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Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:03 AM

Separation of Duties

The movie Crimson Tide is one of my all-time favorites, not only because I like submarine movies, and the actors and production were superb, but also because it deals more on the management aspects of an organization, in this case the USS Alabama . This...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:29 PM

AD Group Policy Design Principles

Finally we go to Group Policies. Personally, I find this feature one of the more compelling reasons to make the move to Active Directory. Properly designing and implementing it. Group Policy processing rules of thumb These are my 5 rules of thumb I tried...
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Friday, August 25, 2006 12:33 AM

AD Site and Replication Design Principles

When I first saw what Active Directory was before the launch of Windows 2000, I got hooked on the fact that Active Directory can now locate resources and conduct replication based on IP addresses. This has been a different case in the Windows NT directory...
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Friday, July 21, 2006 10:57 PM

AD Organizational Unit Design Principles

Organizational Units (OU's) are containers within domains. They are the elements of hierarchical structure within domains Characteristics of the Organizational Unit (OU) OU's offer the best method to organize the hierarchical structure in Active...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:47 AM

Holy Week Planned Downtime is Fast Approaching

Two weeks from now would be Holy Week. From Thursday Apr 12 to Saturday Apr 15, holiday would be declared as was customary. Usually Wednesday is declared half-day. People would be planning their getaways, some of a religious nature, some otherwise. Nevertheless...
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Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:31 AM

The Basics of Software Asset Management Practice

During its inception, Microsoft founder Bill Gates made it a corporate mission to place a PC on every desk and on every home. That has become a reality in a sense today, since most of the work we do in the office, at school and even at home involves using...
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:23 PM

The End of Exchange 5.5 Server

It's the first day of December. While everybody is thinking about Christmas, companies using Exchange 5.5 are worrying about the End of its Extended Support Cycle on December 31st. So it's time to prep up for the migration process. Here's what organizations...
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:21 AM

Highlights on ISA Server 2004 from the ISA Hands-on Lab I attended

I just came from a hands-on lab for ISA Server 2004 and Sybari Antigen, and got these highlights. I know some of them prior to this training already, but I did not really appreciate these features until now ISA Server inspects the payload of the IP packets...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:16 AM

Security is a State of Mind

Security training is important for all network administrators of all organizations. This, however, poses a challenge for smaller organizations that simply do not have the budget to send anyone to high-cost security training. Let it not be a hindrance...
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