Stop a Pending Windows Update Restart

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You login to a server to do some work and you are greeted by the dreaded Windows Update countdown timer.  It seems like it's picked the most inconvenient time of day when in actuality, it won't restart when the computer is locked and now that you've unlocked it, it's counting down.

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Exchange 2010 - Monitoring Mailbox Moves

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You right click on a mailbox, you select New Local Move Request, you go through the rest of the steps and then you wonder.  You can select the Move Request object to see if the process has been completed but with large mailboxes, you're left wondering how far along in the process is the move...

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Move DHCP to Another Server

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I haven't tested this on different server versions.  In this instance, I moved DHCP from a Windows 2003 Server to another Windows 2003 Server.

I've seen at least one other method which involved some command line activity but this method seems simple enough.

On both the source and the destination server, launch the DHCP Manager, right click on the server name, select:

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