File and printer sharing is used primarily for…you guessed it…sharing your files and printers. By default Vista is configued with these disabled. Many times file and printer sharing is also needed for remote administration tools that access the admin$ share. The first step to getting this to work is enabling an exception in the firewall. […]
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Since the release of Windows XP SP2 file and printer sharing has been blocked by default in the Windows firewall. This includes all versions of Vista, and even XP SP3. Heck the same is true for the pre-release versions of Windows 7 that I have looked at. This creates a problem for many of our […]
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File and Printer sharing is used for sharing printers and files. In addition, a special share, called the admin$ share is used to remotely manage and install software on Windows XP systems. By default file sharing is blocked in the firewall. What do you need to do to get this working under Windows XP? Here […]
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If you have not used their tools before, I highly recommend taking a stroll over to www.sysinternals.com They have just released updates to Process Monitor, Autoruns, Disk Usage, and Process Explorer Here are some of the highlights: Process Monitor v2.03: This update to Process Monitor, a real-time file, registry, process and network monitor, adds the […]
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I was making the rounds this weekend to visit family and friends. I was asked the usual…”um while you are here…do you think you could take a look at a little computer problem we are having?” In each case, the system was loaded with spyware. The funny part is all of them were using Comcast, […]
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I came across an interesting bunch of statistics the other day when researching a problem I was having. These are the maximum limits for Active Directory -Maximum number of GPOs that can apply to a user/computer: 999 -Maximum number of DNS servers in an AD-integrated zone (without manually adding the details): 850 (Windows 2000), 1300 […]
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Microsoft released the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to MSDN subscribers on Tuesday. In a few postings found on Microsoft Blogs they indicated that the service will not only update Vista, but will also work with 2008 Server. I decided to take a peek at my MSDN account, and indeed it is available […]
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Security researchers at Microsoft last week warned of a significant increase in exploits of the SMB flaw in Windows. The flaw was patched with an emergency fix last month. Microsoft again urged users to install the patch if they have not already done so. The patch can be found here Microsoft’s malware protection center said […]
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I am using the Thanksgiving holiday as a perfect time to upgrade our internal servers. I had already installed 2008 at our main site, and the backup site. Since everything was already running I could do it from home using our IntelliAdmin Remote Control. Within a few hours I got all the files in place, […]
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I lied. This is not the 5 sins of Windows 7, but the 5 sins of Vista undone. When Vista was first released I wrote an article titled “The 5 Sins of Vista” Each Sin was a bug or issue with Vista that I thought needed to be fixed. Lets look at all 5 of […]
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