Are you still creating users’ accounts manually? I suggest you start teaching yourself how to automate the creation of user accounts in Windows environments. A sample script prepared by Joseph Moody at windows7library.com/blog will give you a head start. These are the steps you need to take to become more efficient and pro on your job!... Read More
Microsoft has released a tool that helps you check whether your computer supports Windows 8 or not. Let alone, the sales pitch behind this tool, I would just run it for compatibility reasons before taking any decisions to upgrade my system. It might save you a lot of trouble afterwards!... Read More
How to manage distribution groups using an Exchange Online user in a hybrid deployment... Read More
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Windows Server 2012 has been released and many questions about the software have been answered. But there was still one question that was looming; when is the tech industry planning to integrate Windows Server into their network? To answer this question, Firebrand surveyed over a thousand Technology companies and created an Info-graphic to share the results: Read more here -... Read More
Did you know that using your Windows 7 platform and subscribing to a free online storage account you could easily create a secure online backup solution for free? Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate editions allow you to use BitLocker to encrypt data; the encrypted data can be uploaded to a free cloud storage location for safe keeping. Check how to... Read More
This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. For a test lab based on physical computers, you can image the drives for future test labs. For a test lab based on virtual machines, you can create snapshots of the base... Read More
There are always lessons to learn from major incidents. For instance, outages like the one that the global hosting provider GoDaddy has suffered yesterday should remind us of how best online resources are deployed! A must-read RFC about the selection and operation of secondary DNS servers defines the best practices to set up a secondary DNS server for your domain... Read More
The widely used fingerprint readers and software pre-installed on laptops sold by major vendors like Dell, Sony, and at least 14 others contains a serious weakness that exposes Windows passwords in seconds. Hackers are able to quickly recover account passwords if your laptop uses software from UPEK, according to security researchers. Apparently, laptops equipped with UPEK fingerprint readers and running... Read More