I was recently commissioned to migrate a file server for a client from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008.  A straightforward migration, I went ahead with the migration as I usually would, created the shares on the destination (hidden using the …

A while back I came across an issue while trying to create a two-way trasitive trust between two forests.  While attempting to create the trust, one direction of it would validate successfully while one direction would always fail, and I received this …

If you’ve worked with connecting to Active Directory using an LDAP connection, you know that the unsecured LDAP connection port is 389, and the secured connection port is 636.  One thing that you may not have come across is when you have a Domain Contr …

Although I have not tested this yet, Microsoft has posted a way to convert from Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk in Windows XP/Server 2003.  It appears to be somewhat risky, and that is noted at the top of the link to the article here (Workaround Section), b …

Recently we were approached by a long-time client who was merging with another company, and they had mutually decided to keep the other company’s internal domain, which would force our client to migrate to their domain.  They also wanted to upgrade fro …