This page is aimed at computer administrators trying to solve various problems. For help aimed at end users, please see the end users page.

Connectivity

DOS

batch files
Increase reliability of Windows by installing Debian (Joey Hess, "goodbye microsoft" Kite, 2007-01-28 ).
tracking licenses
Windows command line
Brian May, "windows printer config management" samba, 2008-02-05
- printui.dll:
  
  rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?
- Con2Ptr (note link to Microsoft's website broken).
- AdPrintX, download.
- XP SP2 stops users installing print drivers as a security. To allow power users to install print drivers, install ntrights from Microsoft's server resource kit (free download) and type in:
  
  ntrights.exe -u "Power Users" +r SeLoadDriverPrivilege
Microsoft SMS requires Windows Server [reference] .
Alternatives to Microsoft SMS 2003 (see thread):
- WPKG [reference] .
- Altiris [reference] .
- Unattended [reference] .
Windows Update Downloader
Heise Security's Offline Update and English documentation; it is also possible to integrate it with Unattended, see sample batch file: offline updater.bat.

The following command turns off excessive logging of console messages.

unix:~# echo "4 4 1 7" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
Tracking TCP connections to the process:
- tcpspy: logs connections to /var/log/daemon.log; see bug #494915.
- iptables -j LOG --log-uid
- systemtap