According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows server version ever.
Windows 2008 does include many features that will help increase overall security of the OS, or assist you with securing AD, the network, etc. Most Read more
It is pretty easy to use data collected by Performance monitors in Counter objects within OpsMgr 2007. You can create graphs, create rules/monitors alerts, etc
But you can do the same with any type of information that can be Read more
By default, Microsoft Operations Manager includes some monitors / rules that have the ability to monitor the disk utilization of system and/or data disks of your servers (and clients). This is a really nice feature, however there may be Read more
Open your favourite registry editor (regedit will do just fine)
Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" Locate the "Folder" key Open the "shell" branch Create a new key called "Command Prompt Here" Open this key and create a new key called Read more
Having empty vmdk files allows you to – create virtual machines even with vmware player – create additional disks and add them to existing vmware installations
The easiest way to create custom vmdk ‘disks’ is by using a free Read more
At any given time, the amount that TCP can send is governed by three factors: the congestion window, the receive window and the number of bytes available to send. Without using TCP window scaling (which is disabled by default Read more
Microsoft has implemented a really neat feature in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, allowing you to perform a full disk or even system backup, while the system is running.
This new backup tool used Block Level backup and uses Read more
First of all, download psexec from the Microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx From and elevated/admin command prompt (cmd.exe, "run as administrator"), run psexec –s cmd.exe
C:\>whoami peter
C:\>psexec -s cmd.exe
PsExec v1.83 – Execute processes remotely Read more
Easy, don’t you think ? Right click explorer(.exe), choose "run as administrator" and you’re set ?
Nope – doesn’t work ! And this is why
The UAC (User Account Control) feature in Vista provides a user with Read more
By default, Vista has the Windows Firewall is turned on. This means that all incoming connections are being blocked. This may be a good thing in certain cases, but not restrictive enough in most cases, because all outgoing traffic Read more
