Should You Leave Your Computers on at Night?

Should you leave your computers on at night or shut them off when you go home? The answer is “it depends”. There are many factors that go into this decision.  However,  you may be wasting significant amounts of money by not properly evaluating and appropriately managing this issue.

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Yousendit.com

One of the questions I get a lot is how to send large files around.  Previously I posted an article called “Share Files Via Dropbox Public Folder” that showed you how to leverage Dropbox Public Folders to share files.  Another quick way I share files is via YouSendIt.COM. YouSendIt.COM is free for files up to […]

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SQL Databases, Backup, and Free Space

Microsoft SQL databases have two components: Transaction Logs (.LDF) and Databases (.MDF).    Transaction Logs are designed to keep track of each transaction with the database.   If properly configured, they can provide some fault tolerance to failures.

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AdminSDHolder, Protected Groups and SDPROP

Active Directory Domain Services uses AdminSDHolder, protected groups and Security Descriptor propagator (SD propagator or SDPROP for short) to secure privileged users and groups from unintentional modification. This functionality was introduced in the inaugural release of Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server and it’s fairly well known.

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