Check for duplicate Security Identifiers (SID) on your domain

Mark Russinovich makes a strong case for duplicate SID myths that most of us Windows admins have subscribed to–however it never hurts to know how many duplicates you may have. Here is how you check it on your domain. Open a command prompt and type ntdsutil  and press ENTER. Now type  security account management and

Remove ghosted network adapter from windows

The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter… From time to time you may encounter this error on a newly P2V system. In the past it was a registry fix but now Microsoft has a prefered GUI solution: Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Set MTU packet size on an adapter

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