Active Directory, as many know, is the life blood of the domain environment. It provides all authentication, user/group management and access control to the network. So what do you do when it is broken? There are many scenarios that can cause Active Directory to encounter issues; Replication, Low Disk Space, Drive Failures and Power Outages. In [...]
As many Windows Vista users know, Vista can be a real resource hog. This could not be more true on machines that are a few years old or upgraded to Vista from XP. As a Vista user, I have figured out a few ways to alleviate some of the slow down. Most of these methods [...]
Some of the hype that has surronded Windows Vista is the new User Interface named Aero. While Aero is nice, I prefer my Ubuntu box with Beryl. I found a great video demonstrating the capabilities of each. I am for Ubuntu! I have a very simulay setup on my Ubuntu laptop (ThinkPad T60 – Ubunto [...]
After working with Windows XP and computers in general for years now, I have seen my fare share of issues at boot time but this is one of my favorites. I am not going to go into full detail in this article, you can find a link to the actual Microsoft article at the bottom [...]
These days, there are more and more people surfing the Internet and as you may expect, there are more and more threats to personal information and computer operation. That is why I am writing this short guide to Safe Computing. These are basic guidelines that you can use to reduce the threat of virus, spy-ware [...]
Blackberry, while a great smart phone, does not have any built in capabilities to Sync with an Exchange Server (Active Sync) like Windows Mobile and others do. There is one alternative to this and that is to forward a copy of the incoming email to a particular user to the devices email address. Here is [...]
From time to time, I find the need to enable Remote Desktop connections on remote machines (When it is not enabled on a client and I need to log into that PC). Luckily there is a neat little way to accomplish this, as long as you have Administrative rights to the remote computer and can [...]
