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The response I have gotten from the Server Core posts has been pretty good, tons of emails and a several comments posted directly to the blog. Seems people are very interested; that is very good IMO. Some of the emails were asking questions like “We keep hearing it is so much lighter and uses less resources, can […]

Just so I don’t forget what I just worked out. To change screen resolution on Longhorn Server Core, modify HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\[GUID]\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\[GUID]\0000\DefaultSettings.XResolution On VMWare Server I am finding 1162×864 works out well. The value for [GUID] will depend on the installation. It seems under \Video\ there are usually multiple GUIDs listed, the first one enumerated usually […]

Have you heard of this thing? Longhorn Server Core that is? Do you know what it is? Do you care? Yes mom, I know you don’t know and you don’t care, you can skip this posting… 🙂 Longhorn Server Core is a new version of Windows Server that looks something like the following image when […]

Ah no. In fact that is absolutely incorrect to the nth decimal place. This has been coming up a lot lately and I have been fielding quite a few questions on it. Plain and simple, if you have a Windows Server 2003 RTM Server and you have not disabled the DNS RPC Management Interface you […]

For those of you who don’t surf my free tools page on a daily basis, you will be happy to know that the world infamous and to date ONLY official tool to manage Password Setting Policy Objects in Longhorn Active Directory is now available as a free download from www.joeware.net. This utility is a smash […]

Just as I pointed out that GPOs aren’t AD in this post – http://blog.joeware.net/2007/04/20/852/ This also goes for DFS, NTFRS, DFSR, Terminal Server Licensing, MSMQ Queues, Exchange, SharePoint, MIIS, ADFS, PKI/CA, any of the techs, really, that MSFT marketing decided to slap “Active Directory” into the name of, and many other technologies that *use* AD but […]

It replicates normally just like any other attribute, it just isn’t updated all of the time. I go bonkers every time I see someone trying to explain it doesn’t replicate all of the time (more accurately people say it only replicates every 14 days). That is because it is completely wrong… It replicates just like any […]

Are you a Windows admin? If yes, this book is for you. If it is too deep for you, you need to step up to a point where it isn’t – security is just that important. I paged through the book on the flight back from the Directory Experts Conference. At first I thought I would be […]

This is getting shouted from the rooftops but Longhorn Beta 3 is now available to be downloaded from Connect. I highly recommend anyone who uses Windows Servers to download and run this so they can a. Learn about the new stuff which is a lot b. Find bugs and report them so you don’t have […]

GPOs are not AD, AD is not GPOs. GPOs are an application that utilize AD, say like Exchange. AD really doesn’t need GPOs but GPOs absolutely can’t without AD because that is where all of the information is. It is sort of like the relationship between AD and ESE… ESE doesn’t need AD but AD sure […]