In Windows 2008, there is a nifty looking tool for printer management and migration. It looks very good for daily operations, using it for migration, is well not so good. You can add all your Windows 2003 and later print…
Outlook prompts for password after inactivity.
Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 prompts for password after long period of inactivity.
Classic Event Viewer
Windows 7 and 2008 has a new style of Event Viewer with the action pane. Strangely they still called it MMC 3.0 since it is a departure from the 2 panel MMC to the 3 panel MMC. If you prefer…
SID
SID are used to uniquely identify each object in the Windows world . An analogy will be social security numbers or NRIC number. I was very surprised when I heard that the famous sysinternal tool, newsid has ben depreciated. Afterall…
SMS 2003 and Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU)
Microsoft Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates and SMS 2003.
System Center Operations Manager 2007
I have used the grandfather of this application when it was called Microsoft Operation Manager. It can be annoying, sending out alerts after another for the most mundane to weird situations. eg DAC component out of date, high memory usage. etc
To Err is divine
Using Err Tool to decode hex codes.
How to shutdown lots of servers.
Rebooting or shutting down lots of servers.
Group Policy Management
How to save group policies
Forcing disabled user to logoff
Forcing disabled user to logon.