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In this post, Daniel Petri shows how to determine which attributes will be saved for a deleted object. To perform the steps in this article, you must be a member of the Schema Admins group, and have network connectivity with the DC that holds the Schema Master FSMO role.

In the conclusion of this two-part video post, seasoned Cisco professional and CCIE Joe Rinehart takes you through step-by-step how to troubleshoot VLAN and switch problems, specifically a “No Connectivity” issue.

In part 1 of this series, Jeff Hicks shows you how to take advantage of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and how to use it as a database you can query, without a single bit of scripting or using a PowerShell command.

Sean Wilkins explains how to implement a first-hop redundancy protocol, using Cisco’s Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP). This article gives an overview of these protocols and describes how they differ.

If you have ever wondered where you can find an object that was deleted from the Archive Directory or if you ever wanted to see the details of your lost objects, this post by Daniel Petri can help you. With these instructions, you will have the ability to recover deleted objects.

As fast as hard drive capacities grow, so does the amount of data users expect to store on them. In this post, storage expert Tom Finnis shows how to re-size existing drives in Windows, when what may have seemed like plenty of storage when you first installed a Windows VM is now not enough.

In Part 1 of this two-part video post, seasoned Cisco professional Joe Rinehart takes you through step-by-step how to troubleshoot VLAN and switch problems. He discusses common general switch issues, VLAN related issues, and spanning-tree issues, as well as VLAN/switch troubleshooting techniques.

Are you having issues figuring out what service packs you have installed on your device? Jeff Hicks show you how to gather this info using the command line tool, WMIC.EXE, as well as by using Windows PowerShell.

Networking Consultant Sean Wilkins takes a look at the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), how its metric is calculated, and how this information can be used to ensure that traffic is taking the path that is expected.

Want to know if your CPU supports SLAT (Second Level Address Translation)? In this post, Daniel Petri goes over the specific requirements for the embedded Hyper-V feature that Windows 8 Client offers.

You might be wondering if it’s safe to keep sensitive files and information on your mobile device. IT veteran Mike Danseglio discusses how to decide what data to save on your device using the Mobile Cloud, as well as three questions you should ask yourself before safely saving your data.

In this video post, Ed Liberman describes what the components of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 are, and how they relate to those found in past versions of Windows Server.