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Active Directory is a Service

Autor brendon | 18.04.2008 | Category Server, TechStuff

Well it’s about time…. How many times have you changed something in the schema, enabled a server as a Global Catalogue, etc and needed to restart for change to take effect but couldn’t; because it was also a File & Print server or ran DHCP for several sites.

Well now you can just ‘net stop ntds’ then ‘net start ntds’.

Simple as that…. And who says Microsoft is slow, it only took them 12 years…

Change Server Core Page File

Autor brendon | 24.03.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

Fragmented page files have been known to drastically effect system performance and when you have servers hosting connections for hundreds of users this is not a good thing. When building servers for numerous customers it has been common practice to hard set a page file to 1.5x RAM size (To a maximum of 4GB).

Seeing how System Properties is missing from Windows Server Core, changing the size and allocation of the page file has become a little more involved.

Change Server Core Screen Resolution

Autor brendon | 22.03.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

This may seem like a trivial and un-important task but if the server installs with a screen resolution of 800×600 and the screen’s optimum resolution is 1024×768 or 1280×1024 how do you change it?

You can’t just open up ‘Control Panel -> Desktop’ or run ‘control desk.cpl‘ as they don’t work. Read on for the instructions.

Useful Windows Server Core Commands

Autor brendon | 22.03.2008 | Category Server, ServerCore, TechStuff

Well there are so many different commands needed to manage server core that remembering them all will certainly take a while. In the mean time I will keep this post updated with all the useful commands I have come across for configuring a server.

If you have any other suggestions please post them as a comment.