By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 01/30/2008
There are many ways to find the hotfixes installed on a computer, but the fastest and simplest way is to use the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool. With ...
By Mark Minasi, 01/30/2008
The Cipher command-line tool can help you get a handle on key management and recovery—essential to any EFS user.
By B. K. Winstead, 01/30/2008
Email-archiving solutions can provide better performance for your mail servers and offer many different storage, search, and compliance options. This buyer's guide can help you ...
By Dan Holme, 01/30/2008
For this server side of the equation. I’ll look at the physical namespace (i.e., folders and permissions), the SMB namespace (i.e., shares), and the DFS namespace that will give ...
By John Green, 01/30/2008
This scalable KVM-over-IP switch promises the ability to remotely manage geographically distributed IT equipment, but it comes up short in ease of use.
By Paul Robichaux, 01/30/2008
Learn about password caching and why your users' cell phones, not OMA, is likely the culprit.
By John Savill, 01/30/2008
Although there are tools you can use to extract MSI files, you can also use the command line. Here's how.
By Paul Thurrott, 01/30/2008
Late adopter of Vista? In case you were waiting for Vista SP1, it's a traditional service pack—get the inside skinny on update and hotfix details from Paul.
By Editors, 01/30/2008
Readers have pointed remarks about Microsoft’s Who Are You program, a custom logon-tracking solution, and the notion of IT as a career choice for your kids.
By Eric B. Rux, 01/30/2008
This comparison of two endpoint-security products will give you a good idea of this increasingly important market and help you take back control of all your vulnerable entry ...
By Russell Smith, 01/30/2008
Windows Server 2008 introduces Server Core, which dispenses with the GUI for a leaner, more secure system. A few basic commands will get you going with this new OS version.
By Karen Forster, 01/30/2008
Microsoft’s Windows Essential Business Server provides a simplified interface for setup, migration, and licensing in midsized companies.
By John Savill, 01/30/2008
If you're wondering about the Msocache folder that you've discovered on your computer, read what it is and why it's there.
By Darren Mar-Elia, 01/30/2008
Ensure that Group Policy lives up to its potential—here's a primer about how GPOs are processed, how permissions and filtering work, and basic troubleshooting.
By Jeff James, 01/30/2008
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Infortrend's EonStor B12S-R/G1030 SAS-to-SAS and B12F-R/G1430 FC-to-SAS arrays
By John Savill, 01/30/2008
WDS must create a computer account in AD in the Computers container to be able to approve devices. Follow these steps to give WDS this permission.
By Various Authors, 01/30/2008
Find out what the Msocache folder is, learn how to use a command line to extract the contents of an MSI file, and discover how Mark Russinovich tracks down the problem with an ...
By Readers, 01/30/2008
In Internet Explorer 7.0, the toolbar is above the menu bar. If you find that annoying, here's a simple registry tweak you can make to place the toolbar back under the menu bar.
By Anne Grubb, 01/30/2008
Longtime scripter Alex Angelopoulos talks about how Windows PowerShell can help remove the drudgery—and improve the speed—of performing systems management tasks.
By Eric B. Rux, 01/30/2008
Here are some other vendors that might interest you in the endpoint-security space.
By Paul Thurrott, 01/30/2008
The IT pro's IT pro offers his review of Windows Server 2008 RC1 and Windows Vista SP1 RC1.
By Robert Sheldon, 01/30/2008
This lesson walks you through how to use the Get-Help cmdlet to get the information you need to create a Get-Content command that reads a file—a common administrative task. Along ...
By Jeff James, 01/30/2008
Straight talk from readers about the products they use: Lucid8 Digiscope, Diskeeper 2008, and VMware Infrastructure 3.