TIP:Delegate Control to Users to Work with GPOs

Delegate Control to Users to Work with GPOs

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You can allow a nonadministrative user or a group (including users and groups from other domains) to work with a domain, site, or OU GPO by granting one of three specific permissions:

Hyper-V Cloud

Hyper-V Cloud

blauge

8 Nov 2010 10:21 PM

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To help you deploy commercial private and public clouds based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, System Center, and related products, Microsoft offers a set of programs and initiatives called Hyper-V Cloud. These programs can help you:

Build your own private cloud with help from the Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides and Hyper-V Cloud partners.

TechEd 2010: Attack and Defence: Authentication and Passwords!

TechEd 2010: Attack and Defence: Authentication and Passwords!

PTSAustria PTSAustria

9 Nov 2010 4:03 AM November 9, 2010 4:03 AM

Markus Murray – mein absoluter Lieblingsspeaker auf der TechEd ! Mark Murray - my favorite speaker at TechEd!
Wahrscheinlich fürcht ich mich gleich wieder ;) Probably I fear me again;)

P2V fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied

P2V fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied

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Symptom

When using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform a Physical-to-Virtual conversion (P2V), the following error message appears during the Scan System phase.
Error (2910)
VMM does not have appropriate permissions

Reading LDAP SSL Network Traffic with NetMon 3.4 and NMDecrypt

Reading LDAP SSL Network Traffic with NetMon 3.4 and NMDecrypt

 

Hi folks, Ned here again. Today I show you how to decrypt LDAP traffic protected by SSL by using Network Monitor and its handy add-on NetMon Decryption Expert. This is useful when you need to see what an application is asking your domain controllers, especially when that app has lousy logging. Since the traffic is all encrypted on the wire, ordinary network captures are useless.
I’m not going to explain LDAP and SSL as we already have some great articles by James, Mike, Rob, Randy, and Dave here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/tags/ldap/

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory–Recycle Bin

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory–Recycle Bin

With  Recycle Bin now available I may now be able to get a job in Active Directory, as it provides recovery form the sort of finger trouble I occasionally suffer from.  To use it you need to turn on the feature and this ironically cannot be undone, as it changes the way deletes are handled from this

IIS Application Pool Tracking

Tip 40: IIS Application Pool Tracking

This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip.
When strange things happen to IIS application pools I am reminded of the old public service announcement, “Do you know where your children are?” Well, do you know what your application pools are doing? When was the last time one restarted? What is the history of restarts? If you cannot answer these questions read ahead.
To find out when an application pool has started or how long it has been running use Process Explorer to view the time the application pool process started.

How to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

How to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

 

Just a heads up on a new KB article we published on how to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.  If you do any kind of admin work with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 you'll want to add this to your favorites.
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Symptoms

The cluster status displayed in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Administrator's Console may change from "OK" to "over-committed" after a cluster refresh operation completes.
Note : The host status values do not change in the VMM Administrator Console until the VMM server performs a host refresh, which runs automatically every 30 minutes. You can run a refresh on demand by right-clicking the host and then clicking Refresh.

Enhanced Event Viewer -

Enhanced Event Viewer -

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sateesh-arveti/archive/2010/11/22/enhanced-event-viewer.aspx

Windows provides a nice tool for viewing event logs of our machine. This tool called as Event Viewer is having lot of features to browse through our event logs. Even though, it is a very useful tool to browse our event log, but it does not provide certain features like searching and auto-show up of new events etc. So, I thought of doing an application that makes our event log browsing faster and much easier. I will explain the features provided by it.
Features provided by this Viewer:
•  Easy to navigate among the Logs.
• Easy to filter events.
•Easy to do Search.
•Click away to access it.
•Connect to remote machine's Event Log.
•Listener to show new event entry automatically.
•Better User Experience and lot more.

Download Enhanced Event Viewer -
http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-PostAttachments/00-03-37-01-91/EnhancedEventViewer.zip

Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts

Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts


http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/11/23/use-powershell-to-create-local-user-accounts.aspx