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Frustrated by tedious IT help desk tasks? Daniel Petri and Haim Cohen provide some relief with a configuration script that automates repetitive help desk tasks.

What is the Windows Server 2003 SP2Administration Pack? Where can I get it? The Administration Tools Pack allows administrators to install the Windows Server 2003 management tools onto a computer running Windows XP Professional or a Windows Server 2003 family operating system to perform remote server management functions. This is the final version (build 5.2.3790.1830)…

Microsoft released yesterday the February 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. As usual, the company addressed several vulnerabilities across a wide range of its products, including two zero-day flaws that are actively being exploited by attackers. In addition to the zero-day vulnerabilities, Microsoft advises administrators to patch critical flaws in the…

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…

When Microsoft Windows 2000 was released many years ago, administrators were blessed with new functionality called Terminal Services which easily allowed remote administration of a server. The functionality or the concept was actually not new. Administrators of Windows operating systems as well as other platforms are plenty familiar with the concept of remote administration. For…

Where can I download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit tools? You can download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit software tools listed on this page for free and install them on your computer. These utilities can help you streamline administrative tasks such as managing Active Directory, administering security features, working with Group Policy and Terminal Services,…

As I wrote in previous Windows Server 2008 articles, a Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles, which reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. You can read more about Server Core in the “What’s Related” section at the bottom of this page….

Properly securing your Remote Desktop Connections is vital because of the far-reaching access and capability that Remote Desktop Connection has. Find out how to manually secure your Remote Desktop Connections.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s announcement to remove all the infrastructure features, such as scale-out file server and Hyper-V from Nano Server.

Daniel Petri explains how to block Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) automatic updates with the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit. Unlike the IE9 blocking tool, this tool does have an expiration date – the 22nd of February 2012.