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• How to easily calculate your system availability (uptime).

  We all have managers and ALL managers love that little word called metrics, and ALL managers like to know that their service has 99.99% uptime. So how can you easily get this information off a Windows server? Well there is a simple tool out there called... Posted Apr 24 2007, 01:39 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, Business up front, Windows 2003, Vista and Lognhorn, Metrics

• Sync a partition from one DC to another DC when they don't have a direct replication link. And other Repadmin fun...

  REPADMIN /ADD I've shown you the beauty of REPADMIN /REPLSUM * /BYSRC /BYDEST /SORT:ERROR to easily find out the largest replication deltas in your forest. Lets take a look at a couple of other things you can do with repadmin, that I use quite a bit.... Posted Apr 20 2007, 06:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Active Directory, Windows, AD, Business up front, Windows 2003, DS

• Did you know there is live noninvasive debugging?

  Say you want to check something out in KD but you don't have a debugger attached, like !vm perhaps, or you want to attach to a user mode process like LSASS and dump the threads running and their current state? Well there's is solution, obviously everything... Posted Apr 13 2007, 02:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Windows, Business up front, Windows 2003, Vista and Lognhorn, debugging, XP

• Storport update rolls a lot of changes into one package for Win2k3

  KB 932755 was released recently and contains many changes to the Storport driver for better reliability and performance. If you've been seeing issues with Storport it might not be a bad idea to check out this article and see if your symptoms match up... Posted Apr 12 2007, 10:34 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows, Business up front, Windows 2003, 2003