Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000/XP/NT Administrator Knowledge Base

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 19 Jan. 2006
• Section: Customization

In a previous tip I showed how you can open Internet Explorer by using the batch file e.bat from a command line... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 18 Jan. 2006
• Section: Security

Want to right-click on a .msi file and select Run As? Here's how!... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 17 Jan. 2006
• Section: Security

Group Policy can be a minefield and some policy settings are best left unchanged... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 12 Jan. 2006
• Section: IE and Explorer

Here's a simple way you can run Internet Explorer from the command line... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 10 Jan. 2006
• Section: Admin

I run my main workstation as an ordinary domain user, but I frequently need to perform administrator tasks with it too... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 5 Jan. 2006
• 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?... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 4 Jan. 2006
• Section: Network and Security

While conventional wisdom is that Administrator accounts should have long, complex passwords, this is not always so... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 3 Jan. 2006
• Section: Admin

How to save disk space on SYSVOL when you have lots of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) for your domain... Read More

• by Chris Sanders
• Published on 22 Dec. 2005
• Section: Security

Occasionally there are sites that we as domain administrators need to allow pop-ups for across the board. This tip shows how to do this with Group Policy... Read More

• by Mitch Tulloch
• Published on 21 Dec. 2005
• Section: Security

There may be times when you want to check the Local Group Policy Settings on a desktop machine... Read More