IT Administration


New Equipment Improves Emergency Communications Post-Katrina

Some boats searching the flood waters left by Hurricane Katrina were crowded with survivors. Others had plenty of room. And whenever a packed boat came upon a rooftop with more stranded people, there was no way to radio one of the empty boats to come help.

Citrix and Microsoft To Collaborate on 'Branch Office Appliance'

Microsoft and Citrix Systems announced this week they are collaborating to jointly produce and market a so-called "appliance" aimed at serving branch offices.

The Case of the Vanishing Tooltips

Keep your Taskbar tooltips visible with this batch file.

IDC: 2Q Sales Growth Up for Volume Servers

The good news for hardware vendors is that growth in revenues for so-called "volume servers" -- servers that cost $25,000 or less -- continued to grow in the second quarter.

Visually Appealing

Setting the visual effects options in Windows Explorer per user

Future of Wireless Communications: Blimps?

Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on the ground and expensive satellites in space.

Scripting Basics for Virtual Server 2005 R2

Simplify administration of your virtual machines through scripting.

Uninstall Your Junk

Prepare for Longhorn's arrival by cleaning out unnecessary software and services.

Poor Man’s SRM

Here’s a script that can locate unauthorized files in a user’s home folder.

ForestPrep Failure

DCDIAG comes to the rescue, as usual, when diagnosing some strange ForestPrep problems occurring during an upward migration.

IBM Acquisition Aimed at Microsoft?

As the competition for information management and control platforms heats up, IBM announced late this week that it will acquire content management vendor FileNet in a deal valued at $1.6 billion in cash.

Access Token Commotion

What's really in that access token?

An Admin Impersonating a User

Running scripts while logged on as a domain user: Can it be done?

LogMeIn Acquires Applied Networking

In hopes of complimenting its suite of remote access and support services, LogMeIn has purchased Applied Networking, Inc., a small developer of “instant” virtual private networking (VPN) services.

Researchers: ‘Systemic' Wireless Vulnerability Affects Macs, PCs

Some computers with wireless Internet capabilities are vulnerable to attacks that could expose passwords, bank account details and other sensitive information even if the machines aren't actually online, researchers said in Las Vegas Wednesday.

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