Kevin Oppihle's Tech Notes

slmgr /rearm -to extend activation without a key for 30 more days 3 times up to 120 days slmgr /ipk -install key slmgr /ato -activate windows slmgr /dli -KMS activation count from KMS host slmgr /dlv -display license info slmgr /xpr -display expiration date

ISA RSA Administration: Using the Following for RSA VPN through ISA2006 · RSA 7.0 Management Console is installed on Server1 · RSA 6.1 Agent is installed on ISA2006 Server (Other Agents will not work on ISA2006) · RSA 7.1 EAP Client is installed on VPN authorized Guest Systems For Licensing and Main Administration Select the RSA Operations Console : Log on using the RSA administrative credentials For Users and Keyfob Administration Select the RSA Security Console : Log on using the RSA administrative credentials To add or manage a user : From the Home Menu Select “Identity”> “Users” : By default these queries are blank click “Search” at the bottom to run the query: You can add a new user using the “Add New” button: Fill in the user fields below and “Save”:  Note the Password policy no @ or ~: The new user will then be listed: To add a key fob click on the arrow next to the user name and select SecurID Tokens: Select “Assign Tokens” Select the check box next to the token ...

Jose Barreto's Blog Post Covers The Basics: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/03/10/the-basics-of-the-windows-server-2008-distributed-file-system-dfs.aspx My Notes: If you have an environment transitioning from 2003 to 2008. Once your domain controllers are all 2008 and you can use the proper domain and forest levels, rather than trying to convert a smaller 2000 DFS configuration I would consider starting DFS over with the following steps: -document thoroughly your configuration. -review what you have and what you don't need. (how many namespace servers are you using?) -backup the data on both the primary and replica location -log off users to make sure the data is not in use -delete your old namespaces, namespace servers, and replications. (not the data!) -recreate DFS using 2008 only namespace servers to rebuild your DFS paths -carefully recreate your DFS replicas -restart servers and desktops as neces...

2008 Server Core Initial Setup notes: Credit "Avi Samocha's Blog" Set password for local admin – Choose 'Other User' at the logon screen> type 'Administrator' with no password and press Enter > Follow the instruction to create a new password. Run Sysprep (For deployment) – Navigate to 'C:\windows\system32\sysprep' and run - sysprep /OOBE /Generalize /shutdown. Disable/Enable Screen Saver and Screen Saver Lock – Regedit: Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and modify the 'ScreenSaverActive' & 'ScreenSaverIsSecure' Keys (0 to Disable, 1 to Enable). Rename the Server – netdom renamecomputer <ComputerName> /NewName:<NewComputerName> Setup IP Configuration – View Interfaces: netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Set IP for Interface: Netsh interface ipv4 set address "InterfaceName" static 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 Set DNS Server Addresses: netsh interf...

VSS errors using Veeam backup: To disable local VSS data Log onto VM as Administrator Open Command Prompt as Administrator Use vssadmin at the command prompt: c:\Vssadmin list shadows Which showed me what drive was using VSS In the GUI though the drive was listed as shadow copies off but it still was using storage for VSS files. Re-enabled VSS for that drive then immediately disabled it again which deleted the old VSS files and set me back to 0% used. Alternatively I probably could have used vssadmin to delete the VSS files as well using the  c:\vssadmin Delete Shadows  and  c:\vssadmin Delete Shadow Storage  options. I ran a restart of COM+ services from services.mmc which restarted all the other dependencies as well. I  then reran veeam backup job and no more VSS errors. However if  the next backup fails with “failed to delete oib….”  you will need to recreate the job, but you should not get t...