Firefox on Windows 7 had been behaving…oddly. The app would simply stop working and exit to the desktop. Yet, parts of the Firefox kernel would remain in memory, making it impossible to restart the application without firing up Task Manager and manually killing the process. It happened a half dozen times a day. I was [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Operating Systems'
Troubleshooting Windows 7 With Microsoft’s Built-In Tools
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · How To, How To Troubleshoot, Maintain Windows, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows 7
Tags: Compatibility Troubleshooter·Computer Management·Microsoft's Built-In Tools·Reliability Monitor·Resource Monitor·System Info·windows 7·Windows 7 Troubleshooting·Windows Action Center
What’s User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista?
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Introductions, Operating Systems, Q & A, Technology, Windows Vista
Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breeches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no administrative [...]
Tags: Active Directory Domain·Domain Admins Group·Local Administrators Group·Security on Windows Vista·UAC·User Account Control·windows vista·Windows Vista UAC
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. [...]
Tags: GPO·GPO Modeling·Group Policy Modeling·Group Policy Object·WinServer 2008 GPO
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, [...]
Tags: Install SSH Server·Secure Shell·SSH·SSH Client Installations·SSH Server·SSH Server Options
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 [...]
Tags: SCW on Win Server 2008·SCW vs. Server Manager·Security Configuration Wizard·Security Management·Security Warch·Using SCW
Managing the Windows Vista Firewall
April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Maintain, Operating Systems, Tips & Techniques, Windows Vista
In this article, I go into more detail on some of the features in the Windows Vista® firewall that are specifically designed to ease enterprise management. And I will also be giving advice on how you can use them to make your job simpler and ensure your users are more secure. With the recent release [...]
Tags: Domain Isolation Rules·firewall·Firewall Rule Types·Firewall Rules·Manging Vista Firewall·Outbound Filtering·Vista Firewall
Introducing Windows Vista’s Active Directory Search Tool
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Introductions, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Vista
In this article I will show you how the Windows Vista Active Directory search tool works. I wish that I could have seen the look on my face the first time that someone at Microsoft told me that Vista was going to contain a special applet that would allow users to search the Active Directory. [...]
Tags: Active Directory·Active Directory Tool·Search Tool·windows vista
How can I add a new RDP listening port to Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Server?
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To Setup, Operating Systems, Q & A, Technology, Tips & Techniques, Windows Server
You cannot add a new listening port to your Terminal Server via the GUI (Terminal Server Configuration in Administrative Tools) because there is no option for changing the listening port via the GUI. What you need to do is create the new RDP listening port via the registry. Warning! This document contains instructions for editing [...]
Tags: Add RDP Port·Create RDP Port·RDP·RDP on Terminal Server·RDP Setup·Remote Desktop Protocol·Windows 2000 RDP Port·Windows 2003 RDP Port