Have you ever forgotten a password? Have you had a situation where the local admin password for a PC was either lost or forgotten? I know I've had that problem more times than I care to admit. I...

WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation. If you don't know what WMI is check out this link for more information. According to the site WMI is:" the Microsoft implementation of...

Do you know how many different versions of Microsoft Office are in use on your network? Better yet, do you have any idea what updates those copies of Office have installed?Microsoft recently released...

Here's a link that showed up in my inbox today for VMware Server University. If you go to the site there are links to white papers, user forums, upcoming webinars and more. If you've had...

I've been on the road for the last week with limited connectivity and it makes it really hard to do some of the things I've taken for granted ever since I had DSL installed. Things like...

Nmap is one of those tools that every networking professional should have in their toolbox. From the website:Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or...

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...

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...

I ran across a neat Wiki site with lots of good info on WSUS - Windows Server Update Services. Check it out.......

I recently found a link to NTOP, an open source tool for monitoring the performance of your network. NTOP can do things like: Sort network traffic according to many protocolsShow network traffic...