Admin Tips

Last Updated on 19 July 2011, Total: 361 Knowledge Base Tips

37 Active Directory
76 Admin
9 Applications
4 Exchange
11 Migration
66 Miscellaneous
62 Network
77 Security
12 Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
7 Virtual Platforms

  1. A Common Misconception Regarding Security Logs

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 27 Oct. 2005
    • Section: Security

    Do domain controllers share security logs?... Read More

  2. A Quick Tip To Verify The SRV Records Of Domain Controllers

    This article explains how you can use the NSLOOKUP tool to verify the SRV records of a domain controller... Read More

  3. A Quick Tip to configure Group Policy settings in Workgroup Security Model.

    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... Read More

  4. ADC Before or After the User Migration

    • by Santhosh Sivarajan
    • Published on 28 July 2005
    • Section: Exchange

    Do you install and configure Active Directory Connector (ADC) before or after the user migration? The answer to this “complicated” question is either you can install and configure ADC and Connection Agreements (CAs) before or after the user migration. Here are my explanations for both scenarios... Read More

  5. Accessing Preference Mode Internet Explorer Setting in Group Policy

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 15 June 2006
    • Section: Admin

    Group Policy contains many hidden jewels that are not always easy to find. Here we look at some advanced internet explorer settings that aren’t readily visible to the naked eye... Read More

  6. Active Directory replication in a multilingual environment

    Active Directory replication in a multilingual environment... Read More

  7. Adding Pop-Up Blocker Exceptions via GPO

    • 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

  8. Admin Command Console

    • 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

  9. Assigning is Group Policy Software Installations

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 21 March 2007
    • Section: Admin

    You are given the option of publishing or assigning software when you are doing a group policy based software installation. What is the difference?... Read More

  10. Audit Collection Services (ACS)

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 19 July 2005
    • Section: Security

    Microsoft's Audit Collection Services (ACS) is coming soon to simplify collection and management of Security logs throughout your organization... Read More

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