Category Archives: Windows Server 2008

Why PowerShell remoting can’t be enabled on a Windows server 2008

By default PSRemoting is disabled in Windows server 2008, is there any reason why PowerShell remoting can’t be enabled on the Windows server 2008 box? And of course we can enable manually through multiple ways, any security risks/issues on Windows server To address about risks/issues of enabling it, there might actually be none. The question… Read More »

Enable Powershell Remoting on Windows server 2008 R2 and 2012

Powershell Remoting is very impressive feature from Windows server 2008 R2 / Powershell 2.0, it allows to run any PowerShell commands or access full PowerShell sessions on remote Server unlike the older native commands that run on the same server where the command been executed , so it’s powerful and easy to run a function from multiple… Read More »

Monitor NTLM authentication delays and issues on Windows 2008 and 2012

Events to track authentication delays and issues: Finally we have new event log entries that can track NTLM authentication delays and issues in Windows Server 2008 R2, in a complex environment with multiple Forests and multiple Domains NTLM authentication request will be more and it’s difficult to monitor and track the Bottlenecks Also Read: AD… Read More »

Compare Installed Windows Security Patches with other Servers

How to compare Installed Windows Security Patches with different Servers: If you are troubleshooting Windows server 2003, 2008 ans 2012 issues and you may have a working server and not working server, want to check is any patches are missing compared to working server? Use the below PowerShell command to compare installed patches between two servers… Read More »

Difference between windows server 2003 and windows 2008

In my earlier article I have already discussed about the Difference between Active Directory 2003 and Active Directory 2008 DNS 2003 and DNS 2008 Group policy 2003 and Group policy 2008   Also see, Difference between windows server 2008 and windows server 2012   I would like to discuss about the difference between windows 2003 and windows 2008… Read More »

Issue managing IE configuration through GPO

List of trusted sites went empty recently, yes the Trusted Sites list got empty, it says: “No sites are in this zone” how to resolve this issue We had an issue like some one edited the default domain policy to update the trusted site list and we have lost entire IE configuration (Like trusted site… Read More »

Group Policy slow link detection on windows server 2008

Group Policy slow link detection process change on windows server 2008You can see my earlier article on Group Policy slow link detection Group Policy Processing over Slow Links in windows 2003(part1) Group Policy Processing over Slow Links(Part2) In windows server 2003, Group Policy slow link detection uses the ICMP ping to detect the network bandwidth.… Read More »

Sysvol Replication change in Windows 2008

Group Policy replication change Before I start the SYSVOL replication changes in windows server 2008, I would like to explain how the GPO has been replicated in windows server 2003 and earlier versions Also Read:  force sysvol replication on Windows 2008 and windows server 2012 Understanding SYSVOL/GPO replication Group policy template (GPT) and group policy… Read More »