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How to ask a question? (or – How do I ask a question on a professional forum/newsgroup without getting flamed?) How many times did you post a question on a technical newsgroup or forum, waited quite a lot of time for an answer, and the only thing you got was either a long silence, or…

How does EFS work? EFS uses an encryption attribute to designate files for EFS protection. When a file’s encryption attribute is on, EFS stores the file as encrypted cipher text. When an authorized user opens an encrypted file in an application, EFS decrypts the file in the background and provides a plaintext copy to the…

One of an administrator‘s main chores is the tedious task of having to go through server event logs and monitor them for any error, warning, or abnormal event. Naturally, many management and monitoring tools such as Microsoft MOM or System Center Operation Manager 2007 do just that – monitor these events for you. However, in…

VMware‘s virtualization products make it easy for end users to virtualize almost any operating system and make it easy to test and run almost any application. Scenarios for using such products include times when you wish to test an application before installing it on your production environment, test a service pack or hotfix, and even…

Installing Windows Server 2008 is pretty straightforward and is very much like installing Windows Vista, but I thought I’d list the necessary steps here for additional information. For those of you who have never installed Vista before, the entire installation process is different than it used to be in previous Microsoft operating systems, and notably…

As you already know by now, in Windows Server 2008,  Server Core installation does not include the traditional full graphical user interface (GUI). You can read more about Server Core on my “Understanding Windows Server 2008 Core” article. Without going to much into detail, because of the lack of GUI, installing applications on server core…

Server Message Blocks Protocol (SMB) is the file sharing protocol used by default on Windows-based computers. SMB 1.0 was designed for early Windows network operating systems such as Microsoft LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroups, but until Windows Server 2008 and Vista, all Microsoft-based operating systems continued to use it more or less in its…

Microsoft is offering a FREE service called “Windows Live Custom Domains”, in which they will provide e-mail services to your domain. With this service, administrators can create and manage an unlimited number of user accounts, each with a e-mail storage space of 2 GB. The e-mail interface is that of Hotmail, which means that the user does not need to…

Google is now offering a FREE service called “Gmail for your domain”, in which they will provide Gmail service to a domain, any domain, YOUR DOMAIN! When you logon to Gmail you will use a your company’s domain name instead of the Gmail.com domain, and all the e-mail service will be hosted on Google’s servers. As with Gmail, users will be able…

Can I hide the Windows Messenger icon in Windows XP? Yes, and this is much better than to Uninstall Windows Messenger in Windows XP. To turn hide Windows Messenger in Windows XP do the following: Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe). Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have…