It is important to have a strong local administrator password on each system, and this password must be changed periodically. If it is not, that...
Active Directory Reports
Desktop Central’s Active Directory Reports provides around 100 out of the box reports which includes User Account Reports – locked users, disabled users, unused users,...
Group Policy (GPO) technolgy knowledgebase links
I should have bloged about this topic, bit earlier.. before discussing about the new Group Policy settings improvements in 2003 and Vista. Here are the...
Securing the Network from Removable storage
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 added lot of settings to Group Policy. Windows Vista is coming in with even more new settings to Group...
User Login Tracking from Desktop Central
Here i’ll discuss various methodologies available or i’ve used for user login tracking. The Lazy man’s way… I love Kevin Weilbacher’s simple script which is...
Service Pack 2 for Desktop Central 4 released
Phew.. finally its out, the most awaited Service Pack 2 for Desktop Central is released :D. This service pack explicitly focuses on Active Directory Reports....
10 important GPO security settings for administrators
This blog is a reproduction of an article from Microsoft Technet Magazine, Spring 2005, titled “10 Easy Ways To Lock Down Your Computer.” The author,...
Preventive Maintenance for hard disks in Desktop Central
In continuation to my earlier blog about improving the performance of desktops, this post has some information regarding the initiatives that Desktop Central had taken...
Improve your desktop’s performance
Here are the simple tips to improve your desktop’s performance using the builtin tools provided by Microsoft. This basically concentrates on Disk related operations. The...