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Windows Advisor
File Permissions Thru Group Policy
October 13, 2008
Reader wants to make it easy to set file permissions on a folder.
by Zubair Alexander
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Better GPO Backups
September 29, 2008
Use your downtime productively and check that your GPO backups are up to snuff.
by Greg Shields
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What's in Greg's RSS Reader?
September 8, 2008
Greggo's best practices include visting these sites for the latest news and gossip on Microsoft IT issues.
by Greg Shields
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Security That Looks Good on Paper
July 21, 2008
Microsoft's Security Assessment Tool offers a comprehensive lesson in what security processes are working -- and not working -- in your systems.
by Greg Shields
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Prof. PowerShell
The Old Local Admin
July 16, 2008
Short of learning .NET, here's a way to script something against the ADSI to find out some interesting data about the servers you're working with.
by Jeffery Hicks
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Security Watch
UCP Lets 'Em In
April 23, 2008
Plus, tracking sand out of JRE apps; greeting card hacks; RealPlayer BOV
by Russ Cooper
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TechMentor 2008 Preview: The New Group Policy Preferences
March 10, 2008
Derek Melber shows how you can eliminate logon scripts, become more secure and even save money with the new Group Policy Preferences in Vista and Windows Server 2008.
by Derek Melber
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But Really, Do you Really Need ADMX Files?
October 15, 2007
A correction...
by Greg Shields
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Do you Really Need ADMX Files?
October 1, 2007
Use 'em if your org has completely migrated to Vista or Windows 2008. Otherwise, the older, 'sans X' format files work just as well.
by Greg Shields
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Rolling Out Firefox via Active Directory
September 18, 2007
Leverage AD to roll out and update the Firefox Web browser in a Windows domain.
by Chris Wolf
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AD Objects -- Back from the Dead
July 2, 2007
Windows Server 2008 has a way of reanimating dead AD objects.
by Greg Shields
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Aiiiiieeeeee!
June 26, 2007
A small change to Windows Server 2008 can prevent most admins from making this all-too-common lament.
by Greg Shields
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Windows Tip Sheet
Net Some Users
April 11, 2007
Back to the good ol' days and the Net User command to get some info on users quickly.
by Jeffery Hicks
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Windows Tip Sheet
Take Command of GPO Processing
January 10, 2007
Apply policies throughout your network without requiring users to reboot or log off their systems.
by Jeffery Hicks
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An Inheritance You can Do Without
January 9, 2007
Here's how to check and enable permissions inheritance for user objects in AD.
by Chris Wolf
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Windows Tip Sheet
Fast GPO Backups
December 26, 2006
Back up those objects faster than a speeding bullet.
by Jeffery Hicks
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Robocopy Port Problem
December 19, 2006
Here are the ports that you’ll need to open on a firewall for Robocopy replication.
by Chris Wolf
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Piping with DSQUERY
December 18, 2006
Manually typing in FQDNs? Take the shortcut instead.
by Greg Shields
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Easy Local Group Membership Enumeration
November 14, 2006
Need to know who are members of each local administrator’s group? Here’s a script that can help.
by Chris Wolf
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No More Clicky-Clicky
November 13, 2006
Administer the ADUC through the command line tools. First up: DSADD
by Greg Shields
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Administrator Password Frightfest
October 31, 2006
Here’s one other aspect of local administrator password management that may scare you.
by Chris Wolf
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Conspiracy Theory -- Virtual Vista
October 3, 2006
Here are some of the common pitfalls with installing and running Vista and Longhorn inside of VMware VMs.
by Chris Wolf
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