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After reading my column, "Local Admin Password Problem," a couple of readers contacted me with their own solutions to automating password changes. These solutions are far too good for me to keep to ...

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I need to get a hold of adsutil.vbs, but I can't find it on my server's hard disk or my Win2K Server CD. With a default install of IIS, it would be in a folder called Inetpup\AdminScrips.<BR><BR>Does ...

During the past month or so, I've also been dealing with an aggressive DDOS (that's a "distributed denial of service") attack on my server, one that's been a huge pain, as you might expect. What's odd ...