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Serving the Web

April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, Concepts, How To, How To Keep Secure, Internet, Tips & Techniques

Securing your IIS 6.0 installation is an important task. The amount of work required can vary greatly depending on the complexity of your application as well as your infrastructure and how these combine with your need to secure content. Too often, Web server security is seen as merely a series of steps taken to tighten [...]

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Group Policy Object Modeling in Windows Server 2008

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Setup, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows Server 2008

If you have ever done much work with group policies, then you have undoubtedly found out that managing group policies are an organization wide basis can be a complicated endeavor. That’s primarily due to the hierarchical nature of group policies. Group policy settings can be applied at the OU, site, domain, and local computer levels. [...]

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Creating a Group Policy Central Store

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Tips & Techniques

One of the issues that sometimes made managing group policies difficult in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003 was the non centralized nature of the group policy template files. For example, Microsoft offers downloadable templates that allow you to manage Microsoft Office via group policy. Even so, these templates are not automatically available from [...]

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Backing Up Group Policy Objects

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Keep Secure

Introduction Not too long ago I got a call from a friend who was having some problems related to group policy objects on his network. My friend made a habit of backing up his domain controllers on a regular basis. Even so, someone in the organization have made some changes to some group policy objects, [...]

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How to install an SSH Server in Windows Server 2008.

April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Setup, Operating Systems, Q & A, Technology, Windows Server 2008

Introduction There are a number of command line options available to configure Window Server 2008 over the network. For example, Windows Powershell, ServerManager.exe, or a telnet server. However, the tried and true method that has worked so well with just about every type of infrastructure device in use today (including Windows Server 2008, Cisco Routers, [...]

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Using Windows Server as a NAT Router

April 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Setup, Tips & Techniques

This article walks you through the configuration process for using Windows Server as a NAT router for setting up an isolated test network that has Internet connectivity. Introduction Recently I needed to set up a test network in my office which uses a DSL router to connect to the Internet. The test network needed to [...]

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Ten Reasons to Switch to an IP PBX

April 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Q & A, Technology

This article explains the top 10 benefits of an IP PBX which provide a compelling reason to throw out the old PBX and replace it with a new IP PBX. The article also provides a brief explanation of what an IP PBX is, how it works in a computer network and how it integrates with [...]

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Using SCW on Windows Server 2008

April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Maintain Windows, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows Server

Back in 2005, Microsoft shipped Windows Server 2003 SP1. That service pack introduced the first roles-based security management tool for Windows: the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW). Microsoft designed SCW to be an attack surface reduction tool first and foremost. Its purpose was to analyze what you were actually doing with your computer and automatically configure [...]

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