Following the recent Poodle vulnerability, and the general best practice that you should always use the most secure protocols available, I have been spending some time reconfiguring servers. Setting the order of ciphers, and enabling Forward Secrecy in Windows requires editing the registry – a lot. This is susceptible to errors, as the process is
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Category: Server 2003
Clean Up Unused Printer Drivers
Working on a printer migration project, and one of the first steps was to clean up the existing print servers so that when running the migration. I wanted a way to contact remote print servers too. This script, once imported allows cleanup of remote print servers. Requires Powershell 4, so run off a Windows 8/Windows
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Resizing a Dynamic System Partition on Windows 2003 – for Free.
Ok. I have a server running Windows Small Business Server 2003. Back in the day when it was set up I naively had only a 20gb System volume, on a dynamic disk, mirrored. Unfortunately that ran out of space, so I set about extending the partition. Windows Disk Management and Diskpart in Windows 2003 don’t
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Page File Location when System drive is Mirrored
I have been working on a server today which has 2 HDD, mirrored for redundancy. It is a software based mirror provided by Windows Server 2003. The server had been having a couple of performance issues, and whenlooking at the performance monitor, they tended to be caused by long write times to the Page File.
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70-294 – Passed!
1 more exam under my belt. Only 1 more to go to complete my MCSE. Got a score of 930/1000 – which I am very pleased with. 70-297 booked for week after next. Failed this once before (for a number of reasons – forgetting the date of the exam until the actual day being the
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Editing the Active Directory Schema
I am currently studying for Microsoft exam 70-294 (hence a bit quite on the posts) and can across the very short section about how to access the schema. This got me round to thinking, ‘How do you edit the schema, and how difficult can it be really?’. It turns out that it is not that
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