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With the release of Windows Vista, many users have been dual booting between Windows XP and Windows Vista. Unfortunately, the process of changing the boot operating system is not entirely intuitive. Windows Vista has a little known, but very useful tool, that allows the user to select which operating system to load when dual (or…

  Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breaches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no…

How can I administer Windows 2000/2003-based computers using Windows XP Professional-based clients? This article describes how to use the Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools package on Windows XP Professional or how to use the Windows Server 2003 family to remotely administer Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family-based and Windows Server 2003 family-based computers. The following topics…

A review of Train Signal’s Windows 2000/2003 WINS Video Lab Training – Product Details. See more details at Train Signal’s website. I had always used WINS because it was easy to install and configure. It was a no brainer. Static Mappings was the extent of my configuration attempts with WINS. Didn’t think there was really much to it…

A review of Train Signal’s Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Video Lab Training – Product Details. See more details at Train Signal’s website. Comprehensive Instructional Video. Perfect for the novice who needs a crash course in installing and setting up Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server and/or Windows 2003 Server or for the more experienced administrator…

In this article, Microsoft Exchange MVP and author Pat Richard discusses moving the queue database in Exchange 2007 to help avoid back pressure. As Pat explains, back pressure can cause mail flow to stop. Moving the database can increase server stability and keep that help desk phone from ringing. Check it out! What is back…

How do I add the Outlook 2003 icon back to the desktop, just like the Outlook 2000/XP used to have? If you have installed Outlook 2003, you may notice that the launch icon is no longer placed on the desktop. This change was made because of the new “clean screen” strategy, which is one of…

Up until about a year or two ago, Exchange Server routinely enjoyed a reputation as being the most complicated product that Microsoft makes. In recent years, Exchange Server hasn’t gotten any easier, it’s just that Microsoft has created other products such as Office Communications Server that are more complicated than Exchange. Given the complexity of…

One of the issues that sometimes made managing group policies difficult in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003 was the non centralized nature of the group policy template files. For example, Microsoft offers downloadable templates that allow you to manage Microsoft Office via group policy. Even so, these templates are not automatically available from…

We’ve all occasionally run into situations in which we have tried to e-mail someone and received an unexpected non delivery report. To a techie, a non delivery report contains a wealth of information that can be used to figure out why the message didn’t reach its intended recipient (I will be discussing this in detail…