Daniel Petri

One of the most frequent questions on virtualization forums that deal with server deployments is the question of how should one deploy their Active Directory domain controllers. Should they be deployed on stand-alone separate servers, should they be kept on separate physical servers, or should they be run inside virtual machines that are hosted on…

Remotely accessing your servers and workstations through terminal services or RDP is an easy method of doing your job from a remote location, or gaining access to specific published applications that have been published on your servers. However, without properly investing in securing these types of RDP connections, you could be compromising the security and…

In the past year notebooks have outsold desktop computers for the first time. If you have Outlook both on your Desktop computer and on your notebook (or netbook), then you’ll want to have the same e-mails, contacts and calendars and both machines. This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to do exactly that with…

How do I deploy SP1? Service Pack 1 (SP1) includes installation files that you can extract from the XPsp1.exe file. This file contains all of the service pack binary files that have been updated for SP1; it also contains the Update.exe program file. XPsp1.exe is a self-extracting compressed file. You can extract all of the…

A word about working with Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and Terminal Servers Recently I had a long conversation with one of my clients about the proper way for using GPOs. I think my readers could benefit from the stuff that was said there. Naturally, the client’s name and details are not an issue and are…

  As described in the previous articles in this series, Active Directory snapshots in Windows Server 2008 allow an administrator to create snapshots of the Active Directory database. By using them, you can view the data inside such a snapshot and use it to restore or inspect data without the need to start the server…

I decided to write this article after I bought myself a brand new, state of the art, laptop from Dell. I’m talking about 2.33 GHz Core Duo, 4 GB of fast RAM, a 7200 RPM SATA hard disk, and all the other necessary hardware. And yet, when I booted up the pre-installed Windows Vista Ultimate…

Seattle, Washington – November 21, 2005 – Acunetix, a leading security software company focused exclusively on helping enterprises secure their web applications and web sites, today announced the next-generation version of  Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner, which provides a comprehensive solution to detecting system vulnerabilities that are frequently exploited by hackers. Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner provides…