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Providing Last-Mile Desktop and Application Lockdown with PolicyPak
In this video post, Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP and founder of PolicyPak software walks us through his Group Policy add-on, PolicyPak, and shows how you can deliver Group Policy settings over VDI to lock down applications.
Managing Local User Accounts with Windows PowerShell
In the first part of this series, PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks demonstrated how to create a local user account with Windows Powershell. In this follow-up article, Jeff walks you through some basic management tasks accomplished with PowerShell.
How to Recover Deleted and Lost Files
Anyone who has relied on a hard drive or other storage device has probably lost an important file. It may be due to accidental deletion, data corruption, or merely a change of mind - "Shoot, I shouldn't have deleted that file!". The good news is that these files can almost always be restored. In this post, we walk you through a few simple steps to recover those lost files.
IPv6 Header vs IPv4 Header
Since the IPv4 address space will soon be replaced, now is a great time to familiarize yourselves with IPv6. In this post, Sean Wilkins discusses the differences between the IPv6 header and the IPv4 header.
4 Reasons ReFS (Resilient File System) is Better Than NTFS
Resilient File System (ReFS) is a new file system introduced in Windows Server 2012, which, before long, we will all be using on our boot partitions. In this post, Michael Simmons explains how ReFS will likely replace NTFS completely within the next versions of Windows, and why you will love this new file system.
8 Reasons Windows 8 Tablets will make a Splash in the Enterprise
Will Windows 8 tablets offer valuable and compelling features for the enterprise? The excitement surrounding Windows 8 is unmistakable, but everyone seems to have this question in mind. John O'Neill, Sr. shows how these tablets can add value to organizations, and why they will most certainly make a splash in the enterprise.
Networking Fundamentals - Volume 1: The Basics of Application Monitoring
This guide, available from SolarWinds is for those with a basic knowledge of applications, networks and network management, and shows how and why application monitoring requires you to monitor specific server processes/daemons and services, protocol ports, and the user experience.
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