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by Marcin Policht The best ways of collecting upgrade information (+ a book recommendation) An important step in preparing for Win2000 upgrade is collecting of information about hardware and software compatibility level. One of the ways of simplifying this process is use of Windows 2000 Readiness Analyzer (downloadable and free) which can be used for […]

by Marcin Policht Microsoft stresses that planning for Windows 2000 deployment is critical. Take this advice seriously, since the implications of a bad design can be serious. Here is a couple of points to keep in mind: Microsoft stresses that planning for Windows 2000 deployment is critical. Take this advice seriously, since the implications of […]

by Marcin Polchit How to deal with DLL conflicts in Win2000. The concept of dynamic linking between shared software components in Windows was supposed to provide significant benefits by saving disk space and precious memory (since only single instance of software component was needed by many applications) and by simplifying software fixes and maintenance (problems […]

by Marcin Policht The January edition of Windows 2000 Magazine featured a thorough review of Quota-Management tools. The products presented – WQuinn’s QuotaAdvisor 4.1, Northern’s Quota Server 5.0c, NTP Software’s Quota Sentinel, and Tool4ever’s SpaceGuard 4.2 – offer an attractive alternative to limited functionality provided with built-in quota management in Windows 2000. However, they don’t […]

By Marcin Policht The second article in Marcin Policht’s ‘Accessing Active Directory via Active Server Pages’ series addresses authentication issues when accessing information stored in Active Directory via Web-based Active Server Pages scripts. In the first article of this series, I presented a sample script embedded in an ASP page that accessed Windows 2000 Active […]

Jason Zandri’s latest article in the Learning Windows XP Professional in 15 Minutes a Week series covers the Remote Assistance feature. Welcome to this week’s installment of Learn Windows XP Professional in 15 minutes a week, the 16th in this series. This article will cover the Windows XP Professional Remote Assistance feature. Windows XP Professional […]

by Dana Daugherty Security is probably one of the least exciting points of any system but arguably one of the most important. If implemented properly SMS may be a real power tool for your admin tasks. Improper security planning could be too restrictive for your support staff to help you. Worse yet, lax security with […]

By Marcin Policht In this series’ previous article, I explained that double-hop authentication using NTLM protocol is not possible. I also presented one alternative solution using delegation that was limited, however, only to Windows 2000 native mode Active Directory domains. In this article, I’ll discuss other solutions that can be used to bypass the “double-hop” […]

by Dana Daugherty By applying the appropriate switches this utility can be used to turn Travel Mode on or off and turn prompts on or off. This utility is a must for SMS implementations with multiple sites that have traveling laptop users. Dana Daugherty keeps us up to date on the Traveling Mode issues, identifies […]

by Dana Daugherty This a document that I compiled for other IT staff within my organization. The idea was to give them a broad but thorough, high-level overview of the functionality of SMS in layman’s terms. I’m sure some of you have the same need.  This a document that I compiled for other IT staff […]

by Jason Zandri www.2000trainers.com Welcome to the 16th installment of Learn Active Directory Design and Administration in 15 Minutes a Week, a weekly series aimed at current IT professionals preparing to write the new Windows Active Directory Design and Administration exams (70-219 and 70-217 respectively), as well as newcomers to the field who are trying […]

by Dana Daugherty Client Connection Account Lockout — I know there has been quite a lot of information available on this issue. In this article, I have attempted to compile information from a few Q articles and my own experience with with problem. Also, in the Solution section there is a plan for rotating connection […]