Opinion


Analyze Your Baseline Security

MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.

Install Help Files from Other Operating Systems

Having this information at your finger tips will let you switch from one OS's help to any other.

Delegating Rights

You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.

What's Your Level?

Maturity in management comes at different stages.

The Hidden Risks of Process Controls

These networks aren’t well known by many, yet they’re responsible for controlling much in our lives. And they’re not very secure.

Renewal Notice

Are you past due?

Optimizing Exchange Memory Usage

How Exchange 2000 is like your two-year-old.

Seriously, Least Access

Run legacy apps without hitting the security barrier.

Server Coexistence

Who gave this reader the silly idea that Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 can't live within the same domain?

The Island Effect

Reader has trouble with DCs looking within when doing DNS lookups.

Security, Security, Security

Ports are a good way in, and often remain unchecked.

Event Log Dissection

You can use a script to compile log info into a file for closer examination.

How PowerPoint Is Like Melvin

Why some things--and people--are just unlikable.

14 Reasons To Reconsider Software Restrictions

Software Restriction Policies is a terrific new security tool—if you know what it can’t do, as well as what it can.

Reality Bites

How does outsourcing--or how will it--affect you?

Making the Connection

Using the Active Directory Connector is an effective way to move your legacy Exchange environment to a new Exchange 2003 setup.

Remote Shutdown

This script allows logoff and shut down of remote users.

Anonymous User Control; Magic of RPC; Storm Stories; more

Disaster Recovery, or Just Disaster?

Simple IIS backup techniques

Managing User Profiles Your Way

Better methods for managing user profiles en masse. Plus, an SBS problem.