IT Knowledgebase Articles

(MBSA 1.2.1 was released in the middle on August 2004 and replaces MBSA 1.2) MBSA Version 1.2.1 is a tool designed for the IT Professional that helps with the assessment phase of an overall security management strategy. MBSA Version 1.2.1 includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of…

As you probably read in my previous articles – “Recovering Deleted Items in Active Directory” and “Restore Windows Server 2003 Active Directory“, an administrator might sometime need to restore deleted objects from the Active Directory database. You see, when an object is deleted from Active Directory, it is not immediately erased, but is marked for…

As described in my previous articles, Windows Server 2008 has an interesting option to install it with a minimal graphical user interface (or GUI for short). This method of installation is called “Server Core”, and it allows an administrator to only install the minimum binaries required to run a specific server role (currently, there are…

ManageNet network administration tool – more info It is estimated that 85% of a network administrator’s time is spent rolling out the latest service packs, mapping drives, configuring folder redirections, configuring Internet connections, setting Microsoft Office paths, creating new Outlook profiles, deploying new printers, configuring proxy setting and tightening security policies. ManageNet uses a graphical…

How can I make Windows XP boot faster? You can make Windows XP boot faster by 5 – 15 seconds (on some machines). To do so do the following: Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). Locate the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParameters Make sure you backup the keys by exporting them to a .reg file. On…

How can I easily give someone the Log On Locally user right on a Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Domain Controllers? In Windows 2000 (and Windows Server 2003) servers that are configured as Domain Controllers only 5 groups have the right to log on locally on the computer. Those groups are: Administrators, Account, Print,…

There are many tools and utilities designed to do so, but none are native W2K GUI. There are no graphical or command line utilities that produce comprehensive reports on groups, users and permissions included with the Windows Operating System or the Resource Kit. The NET commands and the Windows Resource Kit ADDUSERS.EXE and PERMS.EXE utilities…

Download the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux, available from Microsoft Connect (see link below) in order to improve the experience of running qualified Linux distributions on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. The Virtual Machine Additions for Linux provide the following capabilities: Guest and host synchronization for time synchronization, for heartbeat generation, and for coordinated shutdown…

Here is Daniel’s List of Recommended Web links: (Sorted in some freestyle alphabetical order) Great Microsoft-related Knowledge Bases These are the ones I’m currently using. Note that a very short description doesn’t imply that the featured site is less useful than one with a long description: Link Description Brian Madden Great resource for Citrix, Terminal…

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