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Windows Server 2008 Core License Activiation by Script

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2007 / Leave a comment

Windows 2008 Core server does not support GUI and right clicking your computer and use the control panel options to activate the server is not available anymore. Copy the script below and supply your own license key code. Open notepad from command prompt. Eg notepad license.cmd; paste the the code below with your own key; save the file and run the cmd script.
Whitebox PC: building my Intel Quad Core 2 Q6600

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2007 / 1 Comment

Last week I finally got some time to install and build my Intel Quad Core 2 Q6600 machine. The components were all purchased online: 1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping 2.4 GHz 8Mb €228,50 1 x Asus P5N-E €105,00 2 x Corsair 4096MB DDR2 PC6400 Matched Pair TwinX C5 €242,95 1 x Corsair ATX 450W 24P €63,50 1 x Asus Silent Knight €52,50 1 x Asus 256MB EN8600GT...
Rename Windows Server 2008 Core with netdom.exe

Posted by Ivan
/ October 2, 2007 / 2 Comments

Type the hostname.exe command line to see the current computername which has been generated by the Windows setup. Select the computername and press enter on the keyboard. Now we are going to rename the server and prepare it for dcpromo process.
Windows Server 2008 Core DC install Windows 2003 forest

Posted by Ivan
/ September 6, 2007 / Leave a comment

Today I installed my first Windows Server 2008 Core server. This new server should act as Active Directory Domain Controller. Windows Server 2008 release introduces Core Server concept. I wanted to learn more about Core Server and planned to install this server as additional domain controller. Just before promoting the new Core Server into my test domain (Windows 2003), I was forced to run the adprep.exe utility to prepare the schema for the new server...
XML Report of Windows EventViewer Security EventID 529

Posted by Ivan
/ July 4, 2007 / Leave a comment

The following LogParser.exe command will query Windows NT Securiy log with EventID 529 and parse the data into %computername%_security_logons_failed_529.xml.
Logparser: how to analyze your log files?

Posted by Ivan
/ June 18, 2007 / 1 Comment

As IT security professionals we scan our networks and use different tools to perform our job. In the end we have dozen of log files which we need to analyze. Couple days I found a nice tool developed by Microsoft called LogParser. It has some neat features for queering different data sources. I played with it and came up with some nice command lines. Put your logs in a directory...
SMS Report – Delete Computer Object

Posted by Ivan
/ June 13, 2007 / 2 Comments

This report will delete a computer object from the SMS database. Use this report if you restage a computer with the same name. Normal process will take more than 30days to age to stale the record.
Hello world! from Networknet.nl

Posted by Ivan
/ June 12, 2007 / Leave a comment

Welcome to Networknet.nl. This is my first WordPress post ever. A friend of mine Virgil Verloop changed his hosting provider and he showed me all new features he got with his Linux hosting plan. I registered a new domain and migrated my domain “Networknet.nl” to this provider. As soon I learned the new options like mysql databases and php engine, I installed this website based on WordPress. After 5 years...