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When you're configuring a new Microsoft Windows server that has multiple network interface cards (NICs), it's important that you disable any NICs that aren't plugged in to the network. If...
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Following good security practices, administrators should log on to their Windows XP workstations with restricted domain user accounts, not with domain administrator accounts. To avoid...
The need to show the current date (i.e., month, day, and year) in different formats is quite common. Although you can obtain the current date with Microsoft SQL Server's GETDATE function, getting the returned date...
One of the DBA's most important jobs is to perform nightly backups of Microsoft SQL Server machines. Microsoft SQL Server's GUI isn’t much help in documenting the backups taken for SAS 70 and other...
The Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins accounts are the keys to the kingdom. With Windows' default domain credential caching, password hashes for these important accounts are easily hacked. If you log on to a...
With Group Policy and AssignPrinters.vbs, assigning a printer is as simple as 1) adding a computer to a domain and 2) putting the computer in the appropriate OU