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Connecting to multiple remote desktops from a single console

For a couple of times now I have seen a number of people doing remote desktops and they tend to navigate from one remote desktop window to another. Switching back and forth in a couple of windows sometimes is unproductive to some, and for me it just leaves clutter on my desktop. 

I just want to share a tool called Remote Desktops that allows you to connect to multiple remote desktops from a single MMC console.

In here are more screenshots and some features that i liked : Connecting to multiple remote desktops from a single console

Backing up Windows Server 2008 DNS Zone Files

This will be quick and sweet. Last night someone asked me to turn re-use an old server from having a catalog installed to just hosting primary DNS zones. So before I make this Active directory integrated DNS server to just a primary or do anything worthwhile I wanted to backup the zones. Well how?

First stop the DNS service by doing this command at the cmd prompt “net stop "DNS Server"

Next, just create a separate copy of the “%WinDir%\System32\dns” in my case C:\Windows\System32\dns directory that contains flat files (text files) of your zones. There are also some samples inside this directory, not required to be included.

Lastly is start the DNS service again by doing “net start "DNS Server"

To restore it just stop the DNS service, copy your backup back to the above directory then start the DNS service again and the zones are restored :D

I found my first hint on how to do this here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd392269(WS.10).aspx

Well, that’s it! Back to my deadlines, cheers!

PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V at codeplex

PowerShell management Library for Hyper-V
A project to provide a PowerShell management library for Hyper-V
It does pretty much what it says. Note that a lot of the information available from Hyper-V is only available if Powershell is running with Elevated privilege
At present there are 80 functions in the library, some of these are worker functions which are not expected to be called directly, the others are listed below.

Download it here: http://pshyperv.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=21642

Security Audit Events for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (Excel Download)

I was helping a friend over some events of their company’s Windows Servers, upon searching the event ID’s we saw this from Keith Combs blog: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3a15b562-4650-4298-9745-d9b261f35814