Admin Tips

Last Updated on 19 July 2011, Total: 361 Knowledge Base Tips

37 Active Directory
76 Admin
9 Applications
4 Exchange
11 Migration
66 Miscellaneous
62 Network
77 Security
12 Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
7 Virtual Platforms

  1. Eliminating Ping Responses from Secret Servers

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 27 March 2007
    • Section: Security

    Ever have a server setup that you really don’t want people knowing even exists? Keeping it from returning ping responses is a great way to make it vanish... Read More

  2. Disabling LM Authentication

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 22 March 2007
    • Section: Security

    Using strong passwords is useless if they are not encrypted properly. That’s why disabling LM authentication is important... Read More

  3. Assigning is Group Policy Software Installations

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 21 March 2007
    • Section: Admin

    You are given the option of publishing or assigning software when you are doing a group policy based software installation. What is the difference?... Read More

  4. Reducing the Complexity of Group Policy Troubleshooting

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 20 March 2007
    • Section: Admin

    The use of group policy can sometimes bring on unexpected problems. Here are a few tips you can use to reduce the complexity of troubleshooting these fiascos... Read More

  5. Logging Windows Firewall

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 15 March 2007
    • Section: Security

    The built-in windows firewall won’t only stop unwanted traffic at your doorstep, it will log it too!... Read More

  6. Warning Signs of a Rogue DHCP Server

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 14 March 2007
    • Section: Security

    Just because you are only supposed to have one DHCP server on your network doesn’t mean it really is the only one... Read More

  7. The Remote Desktop Console Option

    The Remote Desktop Client gives us the option to log into a terminal services enabled computer via the console. What does that mean to us?... Read More

  8. Preventing Offline Files from Caching Certain Files

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 1 March 2007
    • Section: Admin

    Certain files can cause headaches for the offline file backup system. Using group policy we can all together exclude these files... Read More

  9. Forcing Offline File Synchronization

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 27 Feb. 2007
    • Section: Admin

    Here we look at how to manually synchronize offline files... Read More

  10. Can’t Access Your Shadow Copies?

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 22 Feb. 2007
    • Section: Admin

    If you are unable to access the configuration of the Volume Shadow Copy service remotely, there may be a good reason why... Read More