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Every installation of Windows based on the Windows NT code base has a builtin admin account called Administrator. Every installation of Active Directory Directoy Services also has a builtin admin account called Administrator. (If you are running a version of Windows other than English, your accounts may be named something else.) This account provides complete access …
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers have left Windows NT 4.0 behind. Windows Server 2008 would still let the old guy play along, but no more. This fact is not apparant until you start to look closer: DCPromo in Windows Server 2008 R2 will not let you select Windows 2000 mixed mode for your domain functional level. …
For some time now I have been trying to make persistent differencing disks work in VirtualBox. The idea is to have one base disk with all the software that all the VMs you want to deploy needs. Typically the OS, all patches up until the time you created the base disk, common apps like Flash …
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Sometimes I need a “copy” of an Active Directory domain, partition or LDS instance. Usually this is when I remove decomissioned domains in a multi-domain forest and want to keep a record of what was left when I deleted it. You can do this With LDIFDE.EXE. Here is an example command to make a full …
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