If you are unable to access the configuration of the Volume Shadow Copy service remotely, there may be a good reason why.One of the great features of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is that you can access this services configuration and the backups it creates without being interactively logged into the server it is activated on.
Be careful naming your printers if you want to be able to manage them! Ever deployed a printer and then tried to open its properties from the print server and found the Security tab missing or some of the buttons on the property sheet not working? You may have given your new printer a name that contains a… Read More »
The Volume Shadow Copy service is a great way to provide an added means of backing up your data. Here we will look at some of the space requirements you will need to plan for when implementing it.
Boost performance by moving your pagefile to a separate volume. A significant performance gain can usually be achieved on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 by moving the pagefile to a different partition or volume. By default, Windows creates a pagefile of size 1.5 x RAM and locates it on the root of the boot partition (usually C:… Read More »
What if you want to use Remote Desktop on a server that’s already off-site? Here’s how to do it.
Make life easier for your users by simplifying how they search for resources in Active Directory. It takes about half a dozen steps to search Active Directory using the Desktop Search Assistant on Windows XP. That”s frustrating for most users.
Much to the appeal of network administrators everywhere, windows update settings for individual computers can be set via group policy. Here is how to do it.
One way for an attacker to scope out a target system and, particularly, to identify the Administrator account so they can focus their efforts on the account with the most privileges is to list, or enumerate, the SID”s (serial identifiers) on a Windows machine.
A useful trick in Vista is being able to right-click on an item, select Send To, and then send the item to your Documents folder, a mail recipient, a USB drive, and so on.
If you want to prevent users from connecting USB key drives to their machines and copying sensitive company information onto them, you can always pour glue in the USB ports on these machines, but that’s a drastic measure.