• Book Reviews: Microsoft SharePoint 7 Feb. 2006 Mitch Tulloch

    Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful tool for enabling knowledge workers to collaborate using Office 2003 on the front-end and Windows Server 2003 on the back-end. This review looks at five helpful SharePoint books you should know about if you're looking at using SharePoint on your network.

  • Protecting Your Network Against Spoofed IP Packets 2 Feb. 2006 Brien M. Posey

    These days, the vast majority of administrators go to great lengths to protect the files on their network. Typically, elaborate firewalls are used to keep outsiders away from file servers. The files residing on those servers often lie behind an intricate permissions scheme and are often encrypted. Complex auditing mechanisms might even monitor access to files. The point is that in this day and age, most administrators take security very seriously. What you might not realize though is that all of this security can be easily undone through the simple action of a user accessing a file through legitimate means. In this article, I will show you how this is possible and what you can do to fight back.

  • Understanding the Windows 2003 Registry 31 Jan. 2006 Andrew Z. Tabona

    In this article we’ll dive into the Windows 2003 Registry and take a quick look at what it is, how you can configure it remotely and how to backup and restore it. This document is intended to be a reference that will help you to understand the core of Microsoft’s later generation operating system.

  • Dealing with a Device Driver Disaster 26 Jan. 2006 Brien M. Posey

    Invalid or corrupt device drivers can wreck havoc on a server, rendering the system unbootable in some cases. In this article, I will show you some techniques for recovering from even the worst device driver mishaps in a variety of Windows operating systems.

  • Understanding the NNTP Protocol 24 Jan. 2006 Don Parker

    Everyone knows about peer-to-peer programs such as Napster, Kazaa, amongst others. How many people though know about binary newsgroups? I would wager not many. These binary newsgroups are based on the NNTP protocol, and this protocol will be the focus of this article. Read on to learn more about NNTP!

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