Remote Users

Do you worry about your network's security with remote users or outsourcing?

If you have users who work remotely or outsource certain parts of your organization where network security might not be as highly regulated, is network security a particular point of concern for you? What are some of the measures you and your partners have in place to secure your network at all...

Corrupt of Missing System file

Hi everyone. We had a remote user whose laptop shutdown on her while working on emails and when it restarted it gave the following message: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system We set up a new laptop for her and swapped it out. ...

How let remote AD users change their own SharePoint passwords

Hello everyone... I have almost 500 AD accounts and their passwrods are currently set to not expire, thus user need not change the passwords. As our security policy changes, their passwords will expired three months. The trouble is that these users are remote users who will never come to the...

Best IT solution for Home working

Hi. Is citrix based solution the best for remote working by employees in terms of information security.Are there any solutions which offer better infosec protection especially to prevent copying of data from screen shots

Is there a way of checking remote PCs to see how much of the hard drive is taken up with MS Office documents?

I would like to run a report that tells me how much space on all our user's laptops is taken up with MS Office files (Excel, Powerpoint, Word). Currently a lot of our laptop users are saving their data to the local HDD and we would like to get them to back up this data to the network. It would be...

document recovery running terminal server sessions with Windows Server 2003 R2 Sp2

We have a customer who has lost a folder over the weekend - with no backup for recovery. I have managed to track down who was in the system yesterday, but both people are out of town now. They are running terminal server sessions with Windows Server 2003 R2, Sp2 - does anyone know of any way we...

Remote screen alignment problem

The screen of my Qtek9100 is cracked and i actually did a hard reset although thisi is my second time of using the application remote screen alignment,it actually works the first time but while trying to use it the second timeafter i performed my hard reset all i got is "your device cannot be...

remote office

I'm having trouble creating subnets for my remote office. I have a sonicwall at each office creating a vpn between locations. My server is at the main location and it does the dhcp and dns. I have no trouble setting up the vpn but not sure if I have correct settings I need in Active Directory. ...

No Gateway Given on VPN Connection

I am trying to connect a Windows 2000 server that is on another network to our main network via VPN. The firewall does the authentication. I am using the Microsoft VPN client. When I have connected, I am not able to see any of the network. I run IPCONFIG, and it shows me an IP address, but no...

Is Windows security an afterthought?

As the editor of SearchWindowsSecurity.com, I often speak with users about their Windows security responsibilities. One senior systems analyst in particular sent me an interesting note recently... To give you some background, he's in charge of configuring and administering desktop systems...

Controlling e-mail collection by a user who is predominantly off-site

We are It Resellers who have responsibility to set up and maintain a Win 2003 SBS site with 15 users. All users have an e-mail address "username@company.co.uk". Exchange is set up to collect e-mails every 15 mins and distribute to respective inboxes. Everything runs A-OK. Client has now added a...

Restricted access to win XP professional

I have a small WORKGROUP with windows 2000 server and 5 windows XP professional systems. All computers can read/write each other. Now I want to make one XP client secure/restric access, so that no other computer can access that except only other XP computer. How can I do that? Please advise. ...

VPN connection problem from WinXP to Windows Server 2003.

I have configured a Windows Server 2003 to accept incoming VPN-connections behind a firewall. The firewall forwards port 1723 to the server. When I try to connect with a WinXP Pro desktop via the internet (the server has a public IP at the firewall), I get an errormessage (number 691) that the...

Datawarehouse building - datamart specification: how would you engage a scattered userbase?

We are currently building a datawarehouse and will need to engage the customers in order to successfully specify the datamarts, a search functionality, etc. All of the technicalities are scoped and being put in place. The question hence directs itself to successfully engaging the customer base,...