Windows: Client, service, and program incompatibilities that may occur when you modify security settings and user rights assignments

Here is the reference MS article about the impact of Some well-known User Rights or Security options (gpedit.msc, GPO) on Windows infrastructure: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823659

How to disable computer account passord ?

  how to disable computer account password: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/john_daskalakis/archive/2010/02/01/9956266.aspx

Resources for MS licensing

Here are a collection of web resources about  MS nightmare licensing stuff – enjoy! and good luck: M365 licensing maps: https://m365maps.com/ MS Licensing documents: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/volume-licensing-briefs.aspx#tab=1 MS Licensing FAQ: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-faq.aspx MS RDS licensing: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-rds.aspx

DNS Client Configuration for Windows DNS Servers

Configuration of the DNS client settings on DNS-enabled Domain Controllers: In Windows 2000, there were cases where if a server were configured to register to itself and only itself, it could in certain cases become a replication island. This means that the only DCs it knows about is itself and any changes made on that

Office 2010 and Volume Activation

Office 2010 recently hit the RTM milestone and is now available for download via a couple of different channels.  For admins looking at deploying it, one of the biggest changes they will see relates to license keys & activation.  For previous office deployments, enterprises would establish a volume license agreement with Microsoft and then they

How Do I delete registry key in Powershell ?

For instance, I have the following  key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME Under that I  have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME\.doc HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME\.xls HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME\.vbs HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME\.html HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME\CLSID The CLSID has  subkeys. The objective is to delete all the subkeys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME \ACME\ except HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ACME\CLSID and its subkeys. I am trying to be as clear as possible. First to see what would be done with the

How Do I Search the Registry for a Value in PowerShell?

The question came up recently in an internal discussion list, “How do I search the Registry for a value in PowerShell?” In the FileSystem, we have the select-string cmdlet to do the hard work for you.  We don’t have the equivalent yet for other stores, so unfortunately the answer is to write ‘grep’ from scratch. 

Registry Find and Replace

Registry Find and replace Using free tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/regedt33/ Using PowerShell: I recently encountered a server where SQL Server had somehow been installed to the admin user’s mapped U: drive instead of drive C:. As a result all SQL file paths in the registry referred to “U:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\…” but for most users (including the

Create a WMI filter for your GPO to select Server or Client system

Whether you create a new policy or you have an existing GPO, you can always create or link an existing WMI filter to that policy. A WMI filter, as the word “filter” indicates, is a constraint applied to a system or a group of systems/users in an Organizational Unit OU or at the domain level

Remotely managing your Server Core using SSH

Since Microsoft has been criticized by Linux adepts for its inability to modularize Windows like Linux and Server Core installations are pretty much the first incarnation of Microsofts vision in this territory, let’s go a little further into uncharted territory and start managing Server Core using PuTTY over SSH. SSH is the default management method