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- Chily DC Monitor 9.09.01 (Windows)
- Chily DC Monitor software helps an administrator in monitoring and evaluating Domain Controller status and their performances. It comes as a free DC monitor tool that is used to track Domain Controller Performance Data. The performance data so generated keeps administrator updated with state of DC and its performance. Comprehensive...
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- DeviceLock 6.4 Build 21108 (Windows)
- Using DeviceLock from SmartLine, you can lock out unauthorized users from USB and FireWire devices, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters, CD-ROM and floppy drives, serial and parallel ports, and many other plug-and-play devices. You can define a discrete list of accounts that are able to administer (install, uninstall, modify permissions, and...
- Software downloads 2009-07-14
- Creating a Read Only Domain Controller on Windows Server 2008 Core Using the Install From Media (IFM) Option
- In Windows Server 2008, the combination of a Server Core installation and the Read Only Domain Controller role is ideal for Branch office deployments, but what happens if one has bandwidth constraints and don't want to replicate all the AD data across the wire? In this webcast, the presenter of...
- Webcasts 2009-01-05
- Windows Server 2008 Read Only Domain Controllers - Preparation and Deployment
- Read-only domain controllers are a new feature in Windows Server 2008 allowing domain controllers to be deployed in locations where security might otherwise be a concern (e.g. branch offices). In this webcast, the presenter shows viewers how to prepare an existing Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 before pre-staging and...
- Webcasts 2008-12-17
- JiJi Active Directory Reports 3.3 (Windows)
- JiJi Active Directory Reports ADR enables IT organizations to extract vital data from Active Directory in seconds after installation. ADR provides the best solution to meet Active Directory Reporting requirements. ADR has an extensive reports list with over 100 out of the box reports. Armed with thisinformation, organizations can quickly...
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- Sports Retailer Deploys Domain Controllers in Stores to Keep Registers Ringing
- A large a specialty retailer in the United States with approximately 450 stores wanted to update its older MS-DOS - based Point-Of-Sale POS application with a next-generation POS program from NCR. However, the new software required user authentication over the Wide Area Network WAN using domain controllers at headquarters. A...
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Securing Branch Office User Accounts
- The attendee of this webcast will see several ways that user accounts in a branch office can be secured. Branch offices traditional are a place of high risk for domain controllers. Placing domain controllers in branch offices good for functionality and productivity, but bad for security. This webcast shows how...
- Webcasts 2008-04-04
- Prosecutor's Office Puts Server System on Trial and Cuts Support Costs by at Least 30%
- The Rockingham County Attorney's office prosecutes criminal cases in the county, including cyber infractions, yet the domain controller they were using for day-to-day business was, if not a crime, at least erratic and unpredictable. This was no way to run a department focused on legal matters. The group needed a...
- Case studies 2008-03-06
- Regional Government Boosts the Security of Directory and Authentication Services
- Vastra Gotalandsregionen VGR is a 24,000-square-kilometer area in Sweden. The region's government consists of 37 separate entities that include hospitals as well as departments that promote culture and tourism. In the past, seven separate IT departments supported the entities. Over the last year, however, VGR consolidated its IT groups into...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Manufacturer Boosts Branch Office Security and Performance With Domain Controllers
- The HELLER Group, a leading producer of metal-cutting machine tools, employs approximately 2,300 people in 20 locations around the world. To minimize security risks posed by unsecured domain controllers, only nine branch offices had domain controllers to manage access to IT resources. Consequently, many employees had to log on to...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Microsoft readies new 'Centro' mid-market server test build
- Microsoft readies new 'Centro' mid-market server test buildI'll be buying Windows Small Business Server 2008.I'm saving my money until Microsoft releases WSBS08 during 2008.Certain small businessesmay do better with a mid-market server if the small business restrictions are taken away (i.e. only one domain controller, limit to database size, no...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- RPC DNS exploit can compromise your whole company
- Companies that havent applied the workarounds for the Microsoft DNS server flaw yet need to make it their top priority. This is NOT something that can wait for a planned weekly or monthly outage; the workarounds need to be applied immediately because of whats at stake. There is...
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Simplify Active Directory administration by mastering these essential tools
- Core Active Directory administration focuses on key tasks that are performed routinely with Active Directory directory service, such as creating computer accounts or joining computers to a domain. Master the tools you can use to manage Active Directory as well as specific techniques for managing computers, domain controllers, and organizational...
- Book chapters 2006-10-04
- Rescuing a failed domain controller: Disaster recovery in action
- When a Windows Server 2003 domain controller went belly up, network manager Louis Nel discovered firsthand that disasters don't happen in predictable ways. The situation was complicated by a series of failures (restoring AD from backup failed; transferring the FSMO roles from the server failed; seizing the roles resulted in...
- Download resources 2006-06-12
- Exchange System Manager and Domain Controller Selection
- Exchange System Manager itself can be considered a client of many other different services, for it has to obtain different types of information from different sources. For example, Exchange System Manager uses the Messaging Application Programming Interface MAPI to display information about mailbox resources as well as Windows Management Instrumentation...
- White papers 2006-02-21
- Active Directory Replication Over Firewalls
- Firewalls present two difficulties when deploying a distributed Active Directory AD directory service architecture - initially promoting a server to a domain controller, and replicating traffic between domain controllers. Active Directory relies on Remote Procedure Call RPC for replication between domain controllers. (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [SMTP] can be used...
- White papers 2006-01-31
- FreeNetEnumerator 1.2 (Windows)
- FreeNetEnumerator is a tool to enumerate computers in a domain. Depending on enumeration parameters the tool can work in different ways. It can enumerate all computers (if 'All Computers' is selected), all SQL servers only (if 'Microsoft SQL Servers' is selected ), all primary domain controllers only (if 'Primary domain...
- Software downloads 2005-11-01
- Linux in a Windows World: Using NT Domains for Linux Authentication
- If the existing network uses an NT domain or an Active Directory domain, the user may want to tap into the existing domain controller for Linux authentication. For instance, he or she might want a Linux POP server to use the existing Windows domain accounts. Doing so presents certain challenges,...
- Book chapters 2005-01-28
- Active Directory in Networks Segmented by Firewalls
- Active Directory domain controllers are increasingly being deployed on networks segmented by firewalls. Three common scenarios are (1.) domain controllers separated from clients in a DMZ, (2.) domain controllers in a DMZ separated from other domain controllers on the network, and (3.) networks divided into segments, each containing clients and...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Active Directory Disaster Recovery for Windows 2000
- Domain Controller requires more care and attention to detail than the equivalent operation in Windows NT 4.0. Domain Controllers can assume numerous roles within an Active Directory infrastructure: global catalogs, operations masters, and simple domain controllers. This paper describes the steps you use to recover the Active Directory database after...
- White papers 2001-04-08
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