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2011) Introduction to Shadow Copies of Shared Folders
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
243 K Word doc - Shadow Copies of Shared Folders helps alleviate data loss by creating shadow copies of files or folders that are stored on network file shares at predetermined time intervals. A shadow copy is essentially a previous version of the file or folder at a specific point in time.
2012) How To Quickly Check If Newly Created GPO Replicated To All Domain Controllers?
Date - Mar 25, 2009
Rating - 2
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Active Directory
This article explains a quick tip to check whether a newly created GPO replicated to all the Domain Controllers for that domain or not.
2013) How To Install and Configure Speech Recognition in Windows XP ( Q306537 )
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Customization
2014) How To Know The Primary Member of A SYSVOL Replica Set?
Date - Nov 06, 2008
Rating - 2
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Admin
This article explains how to determine the Primary Member of a SYSVOL Replica Set in an Active Directory domain.
2015) How to Lock Down Windows NT and Internet Explorer 4.01 Desktop
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Customization
2016) IIS supports e-mail solution using SMTP to transmit and deliver Internet mail.
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - IIS
2017) Microsoft VM and ActiveX Bug in IE
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Explorer
2018) Migrating Windows NT Server 4.0 Domains to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory3
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Migration
309 KB Microsoft Word file
2019) Manually Delete Print Shares or Printers
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Print
2020) Managing Office 2007 with Group Policy
Date - Jun 10, 2008
Rating - 2
Author - Chris Sanders
Section - Applications
Office 2007 provides some great new ways to be managed via group policy. Here is what you have to do to utilize those.
2021) Machine Account Password Changes
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Password
2022) Group Policy in a Workgroup Environment
Date - Jun 01, 2005
Rating - 2
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Network
Using Group Policy in a workgroup setting.
2023) Guidelines for configuring and managing a multi-OS environment
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Booting
2024) Group Policy Offers New Functionality in Windows Server 2008
Date - May 12, 2009
Rating - 2
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Active Directory
This article explains the improvements to the Group Policy in Windows Server 2008.
2025) Getting past the size limit for roaming profiles
Date - May 03, 2007
Rating - 2
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Networking
How to enable really big roaming user profiles if needed i.e. roam a lot of stuff.
2026) FTP Resources
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
2027) HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Registry
2028) HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Registry
2029) Hide IIS Script Code
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - IIS
2030) How Global Name Zones Work In Windows Server 2008?
Date - Jan 14, 2009
Rating - 2
Author - Nirmal Sharma
Section - Network
This article shows the steps included when resolving a name in DNS Server running on Windows Server 2008.
2031) How to Add a Control Panel Tool to a Category ( Q292463 )
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Utilities
2032) How big should Windows NT paging file be?
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Miscellaneous
2033) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Registry
2034) How to Configure IP RIP Route Filters with SP4
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
2035) How to Create and Copy Roaming User Profiles
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
2036) How to Customize the Maximum Connections Message with FTP
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
How to Customize the Maximum Connections Message with FTP using registry value MaxClientsMessage.
2037) How to Debug a User Mode Crash Dump with Windbg
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - TroubleShooting
2038) FireWire IEEE 1394
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Network
2039) Finding Service Dependencies
Date - Jan 02, 2007
Rating - 2
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Section - Admin
How to use sc.exe to find service dependencies
2040) Enable Quick Edit Mode in Windows 2000 Command Shell
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2
Author - Wayne Maples
Section - Command shell

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