The lesson is this:

Only ever change one thing at a time, and test thoroughly between changes, be that a change to hardware or software.

That way you will always a] be able to track and detect...

Just an idle enquiry from someone who makes a living designing installing and managing IT systems for small businesses.

What are your most important software tools for systems and network...

Sorry, but that's not a proper basis on which to conduct any form of investigation: whilst it's correct to say that the content of the dump are important it is NOT correct to say [or imply] that the...

The not so helpful answer.

In no particular order, I would pick the one that

a] delivers the required functionality

b] you already fully understand or can relatively easily learn to...

2003 Enterprise can only join 2000 domains as a member server; if you want it to become an AD DC at any point then you MUST run the 2003 versions of both \forestprep and \domainprep on the primary...

I believe that debug datestamps are in 64bit UTC format from dateline 00:00 January 1, 1601, using 100 nanosecond 'ticks' - but I could well be wrong.

How you decode one to human readable is a...