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62 results found for Windows Power Tools, displaying items 1 - 20
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Control Your Licensing with Slmgr
Use Slmgr to change a product key or activate a system, extend your product-activation grace period, and determine whether your computer's license is a volume, retail, or OEM license.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Monitoring Server Core Event Logs
Wondering how to monitor a Server Core system's event log? Server Core and Windows Vista offer a powerful command-line event-log query and control tool called Wevtutil that can do it.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Putting the Finishing Touches on Server Core
To put a final polish on our Windows Server 2008 Server Core system, let’s set the system's time zone, configure its screen saver, and tweak its firewall.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Adjusting Screen Resolution on Server Core
Let’s continue our ongoing Server Core configuration effort by changing the display resolution. Without a GUI, you’ll have to use the registry.
Windows IT Pro
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Jason Bovberg
Server Core from Afar
Let's continue our ongoing Server Core configuration effort by setting up remote administration. The potent combination of WinRM and Winrs makes it possible.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Fine-tune Server Core’s IP Stack with Netsh
To get Server Core’s network stack set up, you can use the Netsh utility, which has gone through some recent changes. Here’s how to use the latest incarnation.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Go Commando with Windows Server 2008’s Server Core
Get a basic Windows Server 2008 Server Core up and running by heeding these two creative tips.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Control Windows Server 2008 Roles and Features
With the Computer Management console missing from Server 2008, you need an efficient way to configure your servers and roll them out. Your best bet is to go to the command line with the ServerManagerCmd, Ocsetup, and Oclist tools.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Defrag from Windows Vista’s Command Line
Every new Windows version seems to come with a new defrag tool, and Vista is no exception. But its GUI-based defragmenter leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s how you can use the OS’s Defrag command-line tool to do more.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Decommission Old Computers with Cipher
We’ve talked about EFS’s encryption functionality for a couple months. Now, let’s focus on its ability to overwrite the hard disks of decommissioned systems.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Manage Your EFS Keys with Cipher
The Cipher command-line tool can help you get a handle on key management and recovery—essential to any EFS user.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Protect Your Data with Cipher
To get a real sense of EFS's file-protection power, you need to be using the command-line encryption/decryption tool Cipher. Here's an overview of Cipher's syntax and options.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Scregedit Streamlines Server Core
Are you a little rusty with the command line? A little wary of Server Core? Scregedit, a registry tool built specifically to aid the Server Core experience, comes to your rescue.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
The Final For
In this last of three For columns, learn how the tool's /f option lets you tell Windows to apply a single command to a specific list of files.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Counting on For
Need a way to generate 501 user accounts? No? I bet you'll want to try it after reading this column.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
The Power of For
You can use an age-old, powerful Windows utility—the For command—to add wildcard support to the Chml integrity-level tool.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Thwarting Integrity Attacks with Chml
We dive more deeply into integrity levels by showing you how to use last month's Chml utility to assume the System integrity level.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Chml Fills the Gap
In response to an Icacls shortcoming, Mark creates a freely downloadable tool called Chml, which lets you further your integrity-level experiments.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Icacls Shows Integrity
We continue our investigation of Icacls by focusing on the tool's ability to set integrity levels.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
Icacls: The New and Improved Cacls?
Icacls is a new permissions-focused command-line tool in Vista. Although it appears to be a complete Cacls replacement, it’s not. Here's how it differs.
Windows IT Pro
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Mark Minasi
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