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541) Using Audit Mode for Sysprep: Date - Aug 26, 2008; Rating - 1.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Here’s the who, the why and the how to use audit mode in Sysprep.
542) How To Forcefully Close A File On Remote Computer Using Command Line?: Date - Aug 24, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article explains the steps you can use to close a file forcefully on a remote computer.
543) Preventing Spyware Infections with DNS: Date - Aug 21, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; Fighting spyware on client computers within a network is a constant battle. This tip describes a technique that will help prevent certain spyware sites from being accessed.
544) A Quick Tip to configure Group Policy settings in Workgroup Security Model.: Date - Aug 20, 2008; Rating - 4.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Miscellaneous; This article will show how you can quickly configure Group Policy in Workgroup Security Model. This article applies to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
545) Pros and Cons of Disabling NTLMv1: Date - Aug 19, 2008; Rating - 3.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Is it a good idea to disable LM and NTLMv1 authentication on Windows networks and allow only NTLMv2 authentication?
546) Preparing an Existing Domain for a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller: Date - Aug 14, 2008; Rating - 3.2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; Implementing a Windows Server 2008 domain controller in your already existing Windows Server 2003 domain requires a bit of prep work. Here is what needs to be done.
547) A Quick Tip to designate a domain controller for client authentications.: Date - Aug 13, 2008; Rating - 4.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains the use of SRV priority. This applies to Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
548) Disabling Autoplay on Vista: Date - Aug 12, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; You can completely disable autoplay on Vista computers if needed.
549) How does Windows Server 2008 resolve Domain Controller Load Balancing problems: Date - Aug 07, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article discusses a new Group Policy setting which solves the Load Balancing issues with the domain controllers.
550) Indexing a Second Hard Drive on Vista: Date - Aug 05, 2008; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Search; Making sure a second hard drive is indexed in Vista requires two settings.
551) Disabling Windows Vista UAC with Group Policy: Date - Jul 31, 2008; Rating - 2.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; User Account Control is one of the premier security features for Windows Vista client systems. There may be some cases where you need it disabled. You can do this with group policy as outlined here.
552) DynamicSiteName and SiteName – Which site a client computer belongs to?: Date - Jul 30, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; If you are troubleshooting a client computer which always communicates to a domain controller in different site, you should look at the two registry entries explained in this article. This article applies to Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
553) Replacing your Vista System Drive: Date - Jul 29, 2008; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; You can use CompletePC Backup to replace your system drive with a larger drive if needed.
554) Turning on Windows features during an unattended install: Date - Jul 24, 2008; Rating - 2.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to turn on Windows features during an unattended install of Vista.
555) Migrating unattend.txt to unattend.xml: Date - Jul 23, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Here is a quick tip for migrating your XP answer files to Vista.
556) Specifying your name and organization during an unattended install of Vista: Date - Jul 22, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; You can configure your answer file to specify your name and organization during an unattended install of Vista.
557) Changing the Local Administrator Password on Domain Workstations with Group Policy: Date - Jul 17, 2008; Rating - 2.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; Windows Server 2008 Group Policy introduces a lot of flexibility in performing security tasks that often involved a bit more headache. One of these is more control of the administrator account on domain workstations.
558) How to break into registry to explore HKLM\SAM and HKLM\SECURITY keys?: Date - Jul 16, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Registry Tools; This article explains how you can use Psexec.exe to execute registry editor to explore SAM and SECURITY registry hives.
559) Specifying the target partition for unattended install of Vista: Date - Jul 15, 2008; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Here is a tip on specifying the target partition when performing an unattended install of Windows Vista.
560) Administering the Windows Firewall with Windows Server 2008 Group Policy: Date - Jul 10, 2008; Rating - 1.9; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Security; The windows firewall is now more manageable than ever with the group policy options available for it in Windows Server 2008. Here we discuss how to access these.
561) NAP Client state – Three ways to check the state.: Date - Jul 09, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Networking; This article discusses the three ways to check the NAP state on a client computer running Windows Vista and Windows XP with SP3.
562) Moving user profile location in Windows Vista: Date - Jul 08, 2008; Rating - 1.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; How to move the location where user profiles are stored in Windows Vista.
563) Checking the Location of Domain FSMO Roles: Date - Jul 03, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; Here is a quick tip to finding out where the FSMO roles for a domain are located.
564) How to tell if a computer has been sysprepped.: Date - Jul 02, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Here’s an easy way how you can tell if a computer has been sysprepped.
565) Using WSUS on a Server with Limited Disk Space: Date - Jul 01, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Most administrators are under the assumption that you need a great deal of free disk space to take advantage of WSUS. This isn’t always the case.
566) Removing the Hand from Icons of Shared Folders: Date - Jun 26, 2008; Rating - 2.6; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network and Security; How to prevent the hand from appearing on the icons of shared resources.
567) Replacing the motherboard on a Vista computer that has BitLocker enabled.: Date - Jun 24, 2008; Rating - 3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Troubleshooting; How to replace the motherboard on a Vista computer that has BitLocker enabled without losing access to your operating system and data.
568) Changing the Remote Desktop Port: Date - Jun 19, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Eric Geier; Section - Network; Changing the listening and connecting port for Windows Remote Desktop Connection.
569) Preparing a disk for an unattended install of Vista: Date - Jun 18, 2008; Rating - 1; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Deployment; Here’s a tip for preparing a disk for an unattended install of Windows Vista.
570) Promoting Server Core to a Domain Controller: Date - Jun 17, 2008; Rating - 2.3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; This quick tip will show you how to promote a Windows Server 2008 Server Core device to domain controller status.