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Book of Vista (The definitive guide to Vista)

I've lately been sending people to Wikipedia for information on what's new in Windows Vista, but...

Author: BooRadely Date: 12/05/2006

How to filter the eventlog in Vista manually (XML)

So I ran into a situation last week where I wanted to filter the event log in Vista to only show...

Author: BooRadely Date: 12/04/2006

How to frisk a DC when people are complaining of "Authentication Issues".

At Microsoft we do quite a bit of dogfooding (imagine that) and in doing so we run into issues in...

Author: BooRadely Date: 12/01/2006

Windows Live Search for Mobile launched!

So Windows Live search for Mobile launched and Gizmodo did a comparison between Google maps for...

Author: BooRadely Date: 11/30/2006

These are a few of my favorite things... (Part 1)

Just wanted to list out some of the tools I use on a daily basis and some of the more common...

Author: BooRadely Date: 11/11/2006

Why is Vista such a memory hog?

It's not. So I have been hearing this a lot lately and wanted to get a link out to a good article...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/25/2006

Cool Vista Demos from thirteen23.com

Just saw this on on10.net https://www.thirteen23.com/work.html It demonstrates what you can do with...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/24/2006

My computer is hard hung, now what can I do?

You may run into instances where a machine becomes "hard hung", I usually can tell when a machine is...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/23/2006

Booting a DC into DSRM without touching it locally.

Short answer: /safeboot:DSRepair Long answer: So you will run into it often when being an AD admin...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/20/2006

IE7 released! W00t!

Nuff Said https://www.microsoft.com/ie IE blog for more details: IEBlog

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/18/2006

Hey I forgot to turn on RDP on my server!

Ever find yourself away from your server after building it out and forgot to turn on RDP so you...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/18/2006

Vista Reliability Monitor (video)

You ever wonder what the new reliabilty monitor will do for you? Also testing out embedding some...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/17/2006

How do I create an elevated cmd shortcut in Vista/LH?

Are you tired of alt-clicking the cmd icon and choosing "Run as administrator" 70 times a day? Well...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/17/2006

Dumping out all the DCs in a domain to a txt file

Short and sweet way of dumping out the DCs to a txt file, in a script: for /f "skip=1" %%a in...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/17/2006

Hey where did /3GB go in Longhorn and Vista?

If you did not already know there is no boot.ini in Vista/LH. So how do you set usermode space to...

Author: BooRadely Date: 10/02/2006

Cool Windows Vista Feature

Using the Windows key (WinKey) + a number will bring up items on your taskbar. For instance I have...

Author: BooRadely Date: 09/21/2006

Hey who deleted that user from AD???

Backstory As an Active Directory administrator you might find yourself in a scenario where an...

Author: BooRadely Date: 09/21/2006

To err is Admin....

You ever want to know what an error code was that got returned to an event, the cmd line, from you...

Author: BooRadely Date: 09/18/2006

My machine keeps bluescreening, how can I look at the dump?

Backstory Ahh the good old blue screen of death (BSOD), we've all seen it and always blame Microsoft...

Author: BooRadely Date: 09/09/2006

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