Before jumping into this week’s topic, let me correct something from last week’s newsletter. Mr. Mar-Elia, of SDM Software, is named Darren, not Daniel as I called him last week. While he’s not averse ...

In Windows or any Operating System, there exist one or more superuser accounts. A superuser is a special user account that serves as the administrator of the system. It can be in charge of the ...

System administration has always been windows’ Achilles’ heel. The graphical tools that simplify basic chores just get in the way when there’s heavy lifting to be done. And CMD.EXE, the hapless ...

As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

Sometimes, we need to launch applications on our system with elevated privileges. We can do so by selecting the Run as Administrator option in the right-click context menu for a particular application ...

Introduction to Linux and Windows system administration tasks focusing on system administration skills, administering user capabilities, the file system, access controls, and other system services ...