Mark Minasi
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Mark Minasi is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro, an MCSE, and the author of 25 books, including Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises (Sybex). He writes and speaks around the world about Windows networking.
Web site: http://www.minasi.com/gethelp
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413 results found for Mark Minasi, displaying items 1 - 20
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The Vista SP1 Drivers Affair: A Donnybrook Déjà Vu
The story of Windows Vista SP1 is starting to sound like a soap opera. See Microsoft make the same mistake twice by playing hardball with vendors.
Windows IT Pro
Minasi Talks ... Encryption
Any security system relies, at least in part, on encryption. However, there are right ways and wrong ways to use encryption.
Windows IT Pro
Control Windows Server 2008 Roles and Features
With the Computer Management console missing from Server 2008, you need an efficient way to configure your servers and roll them out. Your best bet is to go to the command line with the ServerManagerCmd, Ocsetup, and Oclist tools.
Windows IT Pro
The Quest for 4 Gigs Continues
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Minasi Talks ... Client/Server
When it comes to bedrock, ubiquitous PC networking terms, few are as ubiquitous as client/server.
Windows IT Pro
Defrag from Windows Vista’s Command Line
Every new Windows version seems to come with a new defrag tool, and Vista is no exception. But its GUI-based defragmenter leaves a lot to be desired. Here’s how you can use the OS’s Defrag command-line tool to do more.
Windows IT Pro
Could Micropayments Save the Web?
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Minasi Talks ... the Internet
Sometimes it’s useful to get back to basics, and what’s more basic in the Microsoft networking world than TCP/IP?
Windows IT Pro
Decommission Old Computers with Cipher
We’ve talked about EFS’s encryption functionality for a couple months. Now, let’s focus on its ability to overwrite the hard disks of decommissioned systems.
Windows IT Pro
What's in Your Battery?
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Manage Your EFS Keys with Cipher
The Cipher command-line tool can help you get a handle on key management and recovery—essential to any EFS user.
Windows IT Pro
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January 15, 2008 |
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Time for a New Year’s Upgrade!
Mark's New Year’s resolution is to fend off an old adversary: disk space.
Windows IT Pro
Vista Hating: The Final Chapter
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Protect Your Data with Cipher
To get a real sense of EFS's file-protection power, you need to be using the command-line encryption/decryption tool Cipher. Here's an overview of Cipher's syntax and options.
Windows IT Pro
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December 21, 2007 |
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Feeling Sorta Blue, Ray
It’s the great next-generation DVD format war: Blu-ray or HD DVD, which will win? After the past couple of weeks, I think we all know which will be victorious, and it worries me a trifle.
Windows IT Pro
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December 5, 2007 |
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How Do People Hate Vista? Let Me Count the Ways…
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Scregedit Streamlines Server Core
Are you a little rusty with the command line? A little wary of Server Core? Scregedit, a registry tool built specifically to aid the Server Core experience, comes to your rescue.
Windows IT Pro
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November 25, 2007 |
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Attention Windows 7.0: Please Don’t Interrupt Me!
Mark yearns for a more polite Windows.
Windows IT Pro
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October 31, 2007 |
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Why, Exactly, Does Everyone "Hate" Vista?
Windows IT Pro
The Final For
In this last of three For columns, learn how the tool's /f option lets you tell Windows to apply a single command to a specific list of files.
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