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Mitch Tulloch is a widely recognized expert on Windows administration, networking, and security. He has been repeatedly awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status by Microsoft for his outstanding contributions in supporting users who deploy and use Microsoft platforms, products and solutions. Mitch has published over two hundred articles on different IT websites and magazines, and he has written or contributed to almost two dozen books and was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. For more information about Mitch, see his website http://www.mtit.com.

Windows tip: Re-using domain controller names

Posted Dec 16, 2008 - 02:12 pm

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, active directory, hardware
Windows tip: Tracking changes to active directory

Posted Dec 16, 2008 - 02:08 pm

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, active directory, auditing
Windows tip: Running virtual machines from a compressed host drive

Posted Dec 16, 2008 - 02:05 pm

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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- Windows, Mitch Tulloch, performance
Running Hyper-V on a Laptop

Posted Dec 16, 2008 - 02:00 pm

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

Posted Nov 24, 2008 - 05:19 pm

Here are a few useful Windows tips.
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- Windows, batch scripting, performance
Windows tip: Understanding Group Policy Event Logs in Vista

Posted Nov 24, 2008 - 05:15 pm

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

Posted Nov 24, 2008 - 05:11 pm

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

Posted Nov 24, 2008 - 05:09 pm

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

Posted Nov 24, 2008 - 05:02 pm

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

Posted Nov 24, 2008 - 09:57 am

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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