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I just finished a grueling recording session at 2:00 AM focusing on nothing but what Windows Server 2008 provides in the way of monitoring and diagnostics tools. This is by no means exhaustive, since Microsoft usually releases plenty of out-of-band goodies...
I have amassed more than 2000 scripts over the years, mostly writing one-off solutions to various "problems". One of those I ran across recently was one that performs diagnostic reporting on domain controllers in an AD environment. It comprises two parts...