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In the past, managing disk partitions had to be mostly done through 3rd-party tools such as Partition Magic and others, that had to be booted externally to Microsoft operating systems from bootable CDs. Such tools allowed you to re-format your disk, manage partitions, and mostly to extend (increase the size of) and shrink (reduce the…

What other shell enhancements or other tweaks do you recommend for Windows 2000/XP/2003? There are quite a few. I’ll try to add them to this page as time permits. Send to Toys v2.5 One of my favorite tools, one that I usually install right after finishing setting up any new system. Send To Toys is…

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides you with a comprehensive time and information manager. Users can share their calendars with other users by using Exchange Server, but because this action requires you to use a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 account, it may not be suited for home users or small offices lacking a local Exchange server….

The free, open source application Cygwin can be used in combination with OpenSSH to turn Windows Vista into an SSH Server. Cygwin is an extremely robust application and one of the many uses of Cygwin is an SSH Server. This tutorial will demonstrate how to setup Cygwin and consequently OpenSSH on Windows Vista. Among many…

Setting mailbox limits over 2GB in Exchange 2003 Exchange Server 2000/2003 allows the Exchange Administrator to set limits on the mailboxes of users in the Exchange Organization (read Setting Mailbox Limits, Working with Store Policies and Overwriting Mailbox Store Policy Limits for more info). Setting limits on the mailboxes help control the database size and…

Windows Server 2008 holds some major key benefits in Terminal Services technology. Some of these are discussed in various articles on my site (see Related Articles section below). One of these features is Display Data Prioritization. Display Data Prioritization in Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services allows for automatic control over the virtual channel traffic that…

As written in the first part of this set of articles, there are two ways to assign Logon scripts. The first is done on the Profile tab of the user properties dialog in the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). The second is done via Group Policy Objects (GPO). This article will focus on the…

You can use Active Directory logon scripts to assign tasks that will be performed when a user logs on to a particular computer. These scripts can carry out operating system commands, set system environment variables, and call other scripts or executable programs. Some tasks commonly performed by logon scripts include: Mapping network drives Installing and…

How do I restrict a User’s Logon hours on my Windows XP machine? Local and domain users can be restricted from logging on to the computer (or to the network) at specific hours or days. You can only restrict when a user can log on to the system. On a stand alone computer (one that…

This is an article following my previous one about the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool – read “Quickly Analyze your Server’s Performance Monitor Logs ". Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Performance Advisor v2.0 is the latest version of Server Performance Advisor, which is a simple but robust tool that helps you diagnose the root causes…