt
- Example: setting profile logging
- Configuring IP from the command line using netsh
- Disabling the ?Shutdown Event Tracker? ("why do you want to
shut down 2003?")
- Applying security templates remotely via EXEC.VBS
- Troubleshooting why your Web site shows up as an IP address,
not a site name
- Avoid RIS on multi-homed systems
- Setting up DNS so AD works great: the complete cookbook
- More on DNS: avoiding "Island DNS"
- Finding "search AD" on 2000, XP and 2003
- Troubleshooting NTBackup not recognizing a tape during
restores
- Fixing "IE cannot save .jpg or .gif format images"
- Fixing Media Player when it only plays black & white
- Convert a user's SID to their friendly name
- How to reset a system's local group machine policies to "fresh
out of the box"
- Disabling LM hashes and LM & NTLM authentication -- and
why
- Stop Outlook & OE from blocking attachments
- You must create separate AD backups for each DC
- More on disabling LM & NTLM
- Fixing Time Synchronization Problems
- Server 2003 book errata
- Slipstreaming SP?s into I386 is easier now
- Securing W2K Servers to resemble 2003
- Troubleshooting SUS via BitsAdmin.exe
- Troubleshooting RIS for PXE boot failures
- Know how much power your laptop/desktop is using
- Understanding null sessions/anonymous logons
- Free RAM tester from Microsoft
- A DNS mystery: "it works everyone but Microsoft and
Yahoo..."
- AD does not like single-part DNS names
- Everything you ever needed to know about Software Update
Service
- Patch for ASN problems
- FireWire 800
- Simplifying in-place upgrades using the NT4Emulator Registry
setting
- XP Service Pack 2 highlights, tips and tricks
- Step by step: how to control ActiveX installs with SP2
- How to (and why to) set 15-character minimum password lengths
- Speed up your TCP stack by changing the TCPWindowSize
- 2003's Subinacl doesn't work, download a newer one
- Defining who can read the Security Log in 2003
- Decoding Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL)
strings
- How to rename someone in AD
- What's "discretionary" about DACLs?
- AD names part 2: renaming an Exchange 2003 mailbox
- Correction: CN=Common Name
- HOSTS file beats DNS cache
- Understand how SMB Signing works
- AD names part 3: more on renaming Exchange mailboxes
- Fixing your IP stack when anti-spyware apps break it
- Understanding Log Parser, a tool you must learn
- The Accidental DBA: Everything You NEED To Know About
MSDE
- Installing Web Data Administrator, the Poor Man's Enterprise
Manager
- Can't Get Setup To Format Your Disk? Use Recovery Console
- Auditusr.exe: Fine-Tuned Security Logs
- Using Security Templates? Use /generaterollback
- The Accidental DBA Part 2: Everything You Need To Know About
SQL Server 2005 Express
- Server x64 won't run GPMC
- 2003's Time Service Requires rebooting upon change
- ISO Recorder: great free ISO/CD tool
- Understanding Sender Policy Framework (SPF) -- so AOL gets
your mail
- Using w32tm instead of NET TIME
- More questions, answers and information about Sender Policy
Framework
- Feature Article: How To Troubleshoot Any Network Problem
- Hiding folders with SP1's "Access-Based Enumeration"
- Editorial: A Geek Goes To Redmond
- Five interesting things about Vista that most folks don't know
- Solving the mystery of flaky DCPROMOs and group
policies: "Kerberos Token Bloat"
- Using SP1's new DCDIAG DNS test features
- Introducing my chml utility
- Vista Ships
- Solving Some "Vysteries"
- BitLocker/AD Tools Ship
- Downloading, Installing and Configuring Windows PE
- Using Vista Answer Files to do Hands-Off Vista Installs
- Imaging Comes to Microsoft: Working with ImageX and Windows
Image Files
- Using and Automating Vista's Sysprep
- Vista Tips,Tricks, Problems and Solutions
- In-Depth Details on CompletePC Backup
- Secrets of Getting Hotfixes Onto Windows Image Files Quickly
- Using CompletePC Backup to perform a drive transplant
- Hmmm... Vista's got some odd incompatibilities after all!
- FRS or DFS-R? Solving a DFS Mystery
- A Quick Look at Your Vista SP1 Install Options
- Understanding Vista and 2008's New TCP Windows Sizing Methods
- How Windows Knows that a File Is from the Internet:
Manipulating Alternate Data Streams
- The DNS CLI Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need to Know to
Administer DNS from the Command Line
- Solving a Class of Vista Compatibility Issues
- Don Jones Presents "Your IT Resume in 2018"
- You Can Sysprep More Than Three Times in Vista!
- Getting Those Monthly Hotfixes on Your Vista/2008 Images Offline
Using Pkgmgr
- Should You Upgrade to Server 2008? (Part 1)
- Should You Upgrade to Server 2008? (Part 2)
- How I Saved the World from the F1MAN113 Worm
- Solving Windows' "I Only Want SIGNED Drivers!" Tantrums
- Two Vysteries Solved: WPD failure and A Mysterious Lockup
- Windows 7 -- To Adopt or Not to Adopt, Part 1
- Windows 7 -- To Adopt or Not to Adopt, Part 2
- Making Win 7 Use the Drivers that It Doesn't Think It Can Use
- Need to Mount an ISO from Vista or Win 7 ? Even 64-Bit ? Use
Virtual Clone Drive (free)
- Killer Bees (SMBs, that is) On the Way
- Block Bad Guys With R2's Nifty New DHCP MAC Address Filtering
Tool
- Playing with the "God Mode" Easter Egg
- Tweaking WinPE and More on God Mode
- Hating IE8 a Bit Less (yes, it's out of order, it's a long
story... but, with hope, a useful article!)
- Using R2's New AD Cmdlets, Without R2
- Getting Started With AD Queries
- Easy XP-to-Win 7 Migration with MDT, Step by Step
- Changing Windows 7's "Default User" Profile... And a Few
Sysprep Tricks
- Answer File Cleanup: How to Keep Users From Seeing Passwords
in Your XML Setup Files
- Choose Your Deployment Tools Wisely!
- Cracking the Code on Windows Search
- Is the Kindle 3 Worth the Upgrade? (this newsletter got lost
in the shuffle and didn't have a table of contents entry, hence
its out-of-order date.)
- Getting and Using DiG, a Great DNS Troubleshooter That Runs
Rings Around NSLOOKUP
- Figuring Out How To Do Things in Powershell Quickly
- Installing Windows 8 Beta Faster with a USB Stick
- Getting Good Files Off Bad Drives Quickly with Robocopy
- Prepping for your First 2008/2008R2 DC, Part One
- Sysvol SHAKEDOWN: Prepping for your First 2008/2008R2 DC, Part
Two
- Understanding Server 2012's New Pricing
- Learning to Love (or At Least Not Hate) Server 2012's New UI
- Eight Things to Like in Server "8"
- IPConfig Reimagined: Building a Simple PowerShell Tool
- 28 Days Under the Surface: Running Windows RT on Microsoft's
New Tablet
- Changing How Often Office 365 Makes You Change Your Password
- Understanding (and Maybe Killing) the ISATAP, Teredo, and 6to4
"Imaginary" NICs
- Solving the "How Do I Change My Firewall Profile in Windows
8?" Puzzle
- Why Does CHKDSK Want to Kill My Server?
- CHKDSK 2012: Fear CHKDSK No More!
- What, More Windows? A Look at Server 2012R2 and Windows 8.1, Part 1
- Shiny New Boots: What You Need to Know About UEFI and Secure Boot
And a few more... we'll get this finished soon!
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