Microsoft
Changing Local Admin Passwords on the network
Every so often, it’s good practice to change passwords. I think that everyone it IT is aware of that. One of the most overlooked passwords is the local Administrator’s password on every machine on the network. Sure, your user’s are required to change theirs every 90 days, and you change your domain Administrator’s password at [...]
Tags: Active Directory, Microsoft, Password, Scripts
Posted in Active Directory | 2 Comments »
Exchange 2010 Distribution Group Management
One of the things I like about Exchange distribution groups is that they can be manged by the list’s owner, taking a bit of work off the IT department, and allowing managers to maintain their department groups. However, the process is slightly different for Exchange 2010. In Exchange 2010, the permission to manage the lists [...]
Tags: Distribution Group, Exchange, Microsoft, RBAC
Posted in Exchange | 9 Comments »
MCITP: Server Administrator
Today I took 70-646, Windows Server 2008: Server Administrator and PASSED! I am now an Microsoft Certified IT Professional, Server Administrator. I liked this last test in the bunch. Instead of just 50 multiple choice questions, it was 22, and had 5 case studies. The case studies were what I liked. They gave you a [...]
Tags: 2008 Server, 70-646, Certification, Microsoft
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Re-register Microsoft VSS – Failed Backups
Recently, I had a Windows 2008 R2 server, running Backup Exec, that was constantly failing during snapshot processing backing up the system state. The backups would show the following error: AOFO: Initialization failure on: “System$State”. Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). V-79-10000-11226 – VSS Snapshot error. The Microsoft Volume Shadow [...]
Tags: 2008 Server, Backup Exec, Microsoft, VSS
Posted in Backups | 1 Comment »
What is AdminSDHolder?
AdminSDHolder is a container inside active directory that maintains a master list of permissions for objects that are members of privileged groups in active directory. Below are some of the groups: Administrators Domain Admins Enterprise Admins Schema Admins Domain Controllers Server Operators etc. Basically, every hour, windows will compare the security permissions of an account [...]
Tags: Active Directory, Blackberry, Exchange, Microsoft
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