Systems Administration
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Security Steps: Restricted Groups Policies
Restricted groups policies allow you to control the membership of sensitive groups through Active Directory.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Security Steps:Use Syskey on Windows 7 to encrypt the SAM to stop someone resetting the local admin password on a netbook
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Get Updates on Microsoft Updates
Here's a VBScript script that details how many Microsoft updates are installed and the date of the most recently installed update on Windows XP machines.
Windows IT Pro
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Brandon Jones
Monitor Network Connections with Pingmon
Rather than spending money on a commercial program or digging through huge ping logs, you can use the Pingmon script to monitor your network connections.
Windows IT Pro
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Bill Aycock
File Sync, Backup, and the Pauli Effect
Synchronizing files seems more complex than it appears--or is it?
Windows IT Pro
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Caroline Marwitz
Protect AD from Administrative Errors
We all know that mistakes happen, but in AD, they can be disastrous. Here's how you can help prevent mistakes in a production environment instead of just reacting to them.
Windows IT Pro
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James R. Day
Log Manager Roundup
Event log managers can simplify your life by helping you monitor and manage your event logs, find specific events, and generate reports.
Windows IT Pro
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Lance Whitney
WSUS, Server 2008 R2 and BranchCache
You can use BranchCache in branch offices rather than deploying another WSUS server for Windows 7 branch office clients.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Security Steps: How to block the installation of the Chrome Frame add-on for Internet Explorer
Google has released Chrome Frame to extend IE to support Google Wave. You can use group policy add-on management functionality if your organization wants to block this add-on.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Security Steps: Firing a Systems Administrator
You would be amazed how many organizations forget to disable a fired admin's user account.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
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[September 16, 2009]
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What Applications Are Installed on the Computers in Your Network?
If you often need to identify the software that's installed on the computers in your network, here's a PowerShell script you can use to easily audit one or more computers.
Windows IT Pro
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Bill Stewart
ScriptLogic and New Boundry Release New Product Versions
Prism Suite 10 and Desktop Authority 8 are available now. Both add new features to their management capabilities.
Windows IT Pro
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Zac Wiggy
Microsoft Virtualization: Can It Compete With VM?
Before heading off to VMworld, I'm virtualizing my servers--with Microsoft.
Windows IT Pro
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Paul Thurrott
Q: Does Microsoft provide a mechanism to restrict which administrators can manage a particular Hyper-V virtual machine (VM)? I want to make sure that VM administrators can only manage their VMs and can't touch the parent partition.
Windows IT Pro
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Jan De Clercq
In five years all browsers will block internet advertisements by default.
One of the biggest pro-Firefox arguments that you’ll read on the Internet involves blocking advertising using Adblock Plus. Eventually all browsers will include this feature by default.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Windows Hardware Assessment
Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to create a hardware inventory and to document your computers' configurations.
Windows IT Pro
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Craig Zacker
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Things that you should think about before firing a systems administrator.
Organizations should have a procedure in place to ensure that if they do need to let a systems administrator go, the amount of damage that can be done is minimized.
Windows IT Pro
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Orin Thomas
Kace and Bomgar Announce Partnership
Systems management appliance vendor Kace Systems and remote support specialist Bomgar have inked a technology-sharing and marketing partnership.
Windows IT Pro
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Jeff James
Six SharePoint Potholes
Potholes in the road to implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) can cause an implementation to go in the wrong direction, slow down, or even come to a stop. Here's what you need to know to avoid them.
Windows IT Pro
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Dan Holme
Where to Get the Scoop on SharePoint's User Profiles
Want to learn more about SharePoint user profiles? Start with these resources.
Windows IT Pro
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Dan Holme
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