You're responsible for soup-to-nuts implementation of a new system. Before you start, here are a few suggestions to make the project run smoothly.
- By Bill Heldman
- 08/01/2003
Windows Server 2003 installs fewer services by default, and installs others in a disabled state. Here’s a guide to what they do, and whether you might need them or not.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 08/01/2003
How much can you handle to get secure?
Many people, many stories.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/2003
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 08/01/2003
Four forests or one? Four domains or one? The best AD design strives for simple and secure administration.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/29/2003
Get the exact time that Windows processes via the WMIC command.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/23/2003
Quick lesson on configuring subnet addresses.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/16/2003
Use Winscl to find out which computers your users are logged onto.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/08/2003
Spamming the Globe
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 07/01/2003
Final thoughts on maintaining the IT career tempo.
- By Steve Crandall
- 07/01/2003
Anthony wanted to run Windows DNS on his company’s BIND network. It worked—until the intern came along.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/01/2003
“One thing we’ll be talking a fair bit about today is the relationship between the PC and the phone. That’s something that will be changing. When you get value added on your PC without having to switch the phone that you use simply by having the PC be aware of what’s going on, that integration, we think, is a very critical one and one that’s influencing the PC hardware.”
—Bill Gates at WinHEC 2003
It is handy to be able to just look up at the My Computer icon and see where you are and what name you are using.
- By Chris Brooke
- 07/01/2003
When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right into AD that you'll want to know about.
Microsoft sets new securityspecializations for MCSE and MCSA titles.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/01/2003
Forego scripting—try this LDAP query in the ADUC.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/01/2003
Straight talk on meshing your enterprise e-mail systems.
- By Bill Heldman
- 07/01/2003
Securely bringing a Windows file server on the network may not sound difficult. But when it's running Windows Server 2003, there's a lot you need to know to do it right.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2003
The road behind has no signposts for what's to come.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/24/2003