Network Consulting

Get information from the source, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 .

More information can be found here:

• Windows Server Reference Guide
• Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
• TechNet - Active Directory
• LabMice Active Directory
• AD by Petri
• Windows 2008 by Petri
• Online Book - Windows Server 2008 Unleashed
• FSMO Roles
• An easy way to find out which servers host the FSMO roles

• netdom query fsmo

• Windows 2008 Core Configurator
• WindowsITPro - Active Directory
• Active Directory Mailing List
• Joeware - AD Tools
• AD and Misc
• DCDiag and NetDiag GUI tool
• Using Microsoft DFS for Failover
• Windows BBS
• Windows Migration NT - 2003
• MyDefrag - This is a very good defragger, and it is free too!
• The Lazy Admin
• Computer Performance
• BGInfo - I use this for all the servers I work on, I really like it and recommend it. It gives all the neccesary information about a server listed on the desktop background.
• Blogs, News, and Forums – RSS enabled
• Active Directory News and Articles – RSS enabled
• A few nice AD utils – actively developed
• Ever wanted to check a servers uptime?  From the command prompt type:

• net statistics server

Storage

• RAID Calculator
• RoboCopy is an advanced copy utility with has the feature to automatically resume file transfer on error or network disruption, or recover from terminated file copying, plus selective copying based on new or updated criteria.  It will also copy ACL (NTFS permissions).
• RichCopy is similar to Robocopy, except that it has a GUI interface.  It is very powerful.