What’s your experience with Microsoft tech support?
I’m doing some research on the effectiveness of Microsoft’s technical support, possibly for an article on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. Our site readers continually need help troubleshooting Windows security dilemmas. Some seem to find what they need on Microsoft’s Web pages, and others don’t get enough technical detail (i.e. steps for fixing a specific problem). Do you have [...]
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| November 3, 2004 3:10 PM
configuration, Desktop security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Security, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM, Windows XP
I’m doing some research on the effectiveness of Microsoft’s technical support, possibly for an article on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. Our site readers continually need help troubleshooting Windows security dilemmas. Some seem to find what they need on Microsoft’s Web pages, and others don’t get enough technical detail (i.e. steps for fixing a specific problem). Do you have [...]
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| November 3, 2004 3:10 PM
configuration, Desktop security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Security, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM, Windows XP
Unable to Delete c:winntsystem32os2 folder
I am trying to remove the OS/2 Subsystem components installed to harden my Win2000 server. Although I managed to delete all files in c:winntsystem32os2 and in all its subfolders (by clearing dllcache), I still couldn’t delete c:winntsystem32os2 and c:winntsystem32os2dll. I have already completed the necessary removal of the following: MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOS/2 Subsystem for NT MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironmentOs2LibPath [...]
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| October 11, 2004 9:44 PM
configuration, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Service and support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management
I am trying to remove the OS/2 Subsystem components installed to harden my Win2000 server. Although I managed to delete all files in c:winntsystem32os2 and in all its subfolders (by clearing dllcache), I still couldn’t delete c:winntsystem32os2 and c:winntsystem32os2dll. I have already completed the necessary removal of the following: MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOS/2 Subsystem for NT MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironmentOs2LibPath [...]
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| October 11, 2004 9:44 PM
configuration, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Service and support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management
Alternate way to stop Oracle Services on Win 2K Server-2
Our database server is a Machine running Windows 2K Server. We make our backups stopping the Oracle Service and then copying the files to other location (and then to tape), but in order to do this, the user loged in on the server must be an administrator, and this is a problem, because the backup [...]
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| August 2, 2004 2:25 PM
configuration, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Desktop security, Hardware, Oracle, Oracle 8i, Oracle Application Server, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Security, Servers, Software distribution, Standard Edition, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance
Our database server is a Machine running Windows 2K Server. We make our backups stopping the Oracle Service and then copying the files to other location (and then to tape), but in order to do this, the user loged in on the server must be an administrator, and this is a problem, because the backup [...]
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| August 2, 2004 2:25 PM
configuration, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Desktop security, Hardware, Oracle, Oracle 8i, Oracle Application Server, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Security, Servers, Software distribution, Standard Edition, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance
