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Rant of the week, and I’ve written about this one before. There must be, for any administrator, situations where you want people to be able to open, read and save files, but not to delete them. You want to protect shared pools of files against accidental deletion, but otherwise people can do anything else sensible…

Before Windows Server 2008 your Windows domain could only have one password policy for the whole domain, even though the password policy settings appear in any GPO. Only the settings in the Default Domain policy would be actually applied. One of the advances of Windows Server 2008 is to allow multiple password policies to be…

Since the Windows 7 RC came out we have run it in a variety of systems. While it is good, it is not the gold release version of Windows 7 and has a few bugs. And from March 1, it will start to shut down every two hours on PCs where it is still installed.…

Note that this could happen if the folder exists but the permissions are set such that the folder is inaccessible to some degree. Experience has taught me that Office suite programs are pretty poor at handling permission restrictions like a user has only Read and Execute rights on a folder. This latest problem with Word…

Finally after a year we have got our Terminal Services gateway online for remote access to our terminal server. I’m not saying that I spent a whole year trying to get it running, rather that it has taken that time from when we first installed the server, until I have had the opportunity to get…