October 2008 – Hyper-V and SCVMM Blog

Tip – DNS Client Behavior in Windows Vista and Server 2008

Microsoft developers have changed the functionality of many of Windows’ components. DNS is one of them. A DNS client component running on a Vista computer behaves differently than it did in previous versions of Windows.

This tip explains the behavior of the DNS client component in Windows Vista for DNS queries and registrations.

Tip – A Quick Tip To Make Sure FRS Is Working In A Domain

This article explains a small mechanism you can use to make sure FRS is working.

FRS (File Replication Service) is used to replicate Scripts and Group Policy in Active Directory. FRS is dependent on Active Directory Connection Objects

Tip – Remote Control in Windows Server 2008

Microsoft developers have introduced a remote administration tools pack, which ships with Windows Server 2008 CD. The feature, called RSAT – Remote Server Administration Tools,

To music lovers…

Guys, I’m great fan of Mohd. Rafi. (a great playback singer in India – he is no more with us :(….). These days I have been very busy singing couple of his songs. You can find the songs sung by me at the following URL:

http://www.esnips.com/web/nratawasStuff

🙂 I really love his voice, his style of singing and versatility.

Tip – A Quick Tip To Update Group Policy Settings On Remote Computers

This article explains a single command you can use to update the Group Policy settings on remote computers. Please note this applies to Windows 2000 Computers only

Tip – Background Zone Loading, New Functionality in Win Server 2008 DNS

Microsoft has changed the way DNS loads zone data into memory. Sometimes the DNS server can take an hour or more to load the data with extremely large zone data stored in the Active Directory Services. The result is that the DNS server is unable to serve the client’s requests in a timely fashion.

Tip – How To Take System State Backup In Server Core

There is no GUI tool available in Windows Server 2008 Server Core edition to take the System State backup. You need to depend

Inside Exchange Cluster Setup and Troubleshooting Tips (Part 6)

Hopefully, this is the last part of the article series I have written for Exchange Server Setup.

In the 6th and final part of this article series we look into the actual creation of Exchange Cluster Resources. We also go through the different setup log files and summarize the type of information available from here.

Creating Exchange Resources Types and Registering with the Cluster Service

After setup processes all INS files, ScSetupExchangeVirtualServer is executed. This function is responsible to create all the Exchange Resources in the cluster. Let me tell you one thing, this function is completely dependent on the CLUSTER_SERVER.INS file. Only if setup executes CLUSTER_SERVER.INS successfully can Exchange 2007/2003 resources be created. The reason is simple…..

All the parts of this article series can be found at here:

Part 1
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=116&t=6

Part 2
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=117

Part 3
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=118

Part 4
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=119

Part 5
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=121

Part 6
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=122

Tip – Block Write Access To Run and RunOnce Registry Entries – Rectified.

Blocking write access to Run and RunOnce registry entries for malware or other unwanted programs running in the system.

Your system becomes unstable because of the malware programs running in the background. You identify these programs and kill them in the Task Manager but these programs will re-appear in the Task Manager after you reboot the system. This is because these programs will run again from the below mentioned registry keys:

Tip – Block Write Access To Run and RunOnce Registry Entries.

Blocking write access to Run and RunOnce registry entries for malware or other unwanted programs running in the system.