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. Scripting Printer Installation with PrintUI.dll

    Printer installation can be made into a scripting process very easily by use of the PrintUI DLL. Here is how to do it... Read More

  2. Virtualization and Viruses

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 26 April 2006
    • Section: Security

    How to protect your virtual machines without degrading performance... Read More

  3. Using Netsh to Backup and Restore Network Configuration

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 13 April 2006
    • Section: Network

    When you change your network configuration often it may make the process more efficient to backup your commonly used network settings so you can restore them in a much faster process by using the Netsh utility... Read More

  4. Naming Network Connections

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 12 April 2006
    • Section: Network

    Take a moment to name your network connections appropriately and save yourself time when troubleshooting later on... Read More

  5. Disabling Caching of Failed DNS Lookups

    • by Mitch Tulloch
    • Published on 11 April 2006
    • Section: Network

    How to prevent caching of failed DNS lookups from preventing you from having DNS name queries resolved... Read More

  6. Who's logged on?

    How to tell who's currently logged on to an Active Directory domain... Read More

  7. Forcing Group Policy Updates Locally

    When testing Group Policy settings, being able to force a policy update can be very convenient. This can be done with the gpupdate command... Read More

  8. Defragmentation and Shadow Copies

    How to make defragmentation work properly with shadow copies enabled... Read More

  9. Configuring Wireless Security Settings via GPO

    • by Chris Sanders
    • Published on 23 March 2006
    • Section: Security

    Using Group Policy wireless extensions you can more easily manage security and encryption settings for your networks wireless clients... Read More

  10. Managing SRV Records in DNS

    Tip for troubleshooting SRV records... Read More