PERL Scripts for NT Administration (NT/2000) Monday, February 28 2000 @ 09:02 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Here is a handy set of PERL scripts for administering Windows NT. It includes a script for migrating file shares (including ACLs), Service Account password maintenance, and a script to do file replication (for logon scripts). You will need PERL and a couple resource kit utilities (also downloadable from the site) to make all the scripts work. Visit Site Download Now (8Kb) KEYWORDS: DEJD3-2 read more DLL Hell Files Available Monday, February 28 2000 @ 09:02 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Last issue we ran an item highlighting a Microsoft internal tool for helping manage DLL Hell. At the time the tool itself was not downloadable. It is now available for download from the above location. The download is 1.5 MB. NW  DL  RI  SF KEYWORDS: DEJD3-2 read more Filewatch Notifies You Of All Your Updated Patches (9x/NT/2000) Monday, February 28 2000 @ 09:02 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Filewatch is an innovative site that notifies you of updated patches and utilities. You have the option of setting up a personal profile to tell it which software packages and device drivers you would like to be notified of should there be an update to the current version. When configuring your profile, you can have notifications sent for an entire product category, product family or a specific product. When you visit the site, you will be presented with the updates that have occurred since your last visit. You can also have Filewatch send you email messages on a weekly, daily or immediate basis when updates occur to the products in your profile. The site currently monitors over 2700 products use advanced file monitoring technology. Visit Site KEYWORDS: DEJD3-2 read more Paragon Partition Manager (9x/NT/2000) Monday, February 28 2000 @ 08:56 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy When I received the RTM code for Windows 2000, I flat-lined my laptop and built it with RTM code from the ground up... with one NTFS partition. Lately I needed to install NT4 server on the laptop and discovered the following thing the hard way: You cannot install NT4 on a box with W2K unless you use the updated winnt32.exe that came with SP4. You cannot install NT4 on a W2K NTFS partition (I hacked the daylights out of text mode setup to try to get it to use SP4 ntfs.sys - no go) You cannot boot NT4 pre-SP4 from a partition that starts above 2 Gb on the physical disk (again I hacked text mode setup to use SP4 ntldr, setupldr, etc. - no go). In the process I had to shrink my partition (after giving up on hacks in step 2 above), and then slide it to the end of my disk (after giving up on hacks in step 3 above). Why did I wait so long to start messing with the partitions? I couldn't find partition software that was ready for Windows 2000 NTFS. Until I found Paragon. PowerQuest is apparently waiting until the release date of Windows 2000 to even provide patches (to their latest version only, no doubt). I wrote nasty letter asking them what they think people use their Partition Magic for if it isn't to install pre-release versions of operating systems safely on machines that cannot be dedicated to the new OS" ? Paragon is Ready for 2000 now, was MUCH faster than Partition Magic on the shrink operation and does not appear to do a major release of their product every time they add a few small things (Partition Magic approach). Visit Site Download Now (1.2Mb) KEYWORDS: DEJD3-2 read more Device Lock (NT/2000) Monday, February 28 2000 @ 08:52 PM CST Contributed By: Darwin Sanoy Device lock is an innovative little program that allows you to assign security to any device such as disk drives, floppy drives, CDROM drives as well as COM and LPT ports. Access Control Lists (ACLs) can be changed using the included management tool. You can even remotely change the ACLs over the network with the management tool. Visit Site Download Now (880Kb) KEYWORDS: DEJD3-2 read more