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391) Use a Larger Pagefile for Better Performance: Date - Mar 24, 2005; Rating - 3.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; The default pagefile size isn't always enough for best performance, especially when you're running memory-hungry server apps.
392) Using Reservations to Ensure DHCP Server Availability and Security: Date - Mar 24, 2005; Rating - 3.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; In high security environments you can use Reservations to ensure the security and availability of DHCP servers.
393) Protect Wireless Access Using MAC Address Filters: Date - Mar 22, 2005; Rating - 4.1; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Wireless networks add a significant level of convenience for many users. The ability to roam at will and access the network without adding wires is quite useful. But, you need to do so securely. There are a number of basic steps you should take to protect your wireless network and filtering MAC addresses is one more way to secure it.
394) Disabling the RunAs Command: Date - Mar 22, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; To enhance security you can prevent users from using the RunAs command.
395) Google Yourself To Identify Security Holes: Date - Mar 15, 2005; Rating - 4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Google is very good at what it does. It automatically and systematically catalogues every document, image, web site or other data that is web accessible so that it can be quickly retrieved using the Google search engine. That includes potentially sensitive or confidential data that wasn't intended to be shared publicly. Google your own network or sites to identify possible security holes.
396) Find It Fast With Desktop Search Tools: Date - Mar 10, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Hard drive space has gotten cheaper and the size of the drives has grown to enormous proportions. That is great for saving data, but makes it increasingly difficult to find what you're looking for when you need it. Enter the desktop search tools to help solve that problem.
397) Can I convert existing PCs to thin clients?: Date - Mar 10, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - William Henderson; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; Yes you can. There is no need to have to buy thin client devices, you can simply convert old (or new) PC's to thin clients. The advantage of doing this is that you will significantly reduce management of these PC's. There are several solutions to convert PC's to thin clients:
398) Disable Enumeration of SID's: Date - Mar 08, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; One way for an attacker to scope out a target system and, particularly, to identify the Administrator account so they can focus their efforts on the account with the most privileges is to list, or enumerate, the SID's (serial identifiers) on a Windows machine.
399) Moving Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Applications to Windows Server 2003: Date - Sep 07, 2004; Rating - 2.7; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Migration; 202 KB Microsoft Word file - explains how to plan a migration strategy, and it describes how you can use various utilities and technical resources to deploy Windows Server 2003 as an application server and Web server, while minimizing disruption and additional investment.
400) Security Innovations in Windows Server 2003: Date - Aug 25, 2004; Rating - 1.9; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security; 205 KB Microsoft Word file - outlines how they facilitate business scenarios such as: building a secure Web application platform, providing secure mobile access, and streamlining identity management across the enterprise.
401) 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.
402) Coexistence of Windows Server 2003 and Windows NT 4.0: Date - Aug 23, 2004; Rating - 2.2; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 136 KB Microsoft Word file - This paper describes coexistence of Windows Server 2003 with Windows NT 4.0 in Windows NT 4.0 domains.
403) Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Security Services: Date - Aug 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security; 205 KB Microsoft Word file - 324 KB Microsoft Word file
404) Using Attack Surface Area and Relative Attack Surface Quotient to Identify Attackability of Windows Server 2003: Date - Aug 12, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security; 416 KB Adobe Acrobat file - In March 2003, Microsoft engaged the Security and Technology Solutions practice of Ernst & Young LLP to validate the Relative Attack Surface Quotient (RASQ) model developed by Microsoft, which quantifies the relative "attackability" provided by each of its operating system platforms. The model provides a methodology to compute the attackability of Microsoft Windows server operating systems by describing potential exploit points and assigning a relative vulnerability level based on exploits that occur in the real world. Ernst & Young conclude that Windows Server 2003 is the least attackable operating system Microsoft has ever released.
405) Microsoft's Technical Resources for Windows Server 2003: Date - Aug 03, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
406) Managing Terminal Servers Using MOM and SMS: Date - Aug 02, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 166 KB Microsoft Word file
407) Remote Administration of Windows Servers Using Remote Desktop for Administration: Date - Aug 01, 2004; Rating - 1.8; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 177 KB Microsoft Word file - This white paper explores the design goals and implementation of Remote Desktop in Windows Server 2003, and explains how an enterprise can use this feature to remotely manage its Windows Servers from anywhere.
408) Session Directory and Load Balancing Using Terminal Server: Date - Jul 28, 2004; Rating - 2.8; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 375 KB Microsoft Word file - This white paper discusses how to plan and deploy a load balanced terminal server farm using session directory, and how the session directory operates in a load balanced environment.
409) Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services: Date - Jul 25, 2004; Rating - 3.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 212 KB Microsoft Word file - The Terminal Services component of Windows Server 2003 builds on the solid foundation provided by the Application Server mode in Windows 2000 Terminal Services, and includes the new client and protocol capabilities in Windows XP. Terminal Services lets you deliver Windows-based applications, or the Windows desktop itself, to virtually any computing device, including those that cannot run Windows.
410) Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Capacity and Scaling: Date - Jul 03, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network; 469 KB Microsoft Word file - Microsoft Windows Terminal Server lets users run Windows®-based applications on a remote computer running one of the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. This white paper contains testing methodologies, results, analysis, and sizing guidelines for Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server.
411) Migrating UNIX and Other Applications to Windows Server 2003: Date - Jun 21, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Migration; 169 KB Microsoft Word file - white paper outlines the many system management tools and the advanced development environment that make it easy for IT professionals and developers to migrate UNIX and Java applications to a Windows-based solution.
412) Migrating Win32 Applications to Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Migration; 246 KB Microsoft Word file - This includes applications such as Visual Basic®, 32-bit Windows-based applications, and Web applications written using Active Server Pages (ASP).
413) 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
414) MSDN Webcast: Building Reliable Web Applications on Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 106 minutes - you will learn how to fully leverage the new reliability and management features in IIS 6.0. We’ll also explore IIS 5.0 compatibility mode and configure a poorly behaved unmanaged C++ ISAPI web application to automatically recycle to maintain availability while it is rewritten in managed code. We’ll learn how to programmatically modify the XML Metabase or recover the Metabase, in the event that it becomes corrupted. Finally, you’ll see how you can increase the reliability and uptime of your web server by replacing complex ISAPIs with much more maintainable ASP.NET Web applications. We’ll rewrite an application as a managed ASP.NET application and obsolete the unreliable program.
415) MSDN Webcast: UDDI on Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 86 minutes - In this intermediate session, you will learn how UDDI is used as a directory and discovery service for XML Web Services. We’ll dig into how XML web services can be published and located through both the UDDI Web interface, and through the UDDI API in Windows Server 2003. We’ll explore some more advanced features of UDDI by registering multiple physical access points for a single logical web service. This session will teach you how to write a managed WinForms client application and programmatically query UDDI for a list of registered services. When the primary web service fails, our client will automatically recover and select a backup service with UDDI.
416) MSDN Webcast: Using Authorization Manager on Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security; 83 mins - In this advanced session, we will learn how to leverage the Authorization Manager API that’s built into Windows Server 2003 to control access to resources and limit the tasks that a user can perform. We’ll write code to perform dynamic access checks on specific tasks. We’ll compare and contrast controlling authorization via a custom-built SQL scheme and using the Active Directory and Authorization Manager in Windows Server 2003. Finally, we’ll explore how roles can be inherited and integrate auditing.
417) MSDN Webcast: What's in Windows Server 2003 for Developers: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 92 minutes - This overview session will introduce you to the new developer features of the server and provide you with an overview of what they can do for you and your organization. Topics covered include UDDI, COM+ 1.5, MSMQ 3.0, enhancements in IIS 6.0, and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). We will also touch on the Windows Server 2003 architecture, including increased performance and scalability, along with a glimpse of the new security enhancements.
418) MSDN Webcast: Windows Server 2003 Internet Explorer Security Setting Functionality: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Security; 36 minutes - look at the changes made to Internet Explorer in Windows Server 2003 and how these changes will affect the ISV or developer when developing applications. This short webcast will cover the background of why the default settings for Internet Explorer will be set at the highest level of security, how the user's experience will be affected and what an ISV or developer can do to ensure their customer has a productive experience on Windows Server 2003.
419) Moving Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Applications to Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Applications; 202 KB Microsoft Word file - explains how to plan a migration strategy, and it describes how you can use various utilities and technical resources to deploy Windows Server 2003 as an application server and Web server, while minimizing disruption and additional investment.
420) Maximizing Availability on the Windows Server 2003 Platform: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 207 KB Microsoft Word file - This article examines the five components of the Microsoft strategy for helping customers maximize solution availability with Windows Server 2003. The strategy encompasses verifying operating system reliability during the Windows engineering process, understanding the causes of downtime, deploying new features and product enhancements that reduce downtime, providing mission-critical capabilities and services, and delivering prescriptive guidance and best practices.