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661) Monitor and capture all text a program writes to the screen: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security
662) Missing Computers in the WSUS Console: Date - Apr 16, 2008; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; One of the more frustrating problems I have run into when deploying WSUS is when computers simply do not show up in the console. Here is the most common solution to this problem.
663) Moving the system hard drive to another computer: Date - Jun 09, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; How to move the system hard drive of a computer running Windows Vista to a new computer without generating a Stop message.
664) Limit the total number of users who can log onto NT Server: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
665) LDAP and Exchange port conflict: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
666) Issues using Windows Server 2008 as a workstation OS: Date - Sep 23, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Some users like to run a server OS such as Windows Server 2008 on their workstations. This tip describes some of the issue you may encounter when you do this.
667) Managing devices on XP desktops: Date - Jan 05, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Customization; Managing devices on XP desktops requires admin-level credentials, but what if your users don't have such credentials and yet you want to let them manage their own devices?
668) Managing Windows Servers with Windows 7: Date - Jun 23, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; Windows 7 does not inherently come with the ability to manage your Windows servers. This tip will tell you what you need in order to be able to manage everything from your Windows 7 desktop.
669) Lockdown right-click on the Start Button: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
670) Make Notepad Wordwrap: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Customization
671) Windows Freeware and Commercial Personal Firewalls for SOHO Small Office and Home: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network and Security
672) Windows ICF: Can't Live With it, Can't Live Without it: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network and Security
673) Windows Server Backup and New Features In Windows Server 2008: Date - Apr 28, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article list of new features added to the Windows Server Backup tool in Windows Server 2008.
674) Windows NT FTP Server: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
675) Windows NT Administrative Toolset(aka AINTX): Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Utilities
676) Windows NT Retirement Cycle: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
677) Using Users to Test Patches: Date - Sep 15, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; You can use your own users to test patches for client OSes and applications, if you do it the right way.
678) W2K Time Synchronization Service: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
679) Vista's Setup log: Date - Aug 23, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Administration; How to disable Vista's Setup log
680) When to use GPT disks: Date - May 21, 2009; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Misc; When you should choose GPT disks over MBR.
681) When Delegation Doesn't Seem to Take: Date - Dec 09, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Sometimes you delegate a task to a user, and then later on they can't perform that task. Why?
682) Which Service Is Responsible To Register A and PTR Records In DNS?: Date - Dec 22, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains the service which is responsible to register DNS Records on behalf of client computers. This tip applies to Windows 7 also.
683) Who changed Administrator password?: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
684) Why Upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003: Date - Aug 23, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 250 KB Microsoft Word file - Windows Server 2003 provides many new tools, services, and features that make a compelling case for upgrading from Microsoft Windows NT® Server 4.0. This white paper explains the overall benefits of upgrading and addresses the significant management and cost saving benefits provided by the Active Directory® service. The rest of the paper examines enhancements in key server roles.
685) XP commandline registry tool: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Command shell
686) Xwindows mouse functionality: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Hardware; NT support for mouse Xwindows autoraise and snapto functionality.
687) XP : speedup access to network shares: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network and Security
688) XP Time Synchronization: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.9; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
689) Windows 2000 disable link state detection for TCP/IP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.9; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
690) Why do we still need WINS?: Date - Jul 11, 2006; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Why do we still need WINS servers on AD networks?