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Windows tip: Re-using domain controller names

You have five domain controllers named SEA-DC1 thru SEA-DC5. The physical hardware for SEA-DC3 is getting kind of old, so you do the following:
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Windows tip: Tracking changes to active directory

Do you have trouble sleeping at night, worrying that one of your admins or delegated users might change some aspect of your Active Directory environment?
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Windows tip: Running virtual machines from a compressed host drive

Is it a good idea -- or a bad one -- to compress the drive on a host system used for running virtual machines?
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Running Hyper-V on a Laptop

Some tips for running Hyper-V on a laptop for doing virtual machine demos.
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Five tips for Windows administrators

Here are a few useful Windows tips.
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Windows tip: Understanding Group Policy Event Logs in Vista

How logging of Group Policy events and debug info has changed in Windows Vista compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows.
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Windows tip: Working with GPLogView

How to use GPLogView.exe to troubleshoot Group Policy processing in Windows Vista and later.
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Windows tip: How to troubleshoot Group Policy issues

Here's a systematic procedure you can follow when troubleshooting Group Policy processing issues in Windows Vista and later.
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Windows tip: Extend the life of SSD and USB flash drives

A tip on extending the life of SSD and USB flash drives, plus an update to a previous tip published a few weeks ago.
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PowerPoint deck cleanup

Here's a tip on how to clean up your PowerPoint presentations so you can safely distribute them to customers after having removed sensitive information.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325

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