If you’re using Windows 2000 Server or above, chances are you’re
also using Kerberos authentication. It’s time to get to know this
three-pronged protocol and learn how to troubleshoot it.
- By David W. Tschanz
- 07/01/2004
You can roll your own (pardon the pun) cracks for Windows LM passwords.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2004
Take care of this task throughout the company via this Active Directory trick.
Admin wants to move up the experience ladder and learn scripting.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/29/2004
Performance dies on this unnamed admin's Dell server, so Bill helps him trace the problem to driver chaos.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/22/2004
This tool allows you to do various things using different rights/credentials.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 06/01/2004
Microsoft’s next Service Pack for Windows XP is almost totally about improved security. And it shows.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/01/2004
Find out how to import Contacts and User Objects into Active Directory, as well as modify batched objects.
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
Microsoft's password complexity filter: what's wrong with it and why you might need something better.
- By Bill Boswell
- 05/04/2004
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services and Undelete 4.0 are a potent one-two punch.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 05/01/2004
This business owner’s thin-client Windows network was impregnable. Or so he thought, until he met Bob…
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.