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A Quick Tip To Strict FRS Replication To A Specific Port: Date - Oct 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry heck which can be used to strict FRS Replication to a specific port.
A Quick Tip To Strict AD Replication To A Specific Port: Date - Oct 22, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry entry which can be used to strict the AD Replication traffic to a specific port.
A Quick Tip To Place Authenticating DC In DFS Referral List: Date - Oct 08, 2009; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains a registry entry which can be used to place the authenticating domain controller on top of the DFS Referral list.
How To Use DsQuery To Find All The Domain Controllers In The Domain or Forest?: Date - Oct 01, 2009; Rating - 3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; Section - Active Directory; This article explains DsQuery commands which you can use to find all the domain controllers.

Change default application installation folder: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Installation
Disable Enumeration of SID's: Date - Mar 08, 2005; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; One way for an attacker to scope out a target system and, particularly, to identify the Administrator account so they can focus their efforts on the account with the most privileges is to list, or enumerate, the SID's (serial identifiers) on a Windows machine.
Enable / Disable Task Manager in Windows 2000: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Miscellaneous
Enable Security Event Logging: Date - Dec 16, 2004; Rating - 4.5; Author - Tony Bradley; Section - Security; Installing an alarm system on your home or car can be an effective way of at least being alerted when some sort of intrusion has been attempted. Of course, they don't work very well when they aren't enabled. Windows XP comes with the means to detect and log security events so that you can monitor and respond to intrusions or attempted security breaches, however it is not enabled by default.

Recover Lost Windows NT Administrator Password: Date - Sep 07, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
Password Recovery Resources: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.3; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Network
Active Directory database file NTDS.DIT: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory
Windows 2000 Common Problems and Gotcha!s: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.1; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - TroubleShooting; I will use this tip to document Windows 2000 common problems, as reported in W2K newsgroups. I will also use this tip as an index for a set of gotcha!s in Windows 2000.