Month: January 2008

TCP/IP Configuration Settings Changes to TCP/IP Registry Values Settings Configurable Using the Registry Editor Settings Configurable from the User Interface   Download here.

In the past I used to work as a trainer. As a trainer you need to have a graspof the subjects that you teach. Your knowledge needs to be in-depth as you areconstantly surprised by the questions of delegates. To be able to grasp the materialyou need to understand the theory behind what you are attempting to teach. During the time that I taught I used to take on consulting jobs, to keep my hands dirty. At some stage I decided to stop training and I started to look for work in the field. A themethat used to come up … Continue reading Experience over Theory

The theory Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is an additional layer of security built into Vista andWindows 2008. This particular layer helps Windows protect itself from harmful intentional and unintentionalchanges to important objects. Among the objects protected we can find files, directories, registrykey, printers, and actually any object that has a security descriptor. The beauty of MIC is that it has been there in the background all along protecting you, yet you never knewit existed. You might have actually encountered it by trying to change a file that is protected by it, and eventhough you had the permission you couldn’t… The … Continue reading Mandatory Integrity Control (What,how and why do we care?)

Microsoft has built an area in it’s Windows Server website called Compare. Basically this areawill provide content that compares Windows Server to other environments. There severalinteresting screencasts and Webcasts there,take a look: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/windows-server-comparison-screencasts-and-webcasts.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx

If you need to know the time that elapsed between two operations you can use thethe following tool from Microsoft(windows 2000 resource kit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=913795CD-7026-4143-AE85-1F5E096F9BE0&displaylang=en ———————————–TIMETHIS  :  Command Timing Utility———————————– Usage : TIMETHIS “command”   TimeThis executes the command specified by its arguments, then reports its  run time in HH:MM:SS.TTT format.  Quotes around the command are required only  when the command involves redirection via <, >, >>, or |, etc.  Quotes ensure  that the redirection is applied to the command being timed, rather than the  TimeThis command itself.