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…

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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:…

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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…

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Read Only Domain Controller

With Windows Server 2008, there is the option to promote a member server to a RDOC, or Read Only Domain Controller.  Just as the name suggests, it is a domain controller that is non-writable; read-only copy.  The purpose of a…

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MCTS: Windows Server 2008 AD Configuration

Today I passed Microsoft test 70-640: Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring.   This test covers quite a large spectrum of information, including: DNS Multi-Site Domains (Sites and Services) Group Policies Auditing Federation Services Rights Management Services Cert Services Windows Backup Authorative…

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