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This is an article following my previous one about the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool – read “Quickly Analyze your Server’s Performance Monitor Logs ". Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Performance Advisor v2.0 is the latest version of Server Performance Advisor, which is a simple but robust tool that helps you diagnose the root causes…

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) tackles email address forgery. Without SPF it is very easy to send e-mails using someone else’s email address. Often you get spam from yourself – this is because the spammer puts your e-mail address as the sender. In order for SPF to work you need to publish a list of IP…

How can I quickly send files to Notepad for quick editing? This is one of my favorite tweaks, and it will amaze you how you lived all these years without knowing it (or did you? you wouldn’t be here if you did…) The easiest way of all is to do the following: Go to %SystemDrive%documents…

How do I quickly send a file as an attachment to a mail recipient via MAPI? To send any file as an attachment to a mail recipient via MAPI you can do the following: Go to %SystemDrive%’documents and settings’%username%’sendto (or ‘Windows’SendTo in Win9X). Right-click in the right hand panel and select New > Text Document…

How can I send an e-mail message from a script? There are a few simple ways to send e-mail messages from the command prompt or from within a script. Here are 5 of my favorites (listed at no particular order): Method #1: MAILSEND If you want to send a single e-mail message or hundreds of…

Why is the SELF permission the only permission seen on the Mailbox Rights properties on Exchange 2000/2003 mailboxes? MS KB 272153 has more info: In Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, when you create new mailbox-enabled accounts in Active Directory, they do not have inherited mailbox rights. The only object that is…

How can I forcibly seize FSMO Roles from one domain controller (DC) to another? Windows Server Active Directory domains utilize a Single Operation Master method called FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operation). The five FSMO roles are: Seize FSMO roles using PowerShell You can seize FSMO roles using the PowerShell Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole cmdlet. The syntax for the…

Latest Microsoft Hotfixes and Patches – Hotfix & Security Bulletin ServiceThe following list is taken from the Microsoft HotFix and Security Bulleting Service Note: This list is NOT a complete list of all Hotfixes and Patches provided by Microsoft. For the complete list please see the link above. Also, take a look at my Updating…

When Microsoft Windows 2000 was released many years ago, administrators were blessed with new functionality called Terminal Services which easily allowed remote administration of a server. The functionality or the concept was actually not new. Administrators of Windows operating systems as well as other platforms are plenty familiar with the concept of remote administration. For…

How can I prevent other users from disabling the IPSEC Policy Agent service? In previous articles I’ve showed you how to protect your computer with the IPSEC mechanism (see Block Ping Traffic with IPSec, Block Web Browsing but Allow Intranet Traffic with IPSec and Block Web Browsing with IPSec). These articles describe how an administrator…

Advanced Search Tips “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Samuel Johnson, 1744 A lot of people have problems navigating through Microsoft’s knowledgebase as well as general difficulty with finding information on the Internet. This page might help you do a better…

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