Hello all, Eric here again. Today, I wanted to expand a bit on a relatively recent posting that AskDS posted - http://tinyurl.com/askds-post. I'm sure the escalation engineers have seen that issue a number of times, one of which was with a customer of mine when that customer hit the CritSit button.  Obligingly, I escalated after I spent an hour or so stumped as to what happened since I was told that no changes were made. They chose to escalate with good reason though, as their environment ... [More]

I was creating a secure baseline build for our organization’s Windows Server 2003 member and application servers and at the time I was working on locking down unneeded services.  Messenger service?  Yea, let’s disable that.  Alerter service?  Disable.  DHCP Client service?  These are member servers which are statically configured so no need for that.  Disable it.  Oops…guess we do need that service after all.  As you know - better ... [More]