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Q. How can I quickly get a health report of my Active Directory (AD) 2008 SYSVOL DFSR replication?

By John Savill, 03/02/2010

Q. How can I bind and unbind various protocols on my server from the command line?

By John Savill, 03/01/2010

Q. Does Cisco Unity support Microsoft Exchange Server 2010?

By John Savill, 02/28/2010

Q. If I have a virtualization host that has multi-core CPUs and assign a virtual machine (VM) a single processor, does it have access to all of the cores in the processor?

By John Savill, 02/27/2010

Q. Can I replace the recovery environment provided with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DART) environment?

By John Savill, 02/26/2010

Q. How do I create a Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset (DART) bootable image?

By John Savill, 02/25/2010

Q. Where can I download the Microsoft debugging tools?

By John Savill, 02/24/2010

Q. Is a 64-bit VPN client available?

By John Savill, 02/23/2010

Q. I'm using AT&T U-verse and my Gateway is showing many computers that no longer exist on my network. How can I remove them?

By John Savill, 02/23/2010

Q. I took a number of photographs and want to combine them into a panoramic photo. What's an easy way to do it?

By John Savill, 02/22/2010

Q. I need a 64-bit CPU stress tester, where can I get one?

By John Savill, 02/22/2010

Q. How can I start a VMware ESX virtual machine (VM) from the command line?

By John Savill, 02/21/2010

Q. How can I install VMware ESX patches from the command line?

By John Savill, 02/20/2010

Q. How can I place my VMware ESX server in maintenance mode from the command line?

By John Savill, 02/19/2010

Q. How can I check the tombstone lifetime of my Active Directory forest?

By John Savill, 02/18/2010

Q. What's the default tombstone lifetime of my Active Directory (AD) forest?

By John Savill, 02/17/2010

Q. How can I disable the DNS management snap-in from being used remotely?

By John Savill, 02/16/2010

Q. Can I migrate users to a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain with Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) 3.1?

By John Savill, 02/16/2010

Q. Are there any domain or forest functional level restrictions when using Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) 3.1?

By John Savill, 02/15/2010

Q. How can I export and import calendar data with Microsoft Office Outlook 2010?

By John Savill, 02/15/2010

Q. Is there a way to modify my VMware Workstation environment to use an alternate BIOS for a virtual machine (VM) for testing purposes?

By John Savill, 02/14/2010

Q. I'm creating a virtual machine (VM) in VMware Workstation, but when I try to install an OS I receive an error that VT isn't enabled. What's wrong?

By John Savill, 02/13/2010

Q. One of my Exchange Server 2010 servers has failed and I don't have a backup. What's the easiest way to recreate the server?

By John Savill, 02/12/2010

Q. How can I un-cluster a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM)?

By John Savill, 02/11/2010

Q. Can I have a mix of Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 in my Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG)?

By John Savill, 02/10/2010

Q. How can I enable or disable a Windows role or feature with DISM?

By John Savill, 02/09/2010

Q. Are Database Availability Groups (DAGs) included in the standard edition of Exchange Server 2010?

By John Savill, 02/09/2010

Q. I read that I only need the standard edition of Windows Server 2008 for Exchange Server 2010. Is this right?

By John Savill, 02/08/2010

Q. How can I use the DISM tool to list all of the features available in an OS instance?

By John Savill, 02/08/2010

Q. How can I import my Windows Media Player (WMP) playlists into iTunes?

By John Savill, 02/07/2010

Q. How can I check that my Exchange (or any other) email server isn't usable as an SMTP relay for everyone on the Internet?

By John Savill, 02/06/2010

Q. What's a fast way to find how long my system has been running?

By John Savill, 02/05/2010

Q. Is there a keyboard shortcut to hide and show Windows Ribbons?

By John Savill, 02/04/2010

Q. I'm trying to connect to my Exchange 2010 server using IMAP, but it's failing. What's wrong?

By John Savill, 02/03/2010

Q. I have a zone called TrustAnchors on my Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS server. What is it?

By John Savill, 02/02/2010

Q. I'm trying to connect to my Exchange 2010 server using POP3, but it's failing. What's wrong?

By John Savill, 02/02/2010

Q. Is there any difference between compatibility mode and XP Mode in Windows 7?

By John Savill, 02/01/2010

Q. In a previous FAQ, you said you could disable IPv6. I thought clusters only communicated via IPv6 with Windows Server 2008, is this true?

By John Savill, 02/01/2010

Q. I want to shut down my Hyper-V cluster. Is there a special order in which I should shut down the nodes?

By John Savill, 01/31/2010

Q. What's Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM)?

By John Savill, 01/30/2010

Q. What's the best way to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 7 installation?

By John Savill, 01/29/2010

Q. How can I install Windows 7's FTP server feature?

By John Savill, 01/28/2010

Q. Is there an easy way to clean up the metadata of deleted domain controllers (DCs)?

By John Savill, 01/27/2010

Q. How can I avoid receiving errors from PowerShell commands when data is missing?

By John Savill, 01/26/2010

Q. How can I link a Policy Object (GPO) in PowerShell with Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2?

By John Savill, 01/26/2010

Q. How can I have a script check if a certain patch is installed?

By John Savill, 01/25/2010

Q. How do I create a Group Policy Object (GPO) in PowerShell with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2?

By John Savill, 01/25/2010

Q. What is the Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) in Windows 7?

By John Savill, 01/24/2010

Q. What is hard linking migration in User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) 4?

By John Savill, 01/23/2010

Q. Should I use a hardware or software iSCSI Initiator?

By John Savill, 01/22/2010

Q. How do I enable mouse integration with Linux Hyper-V guests?

By John Savill, 01/21/2010

Q. How do I install the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components?

By John Savill, 01/20/2010

Q. What are the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V?

By John Savill, 01/19/2010

Q. How can I add and remove Windows roles and features from PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2?

By John Savill, 01/19/2010

Q. How can I quickly get the status of all the virtual machines (VMs) System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is managing from PowerShell?

By John Savill, 01/18/2010

Q. I'm using the Microsoft iSCSI Target that's available for Windows Storage Server 2008, but when I try to connect to the target to perform discovery I see no targets. What's wrong?

By John Savill, 01/18/2010

Q. Is it true BitLocker is actually in all versions of Windows 7, not just the Ultimate and Enterprise editions?

By John Savill, 01/17/2010

Q. I'm downloading some software and it has an i586 version. What's i586?

By John Savill, 01/16/2010

Q. Where can I check the up-to-date list of supported Hyper-V guest OSs?

By John Savill, 01/15/2010

Q. I'm receiving an error about missing DLL files when adding a node to an existing Windows Server 2008 cluster. Why?

By John Savill, 01/14/2010


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