Warning: These setting affect all packets sent to all destinations and performance can severly be affected. This is registry modification to hardcode specific MTU sices on a particular network interface: Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet ServicesTcpipParametersInterfaces On the Edit menu, point
After a snapshot restore in VMware you may encounter secure channel errors. Here is an easy way to reset the SC from the command prompt that can be run either from the domain member or the domain controller. netdom reset “machine name” /domain:”domain name”
Issue this command to reset GPO settings to their defaults (enter thisas one line): secedit /configure /db reset /cfg “c:windowssecuritytemplatessetup security.inf” /overwrite Delete the registry.pol file if it exists (enter this as one line): del c:windowssystem32grouppolicymachineregistry.pol Reboot the server
This modification helps identify various logon problems including group policy processing and roaming profile issues. Very helpful but should be enabled for troubleshooting purposes only in verbose mode. Modify the following registry value: Subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon Entry: UserEnvDebugLevel Type: REG_DWORD Value data: 10002 (Hexadecimal) set this to 0x00030002 –this will give debug/verbose output: the log
From time to time I have had the need to reset a Windows Server 2003 security settings. The following comand does a pretty good job in reseting the following paramaters: SECURITYPOLICY, GROUP_MGMT, USER_RIGHTS, REGKEYS, FILESTORE, and SERVICES. From the command prompt: secedit /configure /cfg %windir%repairsecsetup.inf /db sesetup.sdb /verbose You should eventually receive a “task complete”
Have you ever needed to change or add permissions to a large number of files and/or folder? Well you can use the powerful Subinacl to modify file and directory permissions. The utility is part of the Microsoft Windows Server Resource Kit For example if I need to grant access to my account for a bunch