Filed in archive Tools
by paul on January 31, 2006
Recovering data from a system disk where the password has been forgotten is not a big problem if you have the right tools. You could get at the data with the Knoppix bootable Linux CD. There's...
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Filed in archive Tools
by paul on January 30, 2006
If you install and uninstall programs as often as I do you've probably run across one that doesn't completely uninstall or worse yet won't. There haven't been a lot of options to...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 30, 2006
There's an upcoming Microsoft webcast on February 9th entitled Windows Vista Deployment Tools and Technologies.From the description:The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system introduces...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 30, 2006
The Windows Server System team has a blogwith lots of good information about Server 2003 R2 and Longhorn Server. One recent post talks about Unix and Server 2003 R2 interoperability. Quoting from...
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Filed in archive General
by paul on January 27, 2006
Virtualization is gaining momentum as a key component in many server consolidation scenarios. While it sounds like a great technology it's not necessarily the best solution. I found this quote...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 27, 2006
My feed reader brought these links today from the microsoft Download Center: Data Storage Design, Backup, and Restore for Windows SharePoint ServicesKey Archival and Management in Windows Server...
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Filed in archive Tutorials
by paul on January 26, 2006
Where do you go to get information about Hacking for legitimate purposes? The Ethical Hacker Network offers tutorials, tips and tricks, links to software and more. From the home page you'll find...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 26, 2006
Found a link over on Eileen Brown's weblog discussing the release candidate of System Center Reporting manager. This tool is an adjunct to Systems Management Server (SMS) and / or Microsoft...
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Filed in archive Tutorials
by paul on January 26, 2006
If you've ever been to one of Novell's Brainshare user events you've probably attended a session by laura Chappell. They're usually held in the biggest room and frequently packed out....
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Filed in archive Reviews
by paul on January 23, 2006
I wrote a review for Network World magazine that ran today. I've been writing this same type of review for them for almost 10 years and decided to take a slightly different approach this time...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 23, 2006
Found a link over on Jeff Alexander's blog to slides and audio of a presentation on how Microsoft does patch management using SMS 2003. I know it always helps me to see how others do things. One...
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Filed in archive by paul on January 22, 2006
Privileged user accounts will hopefully be a thing of the past with Windows Vista. The official name for this piece of Vista is now User Account Control (UAC). If you have in-house developed software...
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Filed in archive Security
by paul on January 21, 2006
microsoft has a series of webcasts under the Security 360 title described as follows:"Security360 is a monthly webcast series hosted by Mike Nash, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President...
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Filed in archive Software
by paul on January 21, 2006
2X is offering a free 5-client license for their thin computing software. You'll need a server machine to act as the host to the remaining machines and then either boot from a CD or over the...
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Filed in archive Tutorials
by paul on January 20, 2006
Microsoft does a great job of offering regular webcasts to help educate you on various products. Eileen Brown has a list of Windows Management Webcasts for the month of February over on her weblog....
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Filed in archive Security
by paul on January 18, 2006
Keeping track of the latest Internet exploits can be a full time job. If you use RSS feeds to read your news and favorite blogs you'll want to add the SANS Internet Security Storm Center feed to...
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Filed in archive News
by paul on January 18, 2006
There's a good article over on ars technica about the direction that Google is taking the Google Talk offering. Specifically they are adopting the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol...
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Filed in archive Security
by paul on January 17, 2006
The Microsoft Security Response Center has a blog and recently had a technical post on the WMF issue. There are a few good links to Microsoft security resources there as well.......
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Filed in archive Tools
by paul on January 17, 2006
I ran across a neat Wiki site with lots of good info on WSUS - Windows Server update Services. Check it out.......
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Filed in archive Security
by paul on January 17, 2006
Found this article over on linux Planet about Novell releasing their AppArmor Linux security application as open source. If you have Linux boxes and are concerned about security it's worth a...
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Filed in archive Quickies
by paul on January 16, 2006
Here's a tip found on Kirk Allen Evans' blog on how to use netstat to display all ports listening over TCP:netstat -a -n -o -p TCP | findstr LISTENINGNote: This is for Windows 2000 / XP......
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Filed in archive Tutorials
by paul on January 16, 2006
Here's a good article that discusses in detail some of the issues surrounding the adoption of ipv6. From the intro:For some years now the general uptake of IPv6 has appeared to be "just...
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