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1) Using the Remote Desktop Client from the Command Prompt: Date - Feb 13, 2006; Rating - 4.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; Running the remote desktop client from the command prompt can be very useful in the right situation. Here is how to do it…
2) 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
3) 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.
4) Forcing Active Directory Replication: Date - Jul 27, 2006; Rating - 4.3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; There may be some instances where you need to force replication between active directory replication partners. Here I will show you one method of doing this.
5) 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.
6) Find All Locked-Out Accounts: Date - May 12, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Use Saved Queries to quickly locate all locked out user accounts.
7) 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.
8) Remove Patch Uninstall Folders To Clean Hard Drive: Date - May 04, 2005; Rating - 3.3; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Miscellaneous; Hard drives are cheap and people typically have more space than they know what to do with these days. But, that is no reason to just waste it. When you install Windows patches, hidden folders are created which contain the uninstall data. Viewing the hidden data on my computer, I found 50 or so patch uninstall folders taking up over 500 Mb of space on my drive.
9) 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.
10) Can't Ping the Server: Date - Sep 07, 2006; Rating - 3.2; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Network; Why you can't ping some Windows servers and how to fix it.
11) 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.
12) Keyboard Shortcuts within Remote Desktop: Date - Jun 29, 2006; Rating - 3.1; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; The various keyboard shortcuts used in Windows change when within a remote desktop window. Here is a list of the more common ones.
13) Adding Pop-Up Blocker Exceptions via GPO: Date - Dec 22, 2005; Rating - 4.1; Author - Chris Sanders; 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.
14) 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.
15) Installing the Windows Server 2003 Network Monitor: Date - May 18, 2006; Rating - 4; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; The Windows Server 2003 Network Monitor is a very useful tool for network monitoring and troubleshooting. Here is how to install it.
16) Clearing the ARP Cache: Date - Sep 13, 2007; Rating - 3.5; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Miscellaneous; Knowing how to clear the ARP cache on a workstation or server can often be a good step in troubleshooting connectivity problems.
17) How to prevent users from installing software: Date - Apr 17, 2007; Rating - 1.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Preventing users from installing software.
18) What All Ports Are Rrequired By Domain Controllers And Client Computers?: Date - Feb 04, 2009; Rating - 3.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains the key port requirement for Client computers and Domain Controllers communicating with each other.
19) 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.
20) Authoritative vs. Non-Authoritative Restoration of Active Directory: Date - Jul 20, 2006; Rating - 4.2; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Active Directory; It is the absolute worst case scenario possible; your domain controller has crashed. So what type of restore do you do?
21) The Remote Desktop Console Option: Date - Mar 13, 2007; Rating - 3; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Terminal Servers and Thin Clients; The Remote Desktop Client gives us the option to log into a terminal services enabled computer via the console. What does that mean to us?
22) When to use and not use universal group membership caching: Date - Dec 20, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; This tip explains when to use and not use universal group membership caching.
23) Map Your Network For Better Protection and Incident Response: Date - Apr 01, 2005; Rating - 3.7; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; It is difficult to protect devices that you don't even know exist. In larger enterprises it is very easy to lose track of the asset inventory which leads to complacency about rogue devices. In order to effectively protect the network and to respond to incidents efficiently, an updated asset inventory and network map should always be handy.
24) Using a Script to Add a Domain User to a Local Group: Date - Aug 31, 2006; Rating - 3.6; Author - Chris Sanders; Section - Network; There are sometimes situations when you need to be able to script the process of adding a domain user to a local group on a machine. Here is a script that will do just that.
25) NETBIOS: Leave On or Turn Off?: Date - Apr 14, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; NETBIOS is supposed to be no longer needed since Windows 2000, but this is not really the case.
26) 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.
27) Checking Local Group Policy: Date - Dec 21, 2005; Rating - 3.5; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; There may be times when you want to check the Local Group Policy Settings on a desktop machine.
28) 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.
29) Refresh Group Policy Remotely: Date - Jun 06, 2005; Rating - 4.3; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; How to refresh Group Policy remotely from the command line.
30) Caution with Default Domain Policy: Date - May 25, 2005; Rating - 3.9; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; Describes best practice for using the Default Domain Policy.