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From the editor:
Test your IT skills |
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Featured Topic:
A printer management playbook |
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Expert Technical Advice:
Featured Expert: Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy
Site Exclusives:
>>Expert Webcast: Command-line control of Terminal Services
>>Microsoft to beef up SMTP relay for Exchange
>>Oops! True IT blooper #127: A tale of two drills
Tip of the Week: Microsoft's new online training options |
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Site Highlights:
White Paper: Data protection via replication
White Paper: Major techniques for classifying spam
White Paper: The financial aspects of PC fleet Management |
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by Matt Danielsson, Associate Editor
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We have our first quiz winner!
Two weeks ago we started a new feature on this site called the Know-IT-All Chapter Quiz. It is a challenging 10-question quiz to test your skills in a specific area related to that week's featured chapter download. It was an instant success with thousands of readers taking the quiz. Several dozen sent in their scores to participate in the weekly book giveaway, and we are happy to present our first winner.
The very first Know-IT-All Chapter Quiz prize, a crisp copy of Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies: The Ultimate Administrator's Repair Manual, went to SearchWin2000.com member Randy Shufeldt. Randy, a bold antivirus warrior, works in the IT department of the Multnomah County Sheriff's office in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations!
This week you can win a copy of Windows Server 2003 Pocket Administrator. This is a handy, portable resource for busy network administrators with clear and concise information for daily on-the-job tasks. The featured chapter is about security and identity servers -- a key topic for any administrator. Download the chapter, read it and take the quiz -- then send us your score for a chance to win!
Click here to read Chapter 4, 'Administering Identity Servers,' from Windows Server 2003 Pocket Administrator and then take the quiz for this chapter.
You can also view older chapters and take past quizzes in our chapter archive. You can't win any books, but you just may gain that crucial piece of knowledge that saves you tons of trouble down the road. And that is worth much more than any book prize.
Click here to read Chapter 7, 'Disk Subsystems,' from Troubleshooting Microsoft Technologies: The Ultimate Administrator's Repair Manual and then test yourself.
Click here to read Chapter 2, 'Administering File and Print Servers,' from Windows Server 2003 Pocket Administrator and then take the quiz.
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A printer management playbook
by Christine Polewarczyk, Editor
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Printer management is a fact of life for most network administrators. Consider this Featured Topic required reading for understanding the ins and outs of setting up, fine tuning and troubleshooting those persnickety peripherals.
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Expert Technical Advice: |
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Featured Expert: Jeremy Moskowitz
Category: Group Policy
Dear Jeremy:
I'm having problems pushing group policy to remote users. I have organizational units set up with policies on each. Some of our remote users are in these OUs, and I want them to be on the same level as the home office. Once connected to the VPN, they log onto Windows. This should technically log them onto the domain, but it doesn't appear the policies are pushed properly. I've already tried the /refreshpolicy from the cmd line. Ideas?
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Click here to read Jeremy's expert response.
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Site Exclusives:
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Expert Webcast: Command-line control of Terminal Services
In this webcast, you'll learn from Terminal Services guru Christa Anderson about a free tool that lets you configure terminal server settings from the command
line -- even for Windows 2000 terminal servers. You'll also find out how
to use VBScript to configure Windows 2003 Server settings. (Don't
worry if you don't already know how to use VBScript; you'll learn
some basics, then find out where to go for more detailed information.) |
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Microsoft to beef up SMTP relay for Exchange
As part of its effort to combat spam and viruses, Microsoft has announced that it will make improvements to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) relay for its Exchange messaging platform. |
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Oops! True IT blooper #127: A tale of two drills
If you drill in the mainframe server room wall and hit something solid an inch into the wall, you have two choices: You can stop or you can keep going. Jim Forsyth kept going. The result? Probably not what you'd think! |
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| Tip of the Week: |
| Microsoft has announced a battery of e-learning courses for Windows
Server 2003 topics. These offerings either partially or completely
meet published training requirements for a number of Windows Server
2003 certification exams. All classes also include virtual online
practice labs to address the need for hands-on interaction. Read this tip to learn more and to see the course listings. |
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Microsoft's new online training options |
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White Paper: Data protection via replication
Take a look at the challenges that enterprises are facing in protecting data at remote locations and branch offices and identify ways in which to meet these challenges head on.
Learn to protect your data better with this white paper.
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White Paper: Major techniques for classifying spam
Find new methods for capturing spam on both transport and content levels. Also, discover methods of identifying spam: fingerprint and lexical analysis, artificial intelligence, and more.
Don't let spam cost your organization -- read this white paper.
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White Paper: The financial aspects of PC fleet Management
Reduce PC support costs with proper PC fleet management.
Delaying PC acquisitions may seem like a sound business move to preserve capital, but what about support costs and increased enterprise risk? Find an optimum PC lifecycle -- in conjunction with fleet management best practices -- that delivers better business value while reducing total costs.
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