Admin Tools

If you have a Windows Server 2008 box in a workgroup that you require access to one of the admin shares, it can be a little more complicated than with Server 2003. In my case, we had a SQL server on the back end which was trying to access the web server in the DMZ using PSExec.exe to remotely run a process. Executing PSExec and passing the correct credentials failed with “Access is Denied”.

We run to monitoring systems where I work, the first is HP SIM and the second is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Currently, they and their databases all reside on a single rather battered server, “MONITOR1”.

I’ve installed a new SQL Server 2008 server “SQL1” on Windows Server 2008 to take some of the load, and take advantage of the 64-bit OS and SQL installation.

Both servers are part of the domain “DOMAIN”

So, you’ve installed a new server with Server 2008 R2 Core – what next? Logging on, you’re presented with a shiny command prompt, you can run notepad or regedit…but aside from that, where do you go from there? In the next few series of posts I’ll hopefully point out the basics, and some not so basics!

I’m going to look at some management tasks – the bread and butter of being a Windows admin.

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        <span class="co1"><font size="2" color="#808080">REM RegisterAdminPak.cmd</font></span>
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        <span class="co1"><font size="2" color="#808080">REM (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</font></span>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=adprop.dll azroles.dll azroleui.dll ccfg95.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% certadm.dll certmmc.dll certpdef.dll certtmpl.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% certxds.dll cladmwiz.dll clcfgsrv.dll clnetrex.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% cluadmex.dll cluadmmc.dll cmproxy.dll cmroute.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% cmutoa.dll cnet16.dll debugex.dll dfscore.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% dfsgui.dll dhcpsnap.dll dnsmgr.dll domadmin.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% dsadmin.dll dsuiwiz.dll imadmui.dll lrwizdll.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% mprsnap.dll msclus.dll mstsmhst.dll mstsmmc.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% nntpadm.dll nntpapi.dll nntpsnap.dll ntdsbsrv.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% ntfrsapi.dll rasuser.dll rigpsnap.dll rsadmin.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% rscommon.dll rsconn.dll rsengps.dll rsjob.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% rsservps.dll rsshell.dll rssubps.dll rtrfiltr.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% schmmgmt.dll tapisnap.dll tsuserex.dll vsstskex.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% w95inf16.dll w95inf32.dll winsevnt.dll winsmon.dll</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">set</font></span> <span class="re1">filelist</span>=%<span class="re2">filelist</span>% winsrpc.dll winssnap.dll ws03res.dll</font>
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        <font size="2">&nbsp;</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw1"><font color="#a1a100">for</font></span> %%i <span class="kw1"><font color="#a1a100">in</font></span> <span class="br0"><font color="#66cc66">(</font></span>%<span class="re2">filelist</span>%<span class="br0"><font color="#66cc66">)</font></span> <span class="kw1"><font color="#a1a100">do</font></span> <span class="br0"><font color="#66cc66">(</font></span></font>
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        <font size="2">&nbsp;<span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">echo</font></span> Registering %%i &hellip;</font>
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        <font size="2">&nbsp;regsvr32 /s %%i</font>
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        <span class="br0"><font size="2" color="#66cc66">)</font></span>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">echo</font></span>.</font>
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        <font size="2"><span class="kw3"><font color="#000066">Echo</font></span> Command Completed</font>
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