Information wants to be free!
Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 was launched, every time you try to run or open a file that has been downloaded from the Internet, or more correctly, from the Internet Zone in Internet Explorer. You are prompted with the following warning message: What this message does, basically, is to warn you that you …
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Everyone downloading from MSDN, the MCT Download Center or any other semi-open Microsoft download site, is familiar with the Microsoft File Transfer Manager application. It is a rather nice utility that is installed on your machine the first time you start a download from one of the sites I mentioned. It supports queuing and resume …
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I work extensively with multi-domain forests, usually in a configuration with an empty root domain and several child domains that host users and computers etc. The other day I was trying to log on to a newly added Domain Controller in a child domain. I was going to prepare the domain for Exchange so I …
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The Event Viewer management console has several categories depending on the roles of a server. All systems running Windows have Application, Security and System logs, or categories. These logs are represented by .evt files on disk, typically located in the %SystemRoot%system32config directory. When a system loses a role, eg. it is demoted from Domain Controller …
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