It's been months, and I'm still dealing with a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack on my server—an attack that I can see is coming from China, but there's not really much I can do about it ...

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 ...

How to use a Bash script for-loop for system administration in Linux Your email has been sent Bash scripting remains a staple of my endeavors in Linux as a system administrator, and I use it every day ...

These save me hours, time that would otherwise be spent configuring Windows from scratch ...

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 ...