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Tabbed Remote Desktop
I visit a lot of clients and work work with a lot of different admins and one the recurring themes for many of these admins is having multiple – three...
Windows Activation: Troubleshooting and Monitoring the KMS
As I've described in the previous two installments, the KMS is a pretty simple and straight-forward service. When you think about, this makes sense...
Server Manager vs. Computer Manager
Server Manager is the much talked about new, all-in-one, handy-dandy MMC snap-in to manage Windows Server 2008 systems. It provides most of the same functionality...
I Am Better Than You...
That's what I like to tell a system when I solve a particularly troublesome problem; sometimes I even pound on my chest. I know: what a geek. The problem...
Posted: Jun 10 2008, 05:55 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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Powershell
As Microsoft begins incorporating PowerShell into more and more products, most admins are wondering how to get their feet wet. The way that I've been...
Posted: Dec 13 2007, 05:38 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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To Partition or Not to Partition...
I visited a customer once who felt that creating partitions ended up creating problems; he felt that limiting the C drive to a specific size would eventually...
Posted: Aug 02 2007, 05:31 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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My friend, your friend; My friend, your friend; My friend, your friend
Early in my career, I knew a UNIX admin that liked to tell me "vi is your friend". I eventually came to believe that statement and although I...
Posted: Aug 02 2007, 05:30 PM by jsandys | with no comments
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Admin Tools
As an administrator of a lot of Windows systems, I can get by with using all of the built-in tools. There's very little that I cannot do using them...
Posted: Aug 02 2007, 05:29 PM by jsandys | with 2 comment(s)
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