Windows 2008

Reset the printer spooler remotely

by Steve Wiseman on December 23, 2011 · 14 comments

in Network Administrator,Tips,Tools,Utility,Windows,Windows 2008,Windows 7,Windows Vista,Windows XP

I got a question from Lewis this week: “I hope this email finds you well. I have a plotter here at my company, and the driver is really temperamental. At least twice a week the driver crashes, and then all of the jobs get stuck in the spooler. To fix it I need to stop […]

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Cron Service for Windows

by Steve Wiseman on November 9, 2011 · 23 comments

in Tips,Tools,Utility,Windows 2000,Windows 2008,Windows 7,Windows Vista

The Cron Service for windows has been updated. To see what we have added, visit the announcement page If you spend any amount of time working with Unix, you will come across Cron and the CronTab file. What is it? Cron allows you to schedule programs to run at specified intervals, like every Sunday at […]

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Block IE 9 – Keep it out of automatic updates

by Steve Wiseman on March 11, 2011 · 2 comments

in IE,IE 9,Windows,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 Core,Windows 2008 R2,Windows 7,Windows Vista

It is that time again. Microsoft is getting close to releasing IE 9 in its final form. According to my sources, it will be released on Monday, March 14th. This also means it will show up in automatic updates as an “Important Update” If you want to prevent this from happening, you can setup a […]

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Get an email notification on system logon

by Steve Wiseman on January 14, 2011 · 27 comments

in Microsoft,Tips,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 Core,Windows 2008 R2,Windows 7

I was digging around to find a way to get an email when someone logged on to our source control server. It is a pretty important server, so I want to make sure people are only logging into it when they are supposed to. When I first started working on this idea I was going […]

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Windows 2008 Core – Enable Remote Administration

by Steve Wiseman on May 27, 2010 · 0 comments

in Tips,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 Core,Windows 2008 R2

When I first came across Windows 2008 Core, I was happy. Finally, a version of windows you could chisel down to just the base components that you needed. Microsoft did such a good job – that it is hard to configure it with the default settings 🙂 No graphical tools are provided (Well there are […]

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Remote Control 4.0 Released

by Steve Wiseman on June 19, 2009 · 0 comments

in Windows,Windows 2000,Windows 2008,Windows 7,Windows Vista,Windows XP

This is a quick one – The final version of Remote Control 4.0 has been released. Current customers with an upgrade protection license should receive their email within 24 hours. If you did not, please send an email to support@intelliadmin.com and we will take care of you as soon as possible. Here are the screenshots: […]

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Clean boot into Windows 2008, and Vista

by Steve Wiseman on June 1, 2009 · 5 comments

in Boot,Windows,Windows 2008,Windows Vista

I was troubleshooting a server yesterday and a came across an easy way to clean boot into Vista, or 2008. When I say clean boot I mean that Windows starts without any 3rd party services running. To do it, startup MSCONFIG, (Start then run…type msconfig.exe) Once it launches, move over to the services tab: Then […]

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Free Terminal Services E-Book

by Steve Wiseman on May 28, 2009 · 4 comments

in Books,Microsoft,Terminal Services,Windows,Windows 2008

Note (07/16/2009): This was a limited offer…the eBook is no longer free. You can purchase a copy from here Microsoft has announced they are giving away the Windows 2008 Terminal Services book in PDF format. I downloaded it yesterday, and it is packed with information. A must-have if you are considering implementing, or have implemented […]

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Remote Control 4.0 Beta

by Steve Wiseman on May 26, 2009 · 17 comments

in Beta,Windows,Windows 2000,Windows 2008,Windows 7,Windows Vista,Windows XP

We have been working hard on the new version of IntelliAdmin Remote Control. Some things that will be in the new version: Screen scaling – The client will automatically shrink the view to fit the screen within the window. With huge resolutions, you no longer are forced to constantly scroll around Alpha Capture Disable – […]

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Install PowerShell on Windows 2008 Server

by Steve Wiseman on May 25, 2009 · 1 comment

in Exchange,Exchange 2007,Microsoft,Widnows 2008,Windows,Windows 2008

I was trying to install Microsoft Exchange 2007 on a new 2008 server. During the install plan I got to this step: If you click on that link it leads you to a download page. Everywhere you look you see downloads for 2003, and XP. Nothing about Windows Server 2008. I decided to try one […]

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