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How do I reset a Windows 2000 administrator password?

An administrator who doesn't have the former admin's password for Windows 2000 wonders if there's a way to reset the password or figure out what it is. Continue Reading

Applying permissions to an Active Directory OU

Learn to troubleshoot issues with assigning permissions to groups in an organizational unit. Continue Reading

Windows cannot determine user or computer name

Active Directory migration planning checklist

Planning an Active Directory upgrade or migration? This checklist provides all the key factors to be aware of before you begin. Continue Reading

How can I use "Logon Workstations" in AD without WINS?

Advantages and disadvantages of DNS on domain controllers

Expert Paul Hinsberg weighs the pros and cons of installing DNS on domain controllers rather than having separate DNS servers. Continue Reading

Why can't I access the Internet until disconnected from RRAS?

What to expect during and after DCPROMO

What's the best way to move from an old WINS server to a new one?

How do I change a NetBIOS domain name?

How can I set up a Linux DNS server to work with AD?

16 How can I reverse a group policy on a DC?

Why is the BITS service set to manual?

Getting intermittent 'destination host unreachable' error from ISA Server

How LDAP authentication works with AD

What is the size in bits of a MAC address?

Can I force ntuser.dat to rename to ntuser.man?

What is the difference between a workgroup and a domain?

Automatically delete locally cached roaming profiles

How can I increase the ARP cache size in Windows?

How do I kill a process on a Win2k server that can't be accessed from Task Manager?

What does "%" mean in a term like %Homepath%?

What is the difference between user mode and kernel mode in NT 4.0?

Problem getting patches with Windows Update

Can I (as a user) stop other users from printing to a specific network printer?

How do I configure DNS in a child domain?

What does "TTL expired in transit" mean?

Our expert demystifies the Time to Live (TTL) error and gives advice about what do you when you encounter it. Continue Reading

What is the difference between Functional Specification and Design Specification?

How many single-spaced typewritten pages will fit on a 3.5" floppy disk?

Can I save a Word file as a bitmap or jpeg?

How can I monitor SMTP traffic coming from all machines?

How can we find the functions prototypes from DLL?

What is the difference between 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems?

What is the difference between TCP/IP and NetBEUI?

What are the differences among SGML, HTML and XML?

Markup languages came into use in the 1980s as a method to markup electronic documents and gained prominence with the creation of the World Wide Web. Continue Reading

DHCP on the gateway or server? And is PPTP the best way to perform offsite administration?

How can we remove vendor/company logos from PC bootup screens?

Should I transfer the FSMO role with DCPROMO or MMC?

Will a switch improve network performance in my network?

Can the variables %homepath% and %username%. be used in a login script file?

What CPU scheduling algorithms are used in Windows?

How do I restore system.ini on Windows 98?

Roaming profiles don't update, can't access user profile folders

Methods to improve CPU utilization

How do I create an MS-DOS boot partition with HPFS or NTFS?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the FAT32 file system?

Stack overflows versus stack overruns

Do all hub ports have MAC addresses associated with them?

Can't use Windows authentication. Will anonymous authentication work?

What does HKEY mean or stand for?

Why is the TTL for a loopback (127.0.0.1) 128 seconds, and yet it is relatively small (48 seconds) f

I can ping the SMTP server IP, but cannot send mail through it. What am I doing wrong?

What's the difference between 16 bit and 32 bit memory addressing?

Why is the pagefile for crash dump failing?

Why am I getting an error when I try to run the Wizard in the AD migration tool?

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