Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better.
- By Bill Boswell
- May 04, 2004
This business owner’s thin-client Windows network was impregnable. Or so he thought, until he met Bob…
- By Kevin Kohut
- May 01, 2004
MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.
You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.
- By Chris Brooke
- May 01, 2004
Who gave this reader the silly idea that Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 can't live within the same domain?
- By Bill Boswell
- April 20, 2004
Software Restriction Policies is a terrific new security tool—if you know what it can’t do, as well as what it can.
- By Roberta Bragg
- April 01, 2004
Using the Active Directory Connector is an effective way to move your legacy Exchange environment to a new Exchange 2003 setup.
- By Bill Boswell
- April 01, 2004
Knowing what’s in your Event Logs is a key to knowing what your servers are doing. Here’s how to make sense of them.
- By Derek Melber
- April 01, 2004
This script allows logoff and shut down of remote users.
- By Don Jones
- April 01, 2004
Sure, you can do Knowledge Base searches online. But there’s plenty more that TechNet offers.
- By Al Valvano
- April 01, 2004
Simple IIS backup techniques
- By Don Jones
- March 26, 2004
A slap-dash solution for transferring profiles in toto. Anyone with a more elegant method?
- By Bill Boswell
- March 16, 2004
The File Replication Service (FRS) has a justifiably bad reputation for bugginess and indecipherable logs. But recent changes from Redmond make it worth another look.
- By Gary Olsen
- March 01, 2004
Buying new servers and more direct-attached disks solves short-term storage issues but creates a bigger problem—the storage management nightmare. Network attached storage, which separates disks from servers, is one answer. We evaluate three top NAS solutions running Windows Storage Server.
- By Chris Wolf
- March 01, 2004
Learn how to properly manage admin accounts.
- By Don Jones
- March 01, 2004