Who hasn’t heard of “someone” who has accidentally deleted an entire Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory? If you’re lucky, you’ve never had to explain a personal human error such as this, but I’ve heard of many horror stories of people who have accidentally deleted OUs filled with hundreds, and in one case, over 5000 [...]
This is a part 8 of my MCSE and System Administrator job interview sample questions. See previous parts at:
Part 1 – Networking
Part 2 – Windows Server 2003 Active Directory
Part 3 – Exchange Server 2003
Part 4 – PC Technician
Part 5 – Exchange Server 2007/2010
Part 6 – Windows Server 2008/R2 Active Directory
Part 7 – Windows [...]
Microsoft has made ready in time for Christmas and some new theme packages for Windows 7 can download for free. As usual, users with the packages can Design the user interface of Windows 7 to adjust as desired.
These theme packages are in addition to the wintry Christmas Theme Twinkle Wish and contain not only [...]
The Start Menu in Windows 7 isn’t to everyones taste. Personally I like it old school. The Classic Start Menu first introduced to us in Windows 95 was carried onto Windows 98 and then Windows Me, XP and lastly Windows Vista was simple yet effective. Strangely Redmond decided to give it the axe for Windows [...]
If you get Error codes as following:
WindowsUpdate_800B0100 or 0×800B0100
Try this:
1.Click start Button –> Control Panel –> System and Security –> System, To View basic information of your computer: such as my Windows edition is “ Windows 7 Ultimate”
2..Go to the System Update Readiness Tool webpage:
Download System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7 The tool [...]
1. Click Start Menu –> All Programs –> Accessories –> right-click the Command prompt –> Select “Run as administrator”
2. In the elevated command prompt, type the following command to modify Windows 7 Boot Loader.
bcdedit /default {ntldr}*******This places Windows XP as the default OS to boot first with.
bcdedit /set {current} description “My edited Windows Boot Entry”******* [...]
I have had this post hanging around on my computer for a while waiting for me to have some time to finish and upload it but here goes.I have spent the couple of months or so evaluating Vista with respect to:-
Features and how to centrally manage and them with Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
How to lockdown [...]
Followings are the core components that implement Windows security:· Security reference monitor (SRM) A component in the Windows executive (\Windows\ System32\Ntoskrnl.exe) that is responsible for defining the access token data structure to represent a security context, performing security access checks on objects, manipulating privileges (user rights), and [...]
There are several new features in Windows Server virtualization that help create a scalable, secure and highly available virtualization platform as a part of Windows Server 2008. The following are some of the key components and features of Windows Server virtualization.
· Windows hypervisor. This is a very thin layer [...]
When you install Google applications like Chrome or Desktop onto your computer an exe named GoogleUpdate.exe is also included in the package. This runs in the background and checks for updates for Google’s programs. This pesky little updater runs as a process in Windows XP and Vista and chews up valuable memory! Since everyone knows [...]
