Study: Windows 7 Adoption Among Top IT Trends Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a way to create easy-to-remember passwords Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications Apple Safari and Firefox most vulnerable Copyright  Read More →

Free Tools Can Fix Windows Shortcut Vulnerability  WPA2-secured Wi-Fi networks vulnerability  Cloud Computing Adoption Surpasses 50%, But Concerns Loom Brewing Coup Against Microsoft CEO? Copyright  Read More →

Submitted by Martin Schvartzman – Blog: Scripts, Utilities and Tips for the SysAdmin Sometimes, SOX regulations, customer agreement or your boss, forces you to have the password periodically changed for all service accounts and/or accounts running scheduled tasks. So instead of having a detailed list of who (the user account) runs what (the service or scheduled task) where (on which computer), and manually change the password at the GUI,... 

Office 2010 at $9.95 for Volume Licensing Corporate Employees’ Home Use System Center Service Manager 2010 Configuration Pack now available Internet Explorer deemed least vulnerable browser Why Solid State Drives Won’t Replace Spinning Disk Copyright  Read More →

Those running SharePoint 2007 already know the major enhancements that this Software can bring to the corporate culture. With SharePoint 2010 the products strengths are developed further. Here, you can find a short summary of the improvements and new features of SharePoint 2010. Due to the vast positive changes SharePoint 2010 brings, most companies want to migrate to the new software as quickly as possible. Basically, Microsoft supports two... 

11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day: July 30, 2010 (Last Friday Of July)  Sysinternals Updates: TCPView v3.0, Autoruns v10.02, ProcDump v1.81, Disk2vhd v1.61  Sysinternals Suite updated Internet Explorer 8 has blocked 1 billion attempts to download malware! Microsoft sells 10 Windows 7 licenses per second It appears Win7 adoption is accelerating. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 VHD  Copyright  Read More →

Unlocker is a free tool that allows you to unlock a file that you can’t delete, rename, or move because it is opened in another program. The unlock tool adds a menu point to Windows Explorer, which makes it quite convenient for getting rid of persistent files. When I tested Unlocker with an opened Word file, the tool had no …  Read More →

Spiceworks 5.0 beta is out!  Microsoft reports record fourth quarter results  Microsoft escapes Apple assault with record Q4, FY revenue  Maybe next year when the iPay will be released… Secunia ranks Apple first in software insecurity  Does Microsoft have a secret weapon for Windows Phone 7? VMware VDI market share down to 39% in three years, Citrix up to 50% says Goldman Sachs Mary Jo Foley confesses: “I bought an iPad”... 

Sandboxie is a very lightweight Windows sandbox that — guess what — runs applications in a sandbox. This Windows sandbox is completely detached from your Windows installation. So if the website or application starts to do malicious things, everything stays inside the box. No registry keys are set, and nothing is written on your hard disk. You can find the Sandboxie homepage here . Keeping your computer secure and tidy is a tedious but necessary... 

Microsoft issues tool to repel Windows shortcut attacks Microsoft may face tough patch job with Windows shortcut bug Deploying Microsoft RemoteFX for Virtual Desktop Pools Step-by-Step Guide ‘Cheap’ Heads-Up Virtual Reality System Combines 3D Visuals With Tactile Feedback A feature for the Win8 wish list? Finally! A sandbox for Adobe Reader  Copyright  Read More →

Sumatra PDF viewer is a free portable PDF reader that requires only 1.647 KB. Since the PDF viewer is a standalone tool, you can run it from a USB stick or on a server where you don’t want to install a PDF reader. Another advantage over Adobe’s PDF reader is that Sumatra PDF viewer starts up very quickly. PDF is ubiquitous and many manuals are in PDF nowadays. It is annoying if you have to configure an application on a user’s... 

Spiceworks 5.0 (free network management software) is coming this September  Great new features Microsoft says Windows 7 Service Pack 1 due in first half 2011  TrueCrypt 7 is available Microsoft confirms ‘nasty’ Windows zero-day bug  Microsoft Security Essentials vNext Now in Beta Deploying Windows 7 – Part 28: Managing Software Updates Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) Update on July 22nd Windows Server 2008... 

Submitted by Ondrej Vysek – Blog: optimalizovane-IT Bored with updating multiple Windows images in a single WIM file? Bored with checking for new updates and installing patches from Windows Update? Don’t want to patch every VHD file manualy? Imagepatcher is a script that allows you to automate the whole process. The script detects all required updates for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 (sorry no Vista and Windows Server 2008 support),... 

NirSoft’s DNSDataView is a free DNS lookup tool with a graphical user interface (GUI) for Windows that can replace the nslookup command in most use cases. You need an nslookup tool when you want to query your local or an external DNS server. DNSDataView supports the most important query types: MX (mail exchanger record), NS (name server record), A (address record), SOA …  Read More →

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