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Christopher Rice Over the past year or so I have been writing guides on how to perform useful tasks to your PCs or servers.  Most of these jobs should be scheduled so that they are not reactionary (carried out just to fix issues) but instead are performed regularly so as to AVOID problems in the […]

by Marcin Policht Access to information stored in Active Directory is available using standard Active Directory management utilities. They are convenient and fairly easy to use; however, there are situations in which you might want to develop alternative, custom solutions. For example, you might want to quickly access user or group account information from any […]

Voila! One address list in less than the time that you can get to the post office to buy some three cent stamps!! I would like to point out, however, that at this point I have not actually configured the membership of this address list, so that is the next step. This is a case […]

This article discusses the Apache 2.0 filter API and shows how to write an output filter that looks for a certain string and replaces it with the current time. It also offers steps to build Apache 2.0 from source, build API docs, and implement output filters. This article discusses the Apache 2.0 filter API and […]

by Marcin Policht After looking at the ways of displaying permissions on Windows registry, it is time to explore methods of changing them. As you realize by now, this is accomplished by using Access Control Entries associated with each registry key. Despite some differences, these entries work in a manner very similar to the one […]

Delegation of Control Wizard The Delegation of Control Wizard is used to set specific permissions on Active Directory objects, allowing specific users or groups to gain the appropriate delegated control over the required objects. By using the Delegation of Control Wizard and deploying a specific organizational unit hierarchy, as well as properly planning user groups […]

by Dan DiNicolo http://www.2000trainers.com While connecting to the Internet may seem innocent enough, users and administrators still need to take steps to ensure that their connections are secure. Dan Dinicolo’s latest article discusses the Windows XP built-in Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) tool and how it works to keep the bad guys out while allowing you […]

ROUTE – You can use the route command line tool to display the current IP routing table and add or delete IP routes. ROUTE [-f] [-p] [command] [destination] [MASK netmask] [gateway] [METRIC metric] [IF interface] -f – Clears the routing tables of all gateway entries. If this is used in conjunction with one of the […]

It’s either inspired insight or a lucky shot, but Macromedia has welded Internet communications (essentially messaging) and streaming media together into one of the most timely and unusual servers on the market. Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX (FlashCom) should provide Web developers of many stripes with a sorely needed means to efficiently integrate applications, Web […]

Standard Permissions Once you have copied the permissions locally (or removed them entirely), you can begin to set them locally on the object. In order to set, add or change locally copied permissions to any of the standard permission levels, you need to open the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC and find the object […]

Special Permissions You may find a special case in your environment where the standard permission settings do not allow you to set the desired level of security or access required to a given object. Special permissions can be set in cases such as this. Whenever possible, you should avoid assigning special permissions for specific attributes […]

This article discusses a solution for serving Web sites using multiple builds of PHP with one instance of Apache. The solution involves running PHP using the CGI interface and not as an Apache module. Then the AddHandler and Action directives in the httpd.conf file may be configured so that any file ending with a ‘.php’ […]