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Preparing your Windows 2008 server for Web Service based products

The following document walks you through the steps of verifying the installation pre requisites for products which are based on ASP.NET Web Services on Windows 2008... (By Asaf Ganot)
05/01/2010

Troubleshooting steps for "HTTP 503 - Service Unavailable" error on web applications based on ASP.NET 2.0

The following document walks you through some troubleshooting steps in order to overcome HTTP 503 error when accessing an ASP.NET application over IIS... (By Asaf Ganot)
13/10/2009

Installation check list for .NET 2 Web Service Based Products

The following document walks you through the steps of verifying the installation pre requisites for products which are based on ASP.NET 2 Web Services (By Asaf Ganot)_
12/10/2009

SCOM – Check for missing event

I really tried to use the missing event feature to monitor missing events but couldn’t make it work... (By Snir hoffman)
06/09/2009

Changing Screen Resolution in the Enterprise

One of my clients asked me to change all the workstations resolution to 1024X768 due to a new application that was inserted to the users... (By Snir Hoffman)
26/08/2009

Running Targeted Login Script via GPP

In the current active directory infrastructure, running login script can be done via the user account settings or GPO settings... (new article by Snir Hoffman)
06/08/2009

Introducing Citrix XenServer 5.5

I've been working with XenServer 5.0 for some time, so I decided to check the new features of XenServer 5.5, here goes:
28/07/2009

Deleting Hotfix Uninstall Directories

Most of us (Sys Admins) save space on our company workstations by deleting the TEMP folder during login, part of you even clear the recycle bin and IE temp folder...
(By Snir Hoffman)
21/07/2009

How to Install DWG 2009 Viewer on Terminal Server

DWG 2009 Viewer is one of the most popular applications for viewing AutoCAD files; however, this application is not supported on terminal server environments. When trying to run the DWG application as a regular user on TS 2003 a number of frustrating security and MSI issues may arise... (By Youda Marziano)

14/07/2009

Troubleshooting windows startup times and login issues (Slow Startup, Slow Login, GPO not applied...)

A few days ago one of my customers complained that the boot time on several Windows XP workstations is very slow (10-15 minutes). Simple troubleshooting didn’t reveal anything so I enabled netlogon logging and started analyzing the log file... (By Snir Hoffman)
07/07/2009

Configuring Mandatory Profiles on Windows 2008 TS

Super-mandatory user profiles are similar to normal mandatory profiles, with the exception that users who have super- mandatory profiles cannot log on when the server that stores the mandatory profile is unavailable. Users with normal mandatory profiles can log on with ... (By Youda Marziano)
30/06/2009

How to Implement KMS (Key Management Services)

KMS is Microsoft’s enterprise installation key management mechanism for Vista and Windows 2008...(By Snir Hoffman)
24/06/2009

How to Configure accounts with 'logon as a service' privileges

A simple way to configure 'logon as a batch' or 'as a service' privileges...
18/06/2009

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

The key deliverables that terminal services provides are saving
the need to upgrade end stations, centralized management and ability
to connect branches using narrow band lines... (By Sharon Harris)
16/03/2009

PowerShell+Gui=PowerGui

As promised, I'm back with a second article from the PowerShell series, but this time, with a pleasant novelty, PowerGui.
Although I am fully well aware that it's not too popular in the System world... (By Sharon Harris)
02/02/2009

How to force clients to connect to an available DC when one of the DCs is down

Most organizations implement at least two Active Directory Domain Controllers for redundancy reasons. However, when one of the Domain Controllers fails, many applications on client machines still tries to contact the failed DC and fail with all kind of errors...(By Asaf Ganot)
25/01/2009

Active Directory Migration with ADMT – The extra mile

If you ever had the chance to perform domain migration using Microsoft's ADMT, you probably found that it is a great tool, but it misses some functionality.
The extra mile can be achieved with some scripting. However, certain tasks that are often needed before or after the migration are pretty complicated ...(By Asaf Ganot)
17/01/2009

A cool way to block internet access to certain users / machines

As a system administrator, you might find it useful to block internet access for certain users and / or machine, but in many cases, you do want to allow access to several specific web sites.
This article shows an alternative way of doing it without using ISA, Firewall applications, IPSec and other complex solutions...(By Asaf Ganot)
12/01/2009

Exploring Registry with PowerShell

A lot has been said about PowerShell since early 2007 when the Exchange server
was launched, and even then we saw the strong capabilities of Microsoft’s new Shell environment. efore I start reviewing the capabilities of the environment, I wish to explain, in a few sentences, the environment and command structure... (By Sharon Harris)
01/12/2008

Supporting users on a Group Policy restricted environment

Most Server Based Computing (SBC) farms such as Terminal Server and Citrix farms are applied with a well restricted Group Policy infrastructure which keeps users focusing on their work rather than downloading files from the internet, playing solitaire or playing with the Control Panel settings. Also, there are also organizations which apply strict policy settings on user's workstations ...(By Asaf Ganot)
27/08/2008
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SCOM – Check for missing event
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06/09/2009
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