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Understanding how Windows PowerShell organizes tasks
Microsoft designed Windows PowerShell to organize tasks in two ways: by name and function. Learn the details of PowerShell's structure, and use that knowledge to quickly find the tools you need. Scripting School
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NTRadmin
NTRglobal's NTRadmin is a remote systems administration tool designed for managing simple and complex networks and streamlining IT processes. New Product Showcase
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How to use PowerShell to build a disk cleanup utility
For people interested in how things tick, computers can be a satisfying test medium because the changes you make have an immediate effect. But it's also possible to make changes that can't be reversed or can only be reversed with a lot of pain. Chri... Scripting School
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IT Disaster Recovery Planning Guide
In this series, expert Russell Olsen describes the keys to developing a solid disaster recovery plan. Enterprise Management Gui
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Disaster recovery now and in the future
Symantec's director of storage management offers several tips for smart disaster recovery planning and technology investments. Executive Briefing
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Insider Solutions -- Chapter 8, 'Administering Windows Server 2
Remote server administration can be a big time-saver, and Windows Server 2003 has the features you need for making the process even simpler, quicker and more secure. This chapter excerpt provides a comprehensive overview of new tools, best practices,... Chapter Download
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Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI -- Chapter 28, 'Scripting Security'
Chances are you've had to completely disable scripts in your environment, thanks to the number of abusive scripts out there. Making scripting a safe part of your environment can be a difficult task. This chapter focuses on ways to address the two pri... Book Chapter
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Harden Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 RRAS Configuration
This excerpt from Chapter 11 of Roberta Bragg's "Hardening Windows Systems" describes how to harden Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Book Excerpt
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Impersonation
This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" describes the concept of impersonation and impersonation tokens. Book Excerpt
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Where Windows 2000 uses SIDs
This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" describes three major access control structures where SIDs are used. Book Excerpt
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Hyper-V shops automate DR courtesy of Citrix Essentials
The DR automation that VMware users enjoy with SRM is now available to Microsoft Hyper-V shops, thanks to Citrix Essentials' Site Recovery feature. Article | 16 Dec 2009
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Microsoft says DAS helps cut Exchange Server costs
Got plans for direct-attached storage? With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 replication features, like Cluster Continuous Replication, some Windows shops can avoid costly SANs for DAS. Article | 04 Sep 2008
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Disaster recovery shortchanged by business execs
Data center disaster recovery and business continuity are crucial to a businesses bottom line, but a new study shows business execs aren't making disaster recovery a priority. Article | 26 Apr 2007
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Charting a disaster recovery plan
The first step to designing a solid disaster recovery plan is defining your company's IT universe. Expert Russell Olsen explains where to go from there – creating a plan and integrating it into your daily work. Article | 22 Mar 2007
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Disaster recovery plans: Best integrated into daily operations
Expert Russell Olsen explains how to define your IT universe, the first step in developing a solid disaster recovery plan. Article | 20 Mar 2007
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SunGard taps server virtualization to speed disaster recovery
Disaster recovery service provider SunGard is turning to server virtualization and VMware to speed time to recovery for its customers. Article | 01 Feb 2007
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Windows management products earn top honors
Winning the Gold for desktop remote control was GoToMyPC Corporate 5.0 from Citrix Online. VMware Infrastructure 3 was named disaster recovery Product of the Year 2006, along with Ipswitch Inc.'s WhatsUp Professional Premium 2006 for server monitorin... Article | 15 Jan 2007
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Scripting School: Creating an inventory of mapped drive connections
Many smaller enterprises have trouble keeping track of user connections to mapped drives. If users are creating and deleting their own network connections, it can be easy for them to duplicate or create redundant mappings, or to forget which drive le... Article | 08 Jan 2007
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Admins reveal 2007 priorities
Administrators reveal their 2007 IT priorities in SearchWinComputing.com reader survey. Article | 13 Nov 2006
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Symantec to reactivate IT support discussion boards
A year after shutting down its discussion forums for IT professionals, Symantec is set to reactivate them as part of a revamped technical support portal community coming in 2007. News | 01 Nov 2006
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How to save money with application-level high availability
Enterprise-level high availability is complex and costly. Using application-level HA could actually save you a buck. Tip
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Built-in NIC teaming in Windows Server 2012 gives IT pros a break
In Windows Server 2012, IT pros can prepare for failover scenarios using the newly built-in NIC teaming capability. Tip
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Free PHP add-on brings accelerated speed, support to Windows Server
Admins can gain improved functionality of PHP applications running on Windows Server through Windows Cache Extension, an open source PHP add-on utility. Tip
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Planning for disaster recovery with Microsoft Hyper-V
Virtualization is supposed to simplify disaster recovery, but is Microsoft's Hyper-V up to the task? It can be – if you plan accordingly. Tip
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Top 10 things you don't know about Windows Server 2008 R2
Often times it's the little things that count. While improvements to Hyper-V have gotten most of the press, other changes to R2 have fallen under radar. Tip
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How a proper data capacity planning strategy aids in disaster recovery
When dealing with a capacity crisis in a complex situation, be sure to address the correct problems with appropriate short-term solutions and long-term capacity planning strategies. Tip
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A seven-step disaster recovery planning checklist for Windows
This disaster recovery planning checklist will help Windows shops build a solid DRP to avoid data loss and comply with a wide range of laws and industry standards. Tip
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Creating comprehensive standards for business continuity documentation
Comprehensive business continuity documentation in standard electronic formats will speed up IT disaster recovery efforts and improve the overall quality of the process. Tip
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Is your Windows shop prepared for a privacy breach?
Learn what Windows managers and their administration teams should do to mitigate and prevent a privacy breach. Tip
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Keeping an eye on network disk space with Windows Server 2008
Users can waste valuable disk space with unauthorized file types, all the while exposing the organization to potential legal liabilities. Creating file screens with Windows Server 2008 is a great way to protect your organization and save disk space ... Tip
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Backing up Active Directory
What is the best way to keep a backup of Active Directory in case of a disaster? I'm currently doing it two ways: 1) Backing up the system state nightly with the tape backup routine, 2) Using NTBackup to backup System State and SYSVOL at the start of... Ask the Expert
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Fix the user interface failure error
Our Windows 2000 server (Service Pack 3) gives the error "User Interface Failure. The logon user interface DLL Msgina.dll failed to load" when booting. We ran a Windows 2000 server setup, went to repair, selected Console, and replaced the msgina.dll ... Ask the Expert
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Can I find the Windows XP CD key on the CD-ROM?
A reader wants to know is there is a way to find the CD key for Windows XP Pro within the actual Windows XP CD-ROM. Ask the Expert
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System keeps asking to reactivate Windows XP
Whenever I try to reboot my Windows XP Pro machine it asks me to reactivate Windows XP. It always reactivates with no problems, but this is getting a little annoying. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Ask the Expert
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Virus caused hard drive to shrink
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I accidentally deleted my network controller driver
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Problems logging on as a user with a .man profile
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What's the most efficient way to defrag to avoid data loss?
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Mail server with IIS 5.0
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Differentiating domain controllers
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geo-replication
Geo-replication is a type of data storage replication in which the same data is stored on servers in multiple geographic locations. Definition
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IIS (Internet Information Server)
Internet Information Server (IIS) is a group of Internet servers from Microsoft that can be installed with its Windows NT and 2000 operating systems. Definition
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EDRAM (enhanced dynamic random access memory)
EDRAM (enhanced dynamic random access memory) is dynamic random access memory (dynamic or power-refreshed RAM) that includes a small amount of static RAM (SRAM) inside a larger amount of DRAM so that many memory accesses will be to the faster SRAM. E... Definition
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New AD features in Windows 2008
In this video from TechEd 2008, Microsoft senior technical product manager Justin Graham discusses some of the lesser known improvements made to Active Directory with Windows Server 2008. Here you'll get details on features such as stickiness prevent... Video
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How to save money with application-level high availability
Enterprise-level high availability is complex and costly. Using application-level HA could actually save you a buck. Tip
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Built-in NIC teaming in Windows Server 2012 gives IT pros a break
In Windows Server 2012, IT pros can prepare for failover scenarios using the newly built-in NIC teaming capability. Tip
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geo-replication
Geo-replication is a type of data storage replication in which the same data is stored on servers in multiple geographic locations. Definition
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Free PHP add-on brings accelerated speed, support to Windows Server
Admins can gain improved functionality of PHP applications running on Windows Server through Windows Cache Extension, an open source PHP add-on utility. Tip
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Planning for disaster recovery with Microsoft Hyper-V
Virtualization is supposed to simplify disaster recovery, but is Microsoft's Hyper-V up to the task? It can be – if you plan accordingly. Tip
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Hyper-V shops automate DR courtesy of Citrix Essentials
The DR automation that VMware users enjoy with SRM is now available to Microsoft Hyper-V shops, thanks to Citrix Essentials' Site Recovery feature. Article
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Top 10 things you don't know about Windows Server 2008 R2
Often times it's the little things that count. While improvements to Hyper-V have gotten most of the press, other changes to R2 have fallen under radar. Tip
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How a proper data capacity planning strategy aids in disaster recovery
When dealing with a capacity crisis in a complex situation, be sure to address the correct problems with appropriate short-term solutions and long-term capacity planning strategies. Tip
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A seven-step disaster recovery planning checklist for Windows
This disaster recovery planning checklist will help Windows shops build a solid DRP to avoid data loss and comply with a wide range of laws and industry standards. Tip
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Creating comprehensive standards for business continuity documentation
Comprehensive business continuity documentation in standard electronic formats will speed up IT disaster recovery efforts and improve the overall quality of the process. Tip
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About Windows Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
For many Windows administrators, disaster recovery means performing a bare metal restore of a Windows server. This topic page offers guides, tutorials and expert tips to help make sure your enterprise is prepared to recover from a serious server issue with minimal downtime and data loss. Check out Eric Beehler's tip on how to plan for disaster recovery with Microsoft's Hyper-V.