By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 04/28/2008
Remote Desktop is an important tool for admins of remote Windows OSs, but often it's disabled on desktop systems. Fortunately, you can use one-line scripts to not only enable ...
By Darren Mar-Elia, 04/28/2008
Discerning the effective policy settings for a given user or computer can be hard, especially in larger organizations. Resultant Set of Policies cuts through the confusion and ...
By Jeff James, 04/28/2008
Removable USB flash drives pose a unique security threat to your IT infrastructure. The IronKey USB Drive tackles the problem with its security-crammed defenses.
By Robert Sheldon, 04/28/2008
PowerShell treats all strings as System.String objects. Find out how you can learn about and use this object's methods and properties.
By Eric B. Rux, 04/28/2008
This comparison of three disk defragmentors—Diskeeper’s Diskeeper 2008 Server, O&O Software’s O&O Defrag 10 Server Edition, and Raxco’s PerfectDisk 2008 Server—will help you ...
By Caroline Marwitz, 04/28/2008
Want better results from your GPO-based software deployments? Then heed the advice of LAN administrator Mike Foster, who offers pointers on using Group Policy to do such things as ...
By William Lefkovics, 04/28/2008
The evolution of PST files has brought new flexibility to email storage. But there are still caveats to consider. We show you how to best use PST files according to your unique ...
By John Savill, 04/28/2008
By default, a DC registers records for its own site. Learn how to configure a DC to also register records for an additional location.
By Editors, 04/28/2008
Check out the latest products to hit the marketplace.
By Dustin Puryear, 04/28/2008
To be able to access all AD data, you’ll need to upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.2 to OpenLDAP 2.3. Here’s how to do it on CentOS 4.3.
By Kevin Laahs, 04/28/2008
Identify users and control their access to SharePoint content with an understanding of SharePoint's security architecture.
By Readers, 04/28/2008
When Daniel discovered that some files weren't being backed up because they were open, he discovered a little-known tool named Openfiles. By running this tool through a batch ...
By Robert Sheldon, 04/28/2008
Understanding how to handle strings in PowerShell cmdlets is important. Learn when to enclose strings in quotes and whether to use single or double quotes. Also learn how to ...
By Jeff James, 04/28/2008
Readers review Microsoft SyncToy 2.0, the Strangeloops AS1000 Appliance, and the NetIQ Aegis platform.
By Paul Thurrott, 04/28/2008
Microsoft Response Point is a prepackaged IP-based PBX-type small business phone system—not your typical Microsoft software solution, relying instead on familiar-looking hardware ...
By Editors, 04/28/2008
Readers chime in about the Cipher tool, Robert Sheldon’s “PowerShell 101” series, Michael Otey’s look at Microsoft's Hyper-V thin hypervisor, and more.
By Gayle Rodcay, 04/28/2008
Choose the best antivirus protection for your environment with this evaluation of more than a dozen products.
By John Savill, 04/28/2008
Discover how this tool can optimize intersite replication.
By Karen Forster, 04/28/2008
In this exclusive interview, Microsoft's Brad Anderson and Larry Orecklin disclose groundbreaking developments from the Microsoft Management Summit regarding System Center support ...
By Paul Thurrott, 04/28/2008
Windows Live SkyDrive, Microsoft's Web-based storage service, is a rare example of the software giant beating Google to market. But is it worth it? And Office 2008 for Mac isn't ...
By Karen Forster, 04/28/2008
Microsoft’s product managers for Windows Server and Windows Client Deployment explain that customers who use Server 2008 and Vista together will benefit from improved performance, ...
By Mark Minasi, 04/28/2008
With the Computer Management console missing from Server 2008, you need an efficient way to configure your servers and roll them out. Your best bet is to go to the command line ...
By Dustin Puryear, 04/28/2008
OpenLDAP’s proxy service can help you integrate Active Directory (AD) and OpenLDAP—to authenticate your AD users in LDAP applications that use OpenLDAP or to provide access to ...
By Paul Thurrott, 04/28/2008
Microsoft released Windows Vista SP1 on a tiered scheduled, which though strange, makes perfect sense—Paul explains the reason why and reveals the actual schedule.