Category: Administration

• Delegating Control in Active Directory

  I have been saying for years that a good IT department in a secure, well-managed infrastructure will give their end users the tools they need to do their job… and nothing more. If that is true for end users, shouldn’t it also be true for the IT department themselves?  It is frustrating to see the…

  Mitch Garvis

  June 18, 2018

  Active Directory, Administration, Windows Server, Windows Server 2016

• Where’s My… <Fill in the blank Admin tool>?

  If you are me you like that every few years we get a new version of Windows.  Great new features, new tools, new this, new that… and new frustrations trying to figure out where the hell all of my tools are! Yeah yeah I know… this is the last version of Windows we are getting…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 6, 2015

  Administration, IT Pro, Windows 10, Windows 8.1

• Managing Your Servers Remotely using the RSAT Tools

  In this day and age of virtualization it is not that it is getting harder to sit down at a server to administer it… it is just getting easier to administer it remotely.  Where it does get easier is when you have several servers – often a mix of physical and virtual – that you…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 20, 2012

  Administration, Management, Remote Server Administration Toolkit (RSAT), Server