Recently I had to repair one Exchange 2007 database using eseutil /p command. Database is 176GB large. You should use eseutil /p as a last resort for your database, but that is topic for some other time.In my experience eseutil /p always succeeds, but last time I thought it wouldn`t. Read More
By default only one user can be logged onto Windows Server 2008 R2. If you log in via RDP, local user will be logged out. This short tutorial will show you how to enable multiple connections on your 2008 R2 server. Read More
Split tunneling is not the option you want for clients that access your network through VPN. Split tunneling enables user to access his local network and your VPN tunnel at the same time and that can represent a great security risk for VPN protected network. Still, split tunneling is needed in some cases, so here is how to enable it.
Default administrative shares are present on every fresh installation of Windows Server 2008. Some of these shares can be potential security threat for your system. Here is how to get rid of them.
There are few common default shares, and here is description of their purpose: Read More
Recently I tested Domain Trusts\VPNs on my virtual lab and at one point I wanted to add a user as Local Admin on Domain Controller. Idea was pretty thoughtless since there is no Local Users Group on DC. Once you promote server to DC, there is no way to define Local Admin on it.