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31) TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2003 Maintenance Best Practices: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 70 mins - This session will uncover ways to make maintenance best practices become common place in an environment and alleviate many of the common firefighting pitfalls.
32) TechNet Webcast: Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM): Managing processing resources with Windows Server 2003: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous; 86 minutes - Microsoft Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) provides resource management and enables the allocation of resources, including processor and memory resources, among multiple applications based on business priorities with Windows Server 2003.
33) Three Ways To Check Event Logs On Remote Computers: Date - Nov 23, 2010; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Admin; This article explains how you can check Event Logs on remote computer.
34) Verifying the /3GB switch: Date - Aug 14, 2007; Rating - 5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to verify memory allocation when the /3GB switch is used.
35) 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.
36) Understanding the DNS Resolver Host File: Date - Jan 10, 2008; Rating - 4.8; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; The DNS Resolver host file can be used to increase performance of DNS services as well as a few other things. This tip aims at giving a better understanding of the DNS resolver host file and its capabilities.
37) Security Patches as ISO images: Date - Feb 21, 2006; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; You can obtain patches for Windows as an ISO (CD) image.
38) How Do You Change The RDP Port No?: Date - Dec 17, 2008; Rating - 4.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; This articles explains a registry entry you can modify to change the default RDP Port No. for Terminal Services.
39) Avoiding Legacy Built-in Groups: Date - May 10, 2006; Rating - 4.8; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; How you can avoid using legacy built-in groups to grant admin-level privileges.
40) 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.
41) 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.
42) Gaps in Security Log: Date - Jul 14, 2005; Rating - 4.7; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; You found a gap of several hours in your Security log, what does it mean?
43) Group Policy Objects and Gpotool.EXE: Date - Dec 15, 2010; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains how you can use Gpotool.exe to check the sync problem with Group Policy Objects.
44) Finding and Fixing Duplicate SIDs on the Network: Date - Nov 26, 2008; Rating - 4.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; Duplicate SIDs on the network can cause all types of problems. Why would we have duplicate SIDs and how to we correct it?
45) Launching Control Panel Apps from the Command Line: Date - Feb 08, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to launch Control Panel apps from the command line
46) A Quick Tip To Check If DCs Can Register Records With DNS Dynamically: Date - Jan 21, 2010; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry key which you can query to know if DCs are using Dynamic DNS protocol to register records with DNS Servers.
47) A Quick Tip To Check If PDC Emulator Is Working: Date - Feb 04, 2009; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains how you can tell if PDC Emulator in an Active Directory Domain is working.
48) Running chkdsk on very large volumes: Date - Jun 13, 2006; Rating - 4.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Using DFS to get around long wait times checking very large volumes.
49) Secure USB ports: Date - Dec 01, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; How to prevent users from downloading sensitive files using USB keys.
50) Pruning Old Computer Accounts in AD: Date - May 25, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Admin; In large organizations the task of keeping Active Directory cleansed of inactive computer accounts can be daunting. Here are a few ways to ease the process.
51) Uninstall applications in Safe Mode: Date - Feb 19, 2009; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; How can you uninstall Windows Installer-based applications in Safe Mode if you need to?
52) W2K3 DHCP vs. SBS2K3 DHCP: Date - Aug 03, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; There's an important difference in how DHCP works on a W2K3 DHCP server as compared to a Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2K3) box.
53) Using Netsh to Backup and Restore Network Configuration: Date - Apr 13, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; When you change your network configuration often it may make the process more efficient to backup your commonly used network settings so you can restore them in a much faster process by using the Netsh utility.
54) Enabling Remote Desktop on a Remote Machine: Date - Apr 13, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; What if you want to use Remote Desktop on a server that's already off-site? Here's how to do it.
55) Enhance Performance by Moving the Pagefile: Date - Apr 12, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Boost performance by moving your pagefile to a separate volume.
56) 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.
57) 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:
58) Managing Microsoft Office Applications with Group Policy: Date - Jun 08, 2006; Rating - 4.4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; In organizations where Microsoft Office is commonplace on workstations, the ability to manage settings within those applications can come in handy. I will show you how we can manage those settings via Group Policy
59) Monitor Share Usage for File Server Migration: Date - Apr 07, 2005; Rating - 4.4; Author - Leon Funnell; Section - Migration; How to monitor share access on a file server.
60) Launch Admin Tools from the Command Line: Date - Feb 07, 2006; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; This list of .msc files will help you run admin tools from the command line.