Hello all, Eric here again. Today, I wanted to expand a bit on a relatively recent posting that AskDS posted - http://tinyurl.com/askds-post. I'm sure the escalation engineers have seen that issue a number of times, one of which was with a customer of mine when that customer hit the CritSit button.  Obligingly, I escalated after I spent an hour or so stumped as to what happened since I was told that no changes were made. They chose to escalate with good reason though, as their environment ... [More]

                Many times I have found it needful to be able to find what adapters are loaded on a server, whether they are not showing up in device manager, I wanted to validate whether network teaming was enabled, I wanted to see if some firewall miniport driver was installed, I wanted to see if the local Antivirus added anything, or any other reason. Here are some steps I have found helpful when validating what Networ... [More]

This is intended to be part of a larger series on the registry.  I have always loved the registry because there is just so much potential there.  Group policy has really made that evident and now more than ever with group policy preferences.  However, there is a lot that is misunderstood in the registry – and much of it by me.  So, this will be an exercise in my own education as much as an exposition.  Let’s start with the staples of the registry.  The ... [More]