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.
It’s important to start learning how to identify IPv6 addresses if you want to be able to troubleshoot network connectivity issues on IPv6 networks, and this is especially important as IPv4 to IPv6 migrations accelerate in different parts of the world.
Want to customize the desktop experience for any user who logs onto a computer? Customize the Default User user profile on the machine, which is found in C:\Documents and Settings\Default User.
Rolling back a device driver may be necessary if you”ve just installed updated the driver for some device on your system and it”s behaving erratically as a result.
If you”re troubleshooting a desktop system on a network where roaming profiles are being used, you may want to temporarily disable roaming profiles on the machine and use a locally cached profile instead. That way when you reboot the machine or log off and on, you won”t end up having the roaming profile overwrite any diagnostic changes you”ve… Read More »
Windows XP computers can be assigned IP addresses two ways: manually using static addresses or automatically using DHCP.