Amid the praise for and complaints about the newer version of webmail, we received a plea from a netbook user. She pointed out that the new layout made it very difficult to navigate among her mail folders. I use a netbook myself, and I thought I’d share some things that we can do to improve [...]
Back in the day, I was a good Windows admin and did my administration using the Windows Server admin tools from my workstation, logged in with a non-admin user, using the RunAs shell feature (shift+right-click) to start the admin tool with administrator credentials. Vista’s “Run as administrator” feature will run a program with elevated (i.e., [...]
Service restarts on some hosts. Looked into automating some periodic restarts. One app vendor suggests using SQL Agent. I don’t really like the idea of using SQL Agent for non-database tasks. Found an interesting exercise in CMD batch file writing in a Microsoft script to restart IIS services. Powershell is another possibility. Problems with SharePoint [...]
In deploying a server, today, I forgot to enable the Remote Desktop service for administration of the system, and I hadn’t yet joined it to the domain. I was pretty sure that it would be possible to change the setting via the registry, so a quick google search turned up this: psexec \\machinename reg add [...]
Geoffrey Duke
Sr. System Administrator,
University of Vermont