PING might undoubtedly be one of the most used command by administrators. The ping utility was written by Mike Muuss in December 1983 as a tool to troubleshoot problems in an IP network. He was inspired by a remark by David Mills on using ICMP echo packets for IP network Read more…
In a large organization with many employees, groups, devices an inactive account can become security and auditing nightmare. Normally established company policies take care of de provisioning a account when it is not needed but a extra check on the part of administrator would always be a pro active step Read more…
WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is the technique for querying and changing basic information about any windows server, including SQL Server or Exchange Server. ItĀ provides logical representation and structure of systems and services hosted on the server. Some of the examples of tasks you can do with WMI – Working Read more…
Inside a fairly sized organisation all computers are connected to a domain using Active Directory which manages how computersĀ and usersĀ should be organised, secured, connected. To maximize security the server admin does many tasks – Specifying how you should handle your password is one of them. Default Password Policies in Active Read more…