I stumbled across this free Windows Server 2008 training material provided by Train Signal.
http://www.server2008training.com

I’ve upgraded a few handfuls of vista systems to SP1 already and haven’t had a single issue yet, but I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later.  My first error/problem system came with a Sony Vaio laptop.   After the initial reboot, it immediately received a missing/corrupt ACPI.SYS error.
I knew most likely it could [...]

So I got a new laptop, a Dell Latitude D630.  I decided to use BitLocker to encrypt the drive’s contents.   After using the Drive Preparation Tool, enabling the TPM chip in the laptops BIOS, and activating the chip,  I was presented with the following error within Vista while trying to turn on drive encryption:
Cannot run. [...]

I always forget about this one.   I rarely use ExMerge as it is, but occasionally it’s a easy way to grab a copy of a mailbox off of the Exchange server.   In this case I needed to grab 5 mailboxes before I removed the users from the system.
But if you try and use the Administrator [...]

I recently got a new Dell Laptop D630 and it came with Vista Business 32-bit.  Being the badass IT guy that I am, 32-bit is not enough for me.   I need the memory increase that 64-bit allows.   With a 32bit version of Windows, your maximum memory can only be around 3.25gb.  With 64-bit, I think [...]

I ran across this problem not too long ago where after upgrading to a new file server, users that had been previously synchronizing their Offline Files were having issues with Offline Files still trying to synchronize with the original / old file server name.   The old server was already decommissioned and removed, so the only [...]

I stumbled across this little utility / tool from Microsoft that diagrams Active Directory.  I can be pretty useful if you ever need to document or diagram Active Directory.
Overview
With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can read your Active Directory structure through Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO). The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool automates [...]