Using a registry editor such as regedit32.exe, a local administrator can restrict a specific user from editing the registry on a machine running Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000. On the user's machine, log on...
In the Reader to Reader article "Create a Custom Toolbar," June 2004, InstantDoc ID 42524, Tim Fenner suggested creating a toolbar on each user's PC for common shortcuts that are stored locally or on a network. At my...
For a workgroup network, XP Pro provides Simple File Sharing (SFS). With SFS, administrators can easily set up file and folder sharing. By easy, I mean you don't need to set up the same user accounts among workgroup...
Sometimes the designers of applications are so conscience about rollout dates and budgets that these goals outweigh the good design and fault tolerance of the applications they're developing. This scenario recently...
DBAs often try to use dynamic SQL to support Web searches. It’s common practice to capture search data from Web pages and pass that data as parameters to a SQL Server stored procedure. The stored procedure then ...
At my company, we've been successfully using Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) for patch management for sometime now. We're also currently testing the beta version of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)...
For a project, I had to install Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems on several IBM eServer xSeries 455 servers. To ease the pain, I wanted to use an automated deployment solution...