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841) How to change membership in groups based on attributes of users in AD automatically: Date - Jun 01, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Rostislav Soukup; Section - Active Directory; If your company has a complicated structure, you may need to filter members of your security or distribution groups automatically based on changes to some attribute of users in Active Directory – let's say Department.
842) Web-based AD management: Date - May 31, 2006; Rating - 2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; A web-based interface to Active Directory you should know about.
843) When was Windows installed on this machine?: Date - May 31, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to find when Windows was installed on a computer.
844) Preventing users from Modifying Group Policy Settings: Date - May 30, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to prevent users from modifying Group Policy.
845) Event log retention: Date - May 26, 2006; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; How to configure event log retention in Windows Vista.
846) Pruning Old Computer Accounts in AD: Date - May 25, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; In large organizations the task of keeping Active Directory cleansed of inactive computer accounts can be daunting. Here are a few ways to ease the process.
847) Which version am I running?: Date - May 24, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to find the version of a program, OS or FPSE.
848) Disk Write Caching: Date - May 23, 2006; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How and why to disable disk write caching.
849) Installing the Windows Server 2003 Network Monitor: Date - May 18, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; The Windows Server 2003 Network Monitor is a very useful tool for network monitoring and troubleshooting. Here is how to install it.
850) Avoiding Disk Space Waste: Date - May 17, 2006; Rating - 3.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to avoid wasting space on NTFS volumes by modifying the default cluster size.
851) Disabling Remote Desktop: Date - May 16, 2006; Rating - 3.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to prevent users from enabling Remote Desktop on their machines.
852) Configuring FTP user isolation with AD integration: Date - May 11, 2006; Rating - 2.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Great little tool for configuring FTP user isolation with AD integration.
853) Avoiding Legacy Built-in Groups: Date - May 10, 2006; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; How you can avoid using legacy built-in groups to grant admin-level privileges.
854) List of services: Date - May 09, 2006; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Generating a quick list of services running on a machine.
855) Disabling the WZC Service to Solve Random Wireless Disconnects: Date - May 04, 2006; Rating - 2.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; It is not uncommon for users to report their wireless clients dropping connection at random times. Here is how to cure the most common cause of this.
856) Directory listings in alternate shell: Date - May 03, 2006; Rating - 1.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to stop a command from executing in a command shell opened with alternate credentials.
857) Managing Windows Images: Date - May 03, 2006; Rating - 2.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Utilities; Tip concerning a product to help you manage images for deployment.
858) Managing the automatic To-list: Date - May 02, 2006; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Outlook and Outlook Express; How to remove clutter from the automatic To-list in Outlook.
859) Troubleshooting WSUS: Date - May 02, 2006; Rating - 1.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to troubleshoot WSUS when clients can't download and install patches.
860) Free up disk space: Date - Apr 28, 2006; Rating - 2.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to free up disk space used by System Protection in Windows Vista.
861) Scripting Printer Installation with PrintUI.dll: Date - Apr 27, 2006; Rating - 2.3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Printer installation can be made into a scripting process very easily by use of the PrintUI DLL. Here is how to do it.
862) Virtualization and Viruses: Date - Apr 26, 2006; Rating - 1.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to protect your virtual machines without degrading performance.
863) Can't shut down from command line: Date - Apr 25, 2006; Rating - 4.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Utilities; How to resolve a problem when using the shutdown.exe command when logged on with non-admin credentials.
864) Using the DHCPLOC Utility: Date - Apr 20, 2006; Rating - 2.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - DHCP and DNS; The DHCPLOC utility can come in handy in a variety of situations. Here are some of those.
865) Pagefiles--to wipe or not to wipe: Date - Apr 19, 2006; Rating - 3.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Discusses whether setting Group Policy to wipe a pagefile at shutdown is a good or bad idea.
866) Troubleshooting Roaming Profiles: Date - Apr 18, 2006; Rating - 3.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - TroubleShooting; How to resolve problems arising from user profiles not being properly unloaded during logoff.
867) Using Netsh to Backup and Restore Network Configuration: Date - Apr 13, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; When you change your network configuration often it may make the process more efficient to backup your commonly used network settings so you can restore them in a much faster process by using the Netsh utility.
868) Naming Network Connections: Date - Apr 12, 2006; Rating - 3.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Take a moment to name your network connections appropriately and save yourself time when troubleshooting later on.
869) Disabling Caching of Failed DNS Lookups: Date - Apr 11, 2006; Rating - 3.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How to prevent caching of failed DNS lookups from preventing you from having DNS name queries resolved.
870) Who's logged on?: Date - Apr 06, 2006; Rating - 3.1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; How to tell who's currently logged on to an Active Directory domain.