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My last blog post described how to use local kernel debugging to change the colors of the Windows crash screen, also known as the “blue screen of death”. No doubt many of you thought that showing off a green screen of death or red screen of death to your...(read more)

Note: for an easier way to customize the blue screen’s colors, see my next blog post, “ Blue Screens in Designer Colors with One Click ”. Seeing a bluescreen that’s not blue is disconcerting, even for me, and based on the reaction of the TechEd audiences...(read more)

If you’ve seen one of my Case of the Unexplained presentations (like the one I delivered at TechEd Europe last month that’s posted for on-demand viewing ), you know that I emphasize how thread stacks are a powerful troubleshooting tool for diagnosing...(read more)

Michael has covered “least privilege” for AGPM before (the Active Directory team followed up with a bit more detail). However, those scenarios are for single-domains. What if you have a forest where you want to manage all the child domains using AGPM, but you don’t want to just give the AGPM service administrator privileges across your entire forest? This guide will show you how to let the AGPM functionality take root with the minimum amount of privilege for each child in your domain.

When Dave Solomon and I were writing the 3 rd edition of the Windows Internals book series Inside Windows 2000 back in 1999, we pondered if there was a way to enable kernel debuggers like Windbg and Kd (part of the free Debugging Tools for Windows package...(read more)

Tales from the Community – Deleting registry values

Here’s a quick follow-up to our last post on the existence of GPO search. One of our MVPs, Alan, has a great post up about a Group Policy Search webapp (Previously mentioned on this blog). It includes instructions on how to install a Windows Search connector – so you can use this search right from Windows Explorer!

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