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An IT contractor by design, is a person who can enter a client's site and very quickly become the expert within that entity, It is a requirement that we become the most knowledgeable person within that particular infrastructure or our clients would benifit more by training up an FTE.

In the words of Albert Einstien:

When asked for his telephone number, he walked over to a telephone directory, and looked it up saying to a rather surprised onlooker " An intelligent man is not a man who can store information, but a man who knows how to find it".

With experience we IT Contractors understand better than anyone how technology and heterogeneous environments communicate, and knowing how to find information makes us experts in our chosen fields.

This allows us to be the greatest benifit to our clients. I hope you enjoy this site.

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Recover Windows Password Part 1

Written by David Noel-Davies
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
There are various offline attacks. Do you have auditing turned on so you can detect when a server has been turned off? Making it vulnerable to offline attacks. If you are not aware of it: Without physical security, there can be no security. If you have a resource which needs to be protected, the single most important protection is to restrict physical access.
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Managing Printers Using Group Policy (Part 2)

Written by David Noel-Davies
Friday, 29 June 2007
We’ve been looking at the machine policies used for managing shared printers on an Active Directory-based network (see Figure 1) and so far have examined policies relating to publishing, pruning, and searching for printers. Let’s look at the remaining machine policies and afterward move on to user policies.
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Managing Printers Using Group Policy (Part 1)

Written by David Noel-Davies
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Group Policy simplifies management of many aspects of an Active Directory-based network. One of the areas Group Policy is useful has to do with managing printers. This article reviews various machine and user policies that can be used to configure shared printers in a domain environment. Afterward we’ll look at a third-party tool that gives you even more options for using Group Policy to manage printers.
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