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FSMO Role Placement Best Practice

So I have a bunch of domain controllers and a bunch of FSMO roles that I have to place. What do I do? Well, MS says to do the following based on their support article here which is summarized below:

Deleting Site Content Types in MOSS 2007 (Content Type in use)

I have been cleaning up our intranet portal and realized that the former admin had implemented some content types. We have streamlined how we are gathering information, and also needed to add some new content types. As soon as I started trying to delete the old ones, I quickly realized that there was more going on here than I thought. Specfically, MOSS won't let you delete a content type if a document is using it. That makes sense. So I went through my library and changed all of the documents using the old content type to the new content type. This time when I tried to delete it, same error.

Converting MS Virtual Server VMs to VMware ESX

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Mouse Issues:
Thanks to http://www.petri.co.il/forums/archive/index.php/t-19387.html I have come across a fix to some problems I ran into with the mouse.

Logfiles shortcut

Have you ever been troubleshooting IIS and need to check out the access log files? As you know by default they live at in System32\Logfiles under your Windows directory. There are plenty of ways to get there...type the path in the run dialog. Open explorer and browse there. But during a call with MS PSS the other day, I learned a handy shortcut. In the run dialog, type 'logfiles' and you will instantly open the System32\Logfiles folder. There are more logfiles here besides IIS generated ones...but that seems to be the best known.

Happy hunting, and hope this saved you some time!

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