Determine the MTU Size Limits of the full path of an internet route

Can't figure out how to Activate Windows 2008 Server - If you installed from a Volume License CD, it never prompted you for the license key, so it will not activate.  Here is how to change the Product Key & then Activate the server.. easy!
(I've also included a number of other common activation stages you can "jump" to - and a shortcut on how to activate a windows 2008 core installation)

Force Windows to recheck and fix any "Windows File Protection" files - just a reminder of sfc commands

Find Windows netstat port usage by Process id/name

Just a "hack" way to fix this issue, without restarting the entire machine.

Here is the quick how-to on easily installing NLB (which is no longer installed by default in 2008)

I needed to disable AJAX on the profile pages in DNN due to a 4.8 bug, but I was using ajax in lots of other places, and didn't want to turn it off everywhere, so heres the fix.

Web Deployment Team released the Beta 1 version of the deployment tool! If you're not familiar with the tool already, it is here to help you keep sites or servers in sync with IIS6 or IIS7, as well as migrate from IIS6 to IIS7

(Switch between running 32-bit applications and 64-bit applications in IIS on a 64-bit version of Windows) Also: switch between the 32-bit version of Microsoft ASP.NET 1.1 and both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version of ASP.NET 2.0 on a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows.

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