Upgrading to Windows 8 will not be expensive. Microsoft announced the prices and they are looking promising.
Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users will qualify for an upgrade to Windows 8 PRO [...]
The following article show how to grant a user the same level of rights as an administrator of a member server or a workstation on a domain controller while preventing that user from having rights to Active [...]
You can turn off User Account Control (UAC), but I don't recommend you to do that. It weakens the overall security of your Windows system.
To turn UAC off in Windows 7, type UAC in the Start menu [...]
DCPROMO command with a graphical interface can't be run on Server Core. You will have to create an unattended answer file to perform the demotion.
The quickest way to create this file is to run [...]
The Active Directory database will eventually become fragmented, just like any other database does. Windows Server 2008 performs behind-the-scenes maintenance tasks in an effort to keep the database healthy, [...]
In a Domain forest, there are five FSMO roles that are assigned to one or more domain controllers. The five FSMO roles are:
Schema Master:
The schema master domain controller controls all [...]
Active Directory domains utilize a Single Operation Master method called FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operation).
In most cases you can keep the FSMO role holders in the same Domain Controller [...]
When ever your machine is making frequent writes and deletions from your hard disk, your hdd will become fragmented. Fragmentation means that files are not consistent and not contiguous, and thus fragmentation [...]
The easiest way to see your computer name in Windows is to just hit the Win+Break key combination, which will pop up the System pane from Control Panel.
You can also check it using command line.
the [...]
After downloading Windows Updates page you may notice that Windows XP no longer logs into your account automatically. This is caused after the installation of .NET Framework from Microsoft. Windows creates [...]
