I have to log in before I shut down. Is there a setting that allows me to
shutdown without log in?
Non-admin can't shutdown at all. Is there a setting to change that?
(I am using my server as work station and not as a normal server.)

I have a question regarding implementing domain isolation with IPsec
support from Windows 2003 (or higher.)
From the examples online, you only need to join a few machines into
the domain and they are magically protected from outsider attacks and

BackGround
I have a web server called portal.myc.local
I must implement Kerberos Constrained Delegation,
to impersonate the end user in a downsteram application (on another

Is there a document on Microsoft NAP and Cisco NAC comparison?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182086
Explains
How to Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown
As I can expect shut down will take longer.

I have been tasked with changing the local admin account password on 1500 PCs
in my office.  We do not have ADS or a domain.  How can this be done?  What
recommendations are available?

 I'm trying to track down who made a change to the default domain audit
policy, and the event includes this info (data altered) in an event ID 612:
Changed By:
     User Name:    DOMAINCONTROLLER$

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Please see:
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/comsandbox/thread/04def87b-6177-4a8a-b6
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Comment(s) *here* - in this thread, please.
TIA

Our infrastructure team put together a certificate server.  But how do we
make this thing useful for our user community?  We would like them to be able
to digitally sign documents, forms, etc.  The users need their certificates
automatically provisioned and centralled stored so ...

Is there an easy way to determine which Active Directory user ID last
updated a particular active directory object ?  e.g. which account with
domain admins last updated a user object ?
Regards

At the medical center we force the screen saver to come on at a minimu
of 15 minutes and lock it to the password due to confidential patien
information displayed on the screen when nurses walk away from thei
workstation.

My question is, if I have installed SP3 from a disk, and also installed the
Package Installer update 942288, isn't it fishy that Windows Update tells me
I need to install the Package Installer from July 2005?
I have nuked and burned my hard drive an embarrassingly large number of ...

After applying a security patch (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955617) to
our servers ,we found that the snapshot viewer would error with an 'Out Of
Memory' exception. We managed to roll back to the previous version of the
.ocx but what is the correct route to reporting ...

I'm after recommendations for software that will allow secure transfer of
files and folders from Windows servers in a DMZ to hosts (windows) on the
internal network.
While there are plenty of open source clients (puty, Winscp etc) for the