WindowsAdminGuru BLOG

Cisco WAAS Benefits: Cisco's new WAN Optimization platforms dramatically scale the delivery of an optimal user experience to more users, applications, and devices across the entire organization. Cisco WAAS accelerates applications, optimizes bandwidth, provides local hosting of branch IT services, and enables a smooth evolution to cloud-based services. The new Cisco WAVE Appliances: 294, 594, 694, 7541, 7571, and 8541 are 2nd generation WAN optimization solutions, delivering both a dramatic increase in performance, with the following: Five times the performance with up to 2Gbps optimized WAN throughput Four times the virtual services density with support for up to 6 virtual blades Three times the scale with 150,000 TCP Connections Substantially reduced solution footprint - third of previous footprint For more information about WAAS can visit the below links - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6870/product_at_a_glance_list.html PDFs Download Links : Cisco WAAS O

Here goes the link to download the below listed PDF documents which are related to Windows 2008 Server - http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17157 or  click the below links to download Creating_and_Deploying_Active_Directory_Rights_Management_Services_Templates_Step-by-Step_Guide.doc Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services in a Multiple Forest Environment Step-by-Step Guide.doc Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services in an Extranet Step-by-Step Guide.doc Deploying Active Directory Rights Management Services with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Step-By-Step Guide.doc Deploying an Active Directory Rights Management Services Licensing-only Cluster Step-by-Step Guide.doc Deploying SSTP Remote Access Step by Step Guide.doc Removing Active Directory Rights Management Services Step-by-Step Guide.doc Server Manager Scenarios Step-by-Step Guide.doc Server_Core_Installation_Option_of_Windows_Server_2008_Step-By-Step_Gui

What are the major changes? Several enhancements to improve performance have been made to the NTFS file system. The following changes are available in Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2: Delete notification for solid state devices (SSDs) that support T10 Trim New opportunistic locks (oplocks) semantics and introduction of oplock keys Support for file system metadata defragmenting Improvements in Volume Shrink Ability to disable short names on a per-volume basis Improved concurrency of read requests while flushing Native VHD support Chkdsk performance improvements Robocopy performance enhancement Local file copy improvements For more info, refer this link

Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables you to connect a Windows® host computer to an external iSCSI-based storage array via an Ethernet network adapter. You can use Microsoft iSCSI Initiator in your existing network infrastructure to enable block-based Storage Area Networks (SANs), which provide iSCSI target functionality without having to invest in additional hardware, as well as to enable the use of iSCSI storage devices in the home and small office. What are the major changes?   The following changes are available in Windows Server® 2008 R2: User interface enhancement and redesign The iSCSI Initiator user interface has been redesigned to allow easier access to the most commonly used settings. Additionally, the iSCSI control panel is included in Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2, which enables administrators to configure iSCSI connections through the more familiar user interface in addition to the command-line interface. New to the iSCSI Init

Sometimes you come across a user account or maybe a resource that is named in a way that is not common to your native language.  When users search for this resource they may have some difficulty.  In Active Directory there is now several phonetic attributes to help your users out. ms-DS-Phonetic-First-Name Contains the phonetic given name or first name of the person. ms-DS-Phonetic-Last-Name Contains the phonetic last name of the person. ms-DS-Phonetic-Department Contains the phonetic department name where the person works. ms-DS-Phonetic-Company-Name Contains the phonetic company name where the person works. ms-DS-Phonetic-Display-Name The phonetic display name of an object. In the absence of a phonetic display name the existing display name is used. To test this I manually populated the ms-DS-Phonetic-First-Name attribute with Bbrraadd for the user named Brad.  In Active Directory Users and computers, I did a search for the name Bbrr .  It returned the co

The tombstone value for Microsoft Networks was 60 days. However  t he problem with that is for the computers did not always make it from the factory to being joined on the domain in time. For that reason, Microsoft started to change the tombstone value to 180 days. Here are two guidelines to help you determine the tombstone value: On a domain controller in a forest that was created on a domain controller running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2008 R2, the default value is 180 days. On a domain controller in a forest that was created on a domain controller running Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2003 R2, the default value is 60 days. To absolutely know, follow this procedure on your Windows 2008 domain controller: 1. Click Start , point to Administrative Tools

AMD Catalyst: A free software suite for AMD Radeon graphics that helps improve PC performance by increasing overall stability and providing innovative AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.1 Vista 64 - Download AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.1 Vista - Download AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.1 XP 64 - Download AMD Catalyst Drivers 12.1 XP - Download credits: FileHippo.com 

The .NET Framework version redistributable package includes everything you need to run applications developed using the .NET Framework.   .NET Framework Version 4.0 - Download .NET Framework Version 3.5 SP1 - Download .NET Framework Version 2.0 SP1 - Download .NET Framework Version 1.1 - Download

I've been trying to add / submit my new blog / website page urls to Google Search Engine since last couple of days, however it is not getting displayed and throwing some error message. Here goes the error message - The page you are trying to reach does not exist (404). Does any one have any idea about this error message. Why Google stops this option to submit / add the new URLs to Google Search Engine. Is Google trying to avoid submitting the new URLs like this instead Google might be suggesting to add the new URL to Google Web Master Tools and submit a sitemap. I think this might help to the new blogs to add /submit the same.

This is some kind of common error while doing the patching to the windows 2003 servers - The Site Cannot Continue because one or more of these Windows Services is not running Here goes the error screen shot - What we need to do if you face this error, just follow the below steps - Solution: Enable (Start) the BITS service manually.

There is a recent change in the domain name change based on the blogs that has been created and maintained by. Looks like Google has regionalized the blogspot domains and also seen that some of the .com domains redirects to .org as well. Is this change only to the Indian Blogs or to every one? We are yet to know what kind of impact on this change and any page ranks would be changed etc. And I read in some blogs that due this change there 'single page indexing, PR is dropped'. We are yet to how far this is true. Guys please do check your blogs as well.

The Remote Computer Disconnected the session because of an error in the Licensing protocol This is been annoying every server administrator in all the big environments when the local laptops / machines upgraded to Windows 7 from XP or lower versions. Follow the below solution to resolve your issue - Note: Please make sure you take backup the registry (full or required keys) before you start doing below steps - 1. Run regedit. 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing. 3. Take a backup of the hardwareID and Store keys under MSLicensing. 4. Delete the hardwareID and Store keys. 5. Reboot the PC. This creates new hardwareID and Store keys. 6. For Vista and Windows 7 to create the new keys you need to run remote desktop as the administrator after rebooting the computer.