You can buy a lot for $1,000 these days. We test four bargain-basement boxes and tell you what to expect.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
Find out how to import Contacts and User Objects into Active Directory, as well as modify batched objects.
Microsoft’s Services for Unix ties two OS combatants together.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 06/01/2004
Admin wants to maintain snappy performance with user profiles and home folders with a Windows 2003 network upgrade.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/01/2004
This script can be altered to read/write any kind of Registry entry.
- By Chris Brooke
- 06/01/2004
As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 might interest those small and medium businesses.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
Virtual LANs are a good way to speed up your network by grouping users and
computers into logical, rather than physical, units. Here’s how they work.
- By Laura E. Hunter
- 06/01/2004
As part of the June cover feature, "4 Dirt-Cheap Workgroup Servers," Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 also comes with a Backup Configuration Wizard. Here are two add-on products that offer help.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 06/01/2004
Group policy can make your life as an administrator blissful or stressful.
Learn from one expert’s experiences what works with group policies, and what doesn’t.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 06/01/2004
Boot-up is a dangerous time for your systems, a time before security policies to protect them may be active. Avoid danger with persistent policies.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 06/01/2004
DNS is the foundation the house of Active Directory is built upon. If DNS doesn’t work, neither will your Windows network. Here are the 10 most common DNS errors—and how you can avoid them.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/01/2004
In March 2004, Microsoft refined its new management vision with the announcement of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and the first version of its unified operations environment, System Center 2005. Both products are due for release later this summer.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2004
You can give ordinary users NT and WMI administrative rights for routine tasks—to a degree.
- By Chris Brooke
- 05/01/2004
MBSA offers much more than updates to your network.
Executive Software's Diskeeper 8.0 can restore speed lost to scattered files.
- By Michael Morgan
- 05/01/2004