Melissa Mendick

Melissa Mendick has more than 15 years of network and systems administration experience with small and midsized Windows networks. In her spare time, she enjoys helping others on various online support forums, including windowsitpro.com.

Email: melissa.mendick@gmail.com

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Set Up Printers Without GPOs

By Melissa Mendick, 05/27/2008

If you can't use GPOs for users' printer connections, you can help your users make the connections with the Add Printer Wizard, the Run command, or a shortcut on a public share.

Recommended: PMPMgr for Printer Management

By Melissa Mendick, 05/27/2008

Windows XP's System Restore

By Melissa Mendick, 08/19/2002

Learn how to use Windows XP's System Restore to recover your system and protect your data.

System Restore Registry Entries

By Melissa Mendick, 08/19/2002

Learn about registry entries that are relevant to Windows XP's System Restore.

Disabling System Restore

By Melissa Mendick, 08/19/2002

Learn how to prevent users from changing Windows XP's System Restore settings.

Top 10 XP Registry Hacks

By Melissa Mendick, 04/22/2002

Tweak XP's registry to improve performance and usability.

Avoid User-Rights Abuse

By Melissa Mendick, 10/18/2001

To ensure that users don't abuse NT's user rights, activate Use of User Rights auditing.

The 27 NT User Rights

By Melissa Mendick, 10/18/2001

Learn how to use NT's 11 standard and 16 advanced user rights to maximum advantage.

10 Steps for Replacing Your Aging PDC

By Melissa Mendick, 02/28/2001

The author shares the steps she took to replace her aging PDC with a new one, all without the help of a BDC.

White Papers

Get your Windows 7 deployment off to the right start by implementing PC lockdown. A locked-down environment is easier and cheaper to support since users are less likely to make unnecessary changes to the core system configuration - read more here!

Essential Guides

Is your iSCSI "lossy"? The reality is that most off-the-shelf Ethernet hardware deployed for iSCSI can lose packets, resulting in slow performance or application downtime. Learn how to assess your current iSCSI infrastructure and engineer an advanced iSCSI SAN infrastructure.

Web Seminars

What's the best way to keep your network safe from malware? In this web seminar, security expert Greg Shields suggests an alternative method to the traditional blacklisting approach that is common with anti-virus and anti-malware solutions.

eLearning Series

We bring the experts direct to you to share their real-world perspective and expertise. During each event, three sessions stream in real time, so you can learn, ask questions, and get solutions.
Upcoming event: Getting the Most with Exchange 2010 with Paul Robichaux