Monthly Archives: January 2010
Q&A Monday: Hard Drive Wipe
Question: At my company we are throwing out a bunch of older computers, and I want to make sure that all the data on the computer and servers are completely non recoverable, is there an easy way to do this?Answer: I’ve seen two major approaches to this kind of problem. One of them is the…
Windows Printer Pooling
You may run into a situation where you need to pool a bunch of printers together and have the jobs printed to them spread out amongst different printers. One example is if you company prints a bunch of reports on a regular basis. Printing to just one printer (depending on the size of your…
Virtualized Domain Controllers
I got a call yesterday from my old job, it was the software specialist who was having problems with the VMWare 3.51 server which I installed a couple of months before I left. Though by the time I was able to get a break and call them back, but it got me thinking about my…
Q&A Monday: Domain Password Last Changed
Question: I am in a situation on where I need to find out when the last time a user changed their network password. Our domain policy forces the change in account passwords every 120 days, and a user is claiming that it’s been longer than that, I checked the GPO and everything looks OK, but…