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I recently needed to archive a bunch of old home directories on a CIFS share mounted on my Windows XP virtual machine. I wanted each home directory to be archived independently so that I would have lots of smaller zip files rather than one huge one. Additionally, maintaining the directory …
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If you have an interest in information security from a technical or managerial point of view, check out Principles of Information Security. It does an excellent job of presenting material for both audiences.
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One of the more underrated tools included with Microsoft Windows Server is Network Monitor. Network Monitor is a packet capture tool that allows network administrators to gain insight into what network traffic is being sent and received by the server. This data can be useful in diagnosing various network problems …
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I was involved in a project to apply a maintenance release to an existing Lotus
Domino installation running on Windows Server 2003. The goal was to upgrade the
server from version 6.5.5 to 6.5.6. During the upgrade process, the installer
checks the version of Domino that …
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When using Microsoft Excel in a business environment, there are five essential items that every user should be aware of. One of the most basic features that is essential to effective spreadsheet usage is cell referencing. This is the ability for one cell to use the value of another cell …
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As discussed previously, we're going to enable RFC 1323 Window Scaling and increase the default TCP receive and send windows to 1 MB. By default Windows 2000 and XP do not offer window scaling options, but will accept them if offered by the other side. To make our changes, we'll …
