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631) How Can I Learn Group Policy?: Date - Jun 14, 2005; Rating - 1.6; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Need to learn how Group Policy works, what it can do, and how to implement it?
632) XP SP2 Breaks Group Policy: Date - Jun 09, 2005; Rating - 2.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Resolving an issue with adm files in XP SP2.
633) Find Out When Policy Last Applied: Date - Jun 08, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to find out when Group Policy was last applied to a remote machine.
634) Refresh Group Policy Remotely: Date - Jun 06, 2005; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to refresh Group Policy remotely from the command line.
635) Saving on administration with Thin Client Computing: Date - Jun 02, 2005; Rating - 2.8; Author - William Henderson; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; A new tool allowing you to measure the savings incurred by converting PCs to thin clients.
636) Group Policy in a Workgroup Environment: Date - Jun 01, 2005; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Using Group Policy in a workgroup setting.
637) Group Policy and Dual-Purpose Computers: Date - May 31, 2005; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Use Group Policy to manage dual-use computers.
638) Joining a Domain Securely: Date - May 26, 2005; Rating - 3.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to securely add a computer to a domain.
639) Caution with Default Domain Policy: Date - May 25, 2005; Rating - 3.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Describes best practice for using the Default Domain Policy.
640) Copying Group Policy Objects: Date - May 24, 2005; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Save time when implementing Group Policy.
641) Point At URL BEFORE You Click: Date - May 19, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; Many spam offers and phishing scams trick users into going to a web site that has nothing to do with what the URL appears to link to. Before you click, take a look at the true URL behind the link.
642) Back Up Printer Configurations: Date - May 18, 2005; Rating - 2.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Protect your print servers by backing up their printer configurations.
643) Consolidating Print Servers: Date - May 17, 2005; Rating - 2.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Save money by consolidating your print servers.
644) Manage Shadow Copies on Client Machines: Date - May 12, 2005; Rating - 2.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Utilities; Did you know you can manage shadow copies on the client side from the command line?
645) Find All Locked-Out Accounts: Date - May 12, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - TroubleShooting; Use Saved Queries to quickly locate all locked out user accounts.
646) Transferring Ownership of Files: Good or Bad?: Date - May 11, 2005; Rating - 2.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Windows Server 2003 lets you easily transfer ownership of files, but should you?
647) Understanding Site Links: Date - May 10, 2005; Rating - 2.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Site links can provide redundancy but not in the way you might think.
648) LDAP Search Tips: Date - May 05, 2005; Rating - 2.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Unleash the power of Saved Queries using this resource.
649) Remove Patch Uninstall Folders To Clean Hard Drive: Date - May 04, 2005; Rating - 3.4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Hard drives are cheap and people typically have more space than they know what to do with these days. But, that is no reason to just waste it. When you install Windows patches, hidden folders are created which contain the uninstall data. Viewing the hidden data on my computer, I found 50 or so patch uninstall folders taking up over 500 Mb of space on my drive.
650) Setting up Windows 2000 Radius to authenticate wireless 802.1x clients: Date - May 03, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Robert Vegas; Section - Security; How to set up RADIUS on Windows 2000 so you can autheticate wireless clients.
651) Prevent Exchange Log volume from running out of space: Date - Apr 28, 2005; Rating - 5; Author - Leon Funnell; Section - Exchange; Have you ever arrived at work to find the backup hasnt run over the weekend, the logs volume is out of space, and the Storage Group is off line? This little batch file will prevent this from happening by NTFS compressing the oldest logs until the free space is at an acceptable limit to run a backup.
652) Troubleshooting Universal Group Caching: Date - Apr 27, 2005; Rating - 3.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; A tip on how to troubleshoot universal group caching if it doesn't seem to be working properly.
653) Use Shortcuts To Navigate Explorer Folders: Date - Apr 26, 2005; Rating - 4.2; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Windows Explorer is a fairly functional tool for browsing files and folders and finding what you are looking for. But, depending on how large and how organized your hard drive is, it may take some time to sift through to the folder you really want. Using command line parameters, you can create desktop shortcuts that take you quickly to your most-used folders.
654) Dealing with Blue Screens: Date - Apr 21, 2005; Rating - 2.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - TroubleShooting; Handling a blue screen is more about common sense than being an uber-geek.
655) Fast Searching of Active Directory: Date - Apr 20, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Make life easier for your users by simplifying how they search for resources in Active Directory.
656) Enabling Caching of Universal Groups: Date - Apr 19, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; How to enable caching of universal groups in Windows Server 2003 and why this is useful in branch office scenarios.
657) NETBIOS: Leave On or Turn Off?: Date - Apr 14, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; NETBIOS is supposed to be no longer needed since Windows 2000, but this is not really the case.
658) Enabling Remote Desktop on a Remote Machine: Date - Apr 13, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; What if you want to use Remote Desktop on a server that's already off-site? Here's how to do it.
659) Enhance Performance by Moving the Pagefile: Date - Apr 12, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Boost performance by moving your pagefile to a separate volume.
660) Monitor Share Usage for File Server Migration: Date - Apr 07, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Leon Funnell; Section - Utilities; How to monitor share access on a file server.