system administration

Below is an article written by Ed Bott: Link Removed Over the past couple years, I’ve been regularly checking in to measure whether Windows Vista is living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. (To catch up with previous installments, see October...

Hi, I previously used an XP computer on the domain wth a name like 'mylaptop'. I replaced the drive and have Windows 7 Ultimate installed and am unable to join the computer 'mylaptop' to the domain. I've done these things... 1. Ran NSLOOKUP to verify I can see the domain controller 2...

I have 2 hard drives, the first has Win 7 RC1 and the second has XP and Vista in their own partitions. The Win 7 boot loader gives me the choice of Win7, Vista and XP when I boot up. The question is: If I install Ubuntu onto the second HD in a currently unoccupied partion, will GRUB (which is...

[Just to state, I'm using an Asus laptop with Windows 7 RC version, 64-bit. Duo 2.0 GHz processor, 4 gigs of RAM, 512Mb of video ram] That's how it started, after I left the homegroup I created. I used MMC to change the owner back to my login name, and gave myself permission for everything I...

Does anyone know how I can view more tabs in the active directory mmc that comes witht he winows 7 admin pack?, especially the terminal services profiel tab? Also is there an exchange add-in that lets me view exchange details in the same mmc?

I needed to disable user accounts to use new software I installed, and was confused (obv) and disabled all accounts. I am unable to login now -notification "your account has been disabled" "please see your system administrator" I can not relog in safe mode (F8). What is my next step to a)...

Hello world! I have been using XP and Windows 7 for a while now, and have been keeping my media all on my XP partition. Windows 7 added it's permission settings to the "My Documents" folder of my XP installation just fine, and was working without a hitch. Yesterday, I tried to share the XP "My...

The following is an instruction on how to have some semblance of a Power Management group policy in an environment operating under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the Power Management options in XP, as opposed to Vista, are stored in binary files, thereby making it difficult...

Where specifically in the Administrative Tools module do you go to prevent users from installing programs?

we are trying to join a vista machine in win2003 domain but we did'nt know if it is possible. is there anything that will conflict like the gpo or something. please help. thank you

Hello guys. First post. I have Vista Home Preimium. I am not previously accustomed to managing users. I made changes to user accounts after I realized some things as I went along and I can't get rid of the old users in windows explorer after doing 'remove user'. It just keeps making a...