This is a kewl move from Microsoft. I am excited to see a web version of the Mangement Studio for Administrators. Even though I have not explored this to the full. The interesting fact being ASP .NET 2.0 prrof-of-concept for sure :) … I would want to get my hands dirty nevertheless. Catch the site here …
From the domain name I guess we can find more tools to come our way. This is just my guess …
Yes, as a rule of thumb we say that for security reasons there is no need to actually have the extended SP. But more often than not the complete analysis needs to be done. This KB article describes in detail the effects of removing xp_cmdshell and the dependencies that need to be taken care. I would rate this as a good read … Do take a minute to go over this …
Are you getting everything out of Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 that it has to offer? In this webcast we show how to use IIS performance tuning tools, including System Monitor, Application Center Test, and Log Manager, to gather baseline performance information about a Web server. Then we’ll tune that Web server’s cache and test to see the results. Next we’ll show you how to measure memory utilization and tune application pool configuration to optimize both performance and memory utilization.
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I recently got a request over the same for some of the interesting resources to read over this topic. And a quick suggestion / links that came to my mind are:
Yup this is the new name for Longhorn and get your databases updates ;) … Read here …
Consider this your one-stop shop for all your Windows system administration scripting needs. Get to the Script Center homepage.
Introducing powerful new software tools for shared computers in schools, libraries, Internet cafes, and other public places. The Shared Computer Toolkit helps make it easy for anyone to set up, safeguard, and manage reliable shared computers running Windows XP.
Even though the story of IE 7.0 is yet to catch fire. News will keep coming over this next product for sure. Anti-phishing, Virus software embedded etc are some of the posts over the internet. Even though I am not over the Beta testing / Alpha testing of this product I still feel we need to wait to hear from MS officially over the final list of features they plan to introduce. Anyways you can read a story here.
Was looking for this for sometime. Intetesting one to experiment for sure. Download it now …
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