Admin Tips

Last Updated on 14 July 2016, Total: 230 Knowledge Base Tips

3 Active Directory
63 Admin
3 Applications
45 Migration
64 Miscellaneous
23 Network
27 Security
2 Virtual Platforms

  1. Protecting the pagefile

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 30 Nov. 2011
    • Section: Security

    How to protect the pagefile in Windows 7... Read More

  2. Querying Event Logs Using Wevtutil

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 18 Aug. 2011
    • Section: Admin

    Now that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 have significantly more powerful logging capabilities there is a great need for tools to better extract information from these logs. One such tool is called Wevtutil... Read More

  3. Quickly Add a Shared Printer to Your Computer

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 20 March 2012
    • Section: Admin

    You don't have to use the Add a Printer wizard... Read More

  4. Recover Passwords for Dial-up or VPN Connections

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 3 Aug. 2011
    • Section: Security

    Run this utility to retrieve passwords stored for Dial-up or VPN Connections... Read More

  5. Recover WEP, WPA, or WPA2 Encryption Keys from Windows

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 27 July 2011
    • Section: Security

    Discover the encryption keys or passphrases stored by Windows for the Wi-Fi networks you connect to... Read More

  6. Reduce Wasted Bandwidth on a VPN with Split Tunneling

    • by Eric Geier
    • Published on 18 Nov. 2011
    • Section: Network

    Prevent Internet traffic from flowing through the VPN... Read More

  7. Registry setting not applied during deployment

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 4 April 2012
    • Section: Migration

    This tip provides updated info concerning an earlier tip about a registry setting not being applied during deployment when a task sequence runs in MDT 2010... Read More

  8. Removing pre-approved ActiveX controls from Internet Explorer

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 23 May 2012
    • Section: Security

    How to remove pre-approved ActiveX controls from the whitelist of “safe for installing” controls found in Internet Explorer 7 and later... Read More

  9. Removing the Public Documents folder

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 21 March 2013
    • Section: Admin

    How to remove the Public Documents folder from the list of libraries on computers running Windows 7... Read More

  10. Renaming a BitLocker-protected computer

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 24 Aug. 2011
    • Section: Security

    How to rename a BitLocker-protected computer without invalidating your recovery key... Read More

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