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The theory Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is an additional layer of security built into Vista and Windows 2008. This particular layer helps Windows protect itself from harmful intentional and unintentional changes to important objects. Among the objects...
Somewhat surprising but understandable. The question is how will Citrix size up against Microsoft if Microsoft will see them as a competition and not a partner. Official announcement by Citrix Brian Maddens comments
With the advent of Windows 2008 (Beta),and basically everyone getting their hands on a copy and trying to learn how to use it, the Windows 2008 Technical Library can be a great resource. The library describes what's new and provides step by step guides...
A post on the Windows Vista team blog promises that the new OneCare will come with 10GB of online storage to be used as a backup location for digital photographs(at a cost). The post provides a short demonstration of the feature. Wow,10GB. Online backup...
Overview UAC (also called Admin Approval Mode) is a new feature introduced with Windows Vista. The main goal of this feature is to protect the operating system from malicious or accidental damage. This goal is achieved by requesting consent from the user...
Technorati Tags: IE7 , rants , general computing I am an Ebay user. As an Ebay user I am a target for phishng attacks. About a week ago I have made a purchase and I forogt to leave feedback for the seller. A few minutes ago,I received an e-mail saying...
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These two posters, originally published in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, provide a strong visual tool to aide in the understanding of various features and components of Windows Server 2008. One poster focuses exclusively on powerful new Active...
When one of the systems that you manage fails one the best ideas for troubleshooting is looking at the logs. If the OS you are using is from Microsoft the main location for logs is the event viewer. The only problem with logs is that at times they provide...
The attended installation process of Windows 2008 has been simplified. Until Windows 2008, the process of installing a Windows system included the basic configuration of the system. In other words the installer was asked a bunch of question he had to...
OK,so I was troubleshooting and odd issue with an FTP server and one of the things that caught my attention while using Network Monitor (on a Windows 2000 server) was that some(actually almost all) of the TCP checksums (originating from the server) were...
The description from the website: Summary In this session, we explore Server Core, a new minimal installation option included in Windows Server 2008. A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running a subset of the server roles, the...
I have no opinion or clue about the accuracy of the article titled " Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy an iPhone"by Jim Lynch published at extremtech.com, yet it managed to make me laugh(read through it,until the end-and I hope you will...
An oldie but I see it coming up in the newsgroups...my guess is that some sysadmins forgot to fix the problem and the users (specifically home users) trying to access their mailboxes are surprised and convinced that something is wrong with their own system...
Most administrators use the command prompt to run administrative tasks. The problem is that if you are using Vista, opening the CMD will not allow you to run commands as an administrator(unclear to me as to why couldn't they simply let the UAC take care...
The most common reason for such a question to come up is security. TCP/UDP ports are virtual windows on the walls that represent your computer. If a perpetrator would like to gain access to your system he would do such using one such window. We might...
I can't really say what happened since I don't understand it yet it works,so I guess that is important. After losing one memory bank on my system(one of two 1GB sticks) and forgetting about it I was awakened when my virtual machines would not start.....
OK, So why I remembered this is a long and odd story which includes myself forgetting that I have faulty memory installed on my laptop, wanting to install Fedora Core 6 inside VMware on the same laptop and ending up recompiling the kernel in order to...
A major yet not so known change. From 60 days we are going to 180 days on new Active Directory(SP1) implementations and upgrades that have slipstreamed copy. In other words your backups should be valid for 180 days and deleted objects are saved for 180...
Why not you ask? Well since it may be painfull... Microsoft released a patch for Exchange 2003(888619). I read the documentation and it seemed to be relatively harmless...so I decided to apply it to my environment. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888619...
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