Michael Simmons

In this post, Michael Simmons explains FSMO Roles in Active Directory 2008. Michael covers all 5 roles: Schema Master, Domain Naming Master, Infrastructure Master, Relative ID Master and Primary Domain Controller Emulator. Together, these FSMO Roles help prevent conflicts when making changes within the traditional multi-master model.

In Part 2 of his series on Crash Dump Analysis, Michael Simmons discusses the memory dump files themselves. Michael explains which type of memory dump is best for your situation and how to make sure you can find them after they are saved.

Have you ever needed to work on a computer but couldn’t because the password was lost? Instead of spending time trying to guess what the password is or tracking it down from an old employee, sometimes it’s better to just reset the password. In this post, Michael Simmons covers 4 great password reset utilities that will get you into the locked out machine in no time.

In today’s post, Michael Simmons talks about one of our least favorite Windows screens: The Blue Screen of Death. In part 1 (of 2), Simmons covers why these errors generally happen, what they tell us (specifically, the crash dump that they produce) and how you can begin to troubleshoot the hardware or software that is crashing the system.