Marcin Policht

The previous article in this series presented a number of solutions using scripting and third-party freeware utilities to enable remote query registry and

The previous article in this series discussed HFNetChk and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) -- two free solutions available from Microsoft that

Thus far, our Windows Patch Management series has focused on a number of free solutions from Microsoft that offer patch deployment and inventory

The previous article in this series began our discussion of Software Update Services. SUS is a free patch deployment solution from Microsoft that also

Thus far, our Windows Patch Management series has limited its scope to patch management solutions. While this approach is valid in some cases, many

The previous article in this series presented an architectural overview of the SMS 2.0 Software Update Services Feature Pack. We also described its main

In the previous article, we described the SMS 2.0 Software Update Services Feature Pack. Here, we review its latest incarnation, as implemented in the

Despite the termination of Microsoft's support for Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (hotfix and paid incident support ended on June 30, 2004) and similar

At some point, nearly every system administrator in a large computing environment will be faced with the challenge of automating the setup of a new

The previous article of this series"Deploying Windows XP, Using the Windows PE", presented an alternative approach to traditional methods of unattended

Recently, we completed our series of articles that examined different methods of handling Windows XP deployments. We focused primarily on solutions that

The first article in this new series, provided a brief overview of two main high-availability technologies incorporated into Windows 2003 Server operating