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Book of Vista (The definitive guide to Vista)
I've lately been sending people to Wikipedia for information on what's new in Windows Vista, but...
Author: BooRadely Date: 12/05/2006
How to filter the eventlog in Vista manually (XML)
So I ran into a situation last week where I wanted to filter the event log in Vista to only show...
Author: BooRadely Date: 12/04/2006
How to frisk a DC when people are complaining of "Authentication Issues".
At Microsoft we do quite a bit of dogfooding (imagine that) and in doing so we run into issues in...
Author: BooRadely Date: 12/01/2006
Windows Live Search for Mobile launched!
So Windows Live search for Mobile launched and Gizmodo did a comparison between Google maps for...
Author: BooRadely Date: 11/30/2006
These are a few of my favorite things... (Part 1)
Just wanted to list out some of the tools I use on a daily basis and some of the more common...
Author: BooRadely Date: 11/11/2006
Why is Vista such a memory hog?
It's not. So I have been hearing this a lot lately and wanted to get a link out to a good article...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/25/2006
Cool Vista Demos from thirteen23.com
Just saw this on on10.net https://www.thirteen23.com/work.html It demonstrates what you can do with...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/24/2006
My computer is hard hung, now what can I do?
You may run into instances where a machine becomes "hard hung", I usually can tell when a machine is...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/23/2006
Booting a DC into DSRM without touching it locally.
Short answer: /safeboot:DSRepair Long answer: So you will run into it often when being an AD admin...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/20/2006
IE7 released! W00t!
Nuff Said https://www.microsoft.com/ie IE blog for more details: IEBlog
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/18/2006
Hey I forgot to turn on RDP on my server!
Ever find yourself away from your server after building it out and forgot to turn on RDP so you...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/18/2006
Vista Reliability Monitor (video)
You ever wonder what the new reliabilty monitor will do for you? Also testing out embedding some...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/17/2006
How do I create an elevated cmd shortcut in Vista/LH?
Are you tired of alt-clicking the cmd icon and choosing "Run as administrator" 70 times a day? Well...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/17/2006
Dumping out all the DCs in a domain to a txt file
Short and sweet way of dumping out the DCs to a txt file, in a script: for /f "skip=1" %%a in...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/17/2006
Hey where did /3GB go in Longhorn and Vista?
If you did not already know there is no boot.ini in Vista/LH. So how do you set usermode space to...
Author: BooRadely Date: 10/02/2006
Cool Windows Vista Feature
Using the Windows key (WinKey) + a number will bring up items on your taskbar. For instance I have...
Author: BooRadely Date: 09/21/2006
Hey who deleted that user from AD???
Backstory As an Active Directory administrator you might find yourself in a scenario where an...
Author: BooRadely Date: 09/21/2006
To err is Admin....
You ever want to know what an error code was that got returned to an event, the cmd line, from you...
Author: BooRadely Date: 09/18/2006
My machine keeps bluescreening, how can I look at the dump?
Backstory Ahh the good old blue screen of death (BSOD), we've all seen it and always blame Microsoft...
Author: BooRadely Date: 09/09/2006