Thursday, July 27, 2006

Six tips for using Remote Desktop to manage remotely hosted servers
Includes tips on how to replacements for RDP. More...

Q. What's the best way to set registry settings per OU in Group Policy Object Editor?
Above question is from mcpmag.com forum

One of the answers is to use the RegToADM component of NUTS (See Yizar's site)

Also worth looking at are WSH scripts to manage Registry at Activexperts.com

Friday, July 21, 2006

Qcheck
"Simply the easiest way to go if you want to dig in and do your own testing on networking equipment. It's basically a subset of Ixia's more powerful IxChariot network performance testing program with an easy-to-use interface, and best of all....it's free! You do have to fill out a form to request the download because Ixia hopes that you'll like what you see and want to buy the full-featured Chariot, but that's a small price to pay for such a handy tool". More on Qcheck / Download Form

Blacklight - Rootkit Remover
Apprently this is a highly-respected rootkit remover. More...

Threadmaster
Take control of errant threads. Can be used on Terminal Servers. More...

Thursday, July 20, 2006

How To Boot From A USB Flash Drive
a) Using Windows More...
b) Using Linux More...

Corrupt TCP/IP Stack
Rather than reinstall Windows..."the preferred method - is to reset TCP/IP to the default state at the time when the OS was installed. You can use the NetShell (netsh.exe) utility to do that. When you reset TCP/IP, it will rewrite all the important keys in the registry, which has the effect of removing and reinstalling the entire TCP/IP stack." More...

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Server virtualization
Getting started guide from searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com More...

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Webmin
Handy Linux tool, "a clever web based administration tool is great for quickly changing configurations and performing daily tasks" More...

InjectedDLL
"a small utility that displays the list of DLLs that are automatically injected on every process in your system" More...

Monday, July 10, 2006

Ophcrack
"The fastest Windows password cracker" More...