Web-based administration via a web browser enables secure, remote, flexible administration of many services. SharePoint Server 2010, unlike many other Microsoft products, is not managed with a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, but with such a web interface. It might seem that this management motif has it all. A farm of servers may be managed […]

Unfortunately, one of the characteristics of any training class is that the course developers are aiming at a “moving target”. What I mean is that by the time the courseware goes to print, there has either been newer hardware or software released  —   or both. This blog post will be Part I in a series examining […]

In part one, we reviewed a bit of background on authorization models including mandatory access control (MAC) and discretionary access control (DAC), and noted that classically speaking, Windows has largely been managed with a DAC model. There’s a new sheriff in town beside good ole DAC. Alongside the classic DAC is role-based access control (RBAC), […]

Many people still hold on to archaic notions that UNIX systems are always managed via a command line and Windows systems are always managed with shiny graphical user interfaces. Neither has been true for a decade or two now, but I nevertheless find it intriguing when someone asks a question such as: “The lab exercise I […]

Many people think of Windows PowerShell as a command line interface (CLI) rather than a graphical user interface (GUI). Shouldn’t it be called a textual user interface (TUI)? Two peas in a pod, the Console Host (conhost.exe) and PowerShell (powershell.exe) provide a classic cmd.exe style window  for typical the shell experience. Actually, in Windows Server […]