Today I passed exam:
70-649 “TS: Upgrading Your MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, Technology Specialist” with 925 points… =)

A lot of questions about IIS 7.0 and they were easy… There were some questions about the new Terminal Services features, I didn’t get , so I have to work on that. And 1 question about ip v6, I guessed. Thats something i really have to look into.

Thats 1 down, 2 to go to become a enterprise administrator 2008.

Wanna know if a particular service principal name is registered?

Add the following command to a batch file (called something like “get-spns.bat”) and you get a list of SPN’s registered with a given name and which account is associated with the SPN.

ldifde -f spns.txt -s domaincontroller -r "(|(msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo=*%1*)(servicePrincipalName=*%1*))" -l msDS-AllowedToDelegateTo,servicePrincipalName

usage: get-spns.bat servername/hostheader

open up the created spns.txt and voila.

Some times I check if my applications are still using the proper application pools (I am not the only administrator of the IIS servers ). You can do this with the IIS GUI ofcourse but you can also use scripting (checking a lot of servers/application and application pools can be a pain in the !@#$%). So I created a little script to do that. Read the rest of this entry

Ever wondered if the assemblies your developers gives you to install on a production server are from a release build? You can make a little C# console application to check this.

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