Mirrored posts to my old blog
For a while I have been posting at http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/guyt/, but it seams that I have managed to stumple upon some bug and some of my posts are not geting indexed by search engines. As...
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XP as Domain Controller ?
Well… Not really. But here is a nice tidbit: 1) Create a share called SYSVOL on an XP box 2) Try to unshare the directory you shared as SYSVOL. 3) You will get a nice warning stating: "This share is...
View ArticlePerformance based Active Directory MCP exams
Looks like MS are going in the right direction (finally!) – they are piloting a performance based AD exam that should replace the current multiple-choice tests. For a long time I have been bashing...
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Restoring Exchange 2003 mailbox contents with Exmerge after moving the...
Imagine the following scenario: You perform a full backup of mailbox store on Exchange 2003. You move a mailboxe from the backed-up store to an Exchange 2007 server. You try to leverage the Recovery...
View ArticleExecuting a set of commands against all DCs in the forest
Funny how things turn out. I was visiting today a customer which is undergoing a process of upgrading his Domain Controllers to W2K3 R2 and I was asked to help them get a report of OS version on all...
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ADRestore.NET rewrite
Last month I had couple of clients that needed to restore accidentally deleted user and computer account. Though there is a command line version of tombstone reanimation tool called adrestore, the...
View ArticleCoreConfigurator clarifications
As some of you have noticed, I have removed the recent posts about CoreConfigurator and the download of the tool is not working anymore. This is not a temporary hiccup and the reason I have not put a...
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Here goes my MVP title
No no… It's not that I wasn't re-awarded (actually I was in April – for the 3rd time), it's not that I decided to abandon the community and from some obscure reason declined the MVP award ;). Still...
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Hotfix Id – what does this GUID stand for ?
I know… I know… It’s been a while since I have posted anything on this blog – I could point the finger to various reasons, but it wouldn’t be totally true – the thing is that I just took a short break...
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Moving to Technet blogs
Well, the title says it all. I’m back blogging and this time as part of our local Israel Platforms PFE Team over here at Microsoft Israel. So drop in to say hi and stay tuned for great technical info...
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