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xp vERBOSE sTARTUP

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:19:49

You've got to love CAPS LOCK. If you're XP machine takes an age booting up, make this tweak and you can see exactly what exe's are being processed during the startup process. Windows XP still r0x more than Vista.

Cheers
Ryan Partington

AD Restore

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:22:10

Yesterday I worked through an authoritative restore of active directory. A number of user accounts, including the 'system mailbox' account had been deleted. We decided a full AD restore would address the issues without too much pain, as nothing had changed in the AD schema recently. There were some pain points, mainly waiting around unsure to force a server offline or continue to wait. Here I document what we followed and some tips to help anyone in the similar situation. Click (View Page) for the full article