If you are a Windows system administrator you sometimes have to manage a computer’s user accounts. You might want to check all the user accounts, list their status, enable or disable them or reset a password for a specific account. This can be all done from the command line without lots of effort if the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Fing Network Discovery Software
The network discovery software Fing has been born out of the ashes of the much acclaimed Look@Lan network monitoring and discovery software. The project is still in an early stage and comes with a command line version for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh operating system. This might turn away users who do not [...]
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Configure Fine-grained Password Policies In Windows Server 2008
So called fine-grained password policies are a new feature of Windows Server 2008. This new feature allows system administrators to configure password policies for different user groups. Windows Server 2003 was not as flexible as it only allowed to set one password policy for all users. The manual configuration of fine-grained password policies requires quite [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Windows System Control Center
If you ask Windows system administrators about their favorite non commercial software publishers the names Nirsoft and Sysinternals will be mentioned without doubt lots of times. Both produce high quality software that can be useful in many occasions. Windows System Control Center is a frontend for Nirsoft and Sysinternals software programs. The portable software displays [...]