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After 4 parts have passed, you have finished basic configuration on WSUS server. Next, you need to configure client computers to contact the WSUS server to get some updates. The best way is to configure from the domain group policy so that you only configure once. Then, the policy will be apply to all clients in the domain but this approach requires you to have an active directory in domain. In this post, I’ll show how to configure clients using group policy to get updates from the WSUS server.
Note: You can also configure clients that in a non-active directory, too. But I won’t cover in this article.

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Introduction

Nessus vulnerability scanner is a tool which can discover and analyze vulnerabilities in the system so that IT staff can fix that holes and hence the system becomes more secure. Before scanning the system, it is necessary to update Nessus’s plugins to make sure that it’s up-to-date and will able to detect the latest vulnerabilities. If you have a disconnected network from the Internet, you need to update the Nessus’s plugins manually.

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Introduction

There is a built-in command on Windows XP and Windows 2003 which can gather system configuration information to display in command-line mode. This command works on Windows only. With this command, you can get System Information on both local or remote computer so you don’t have to login or remote desktop to the remote computer.

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Introduction

Have you ever concern about security of your data? What if someone stolen your storage device or laptop which you have some privacy information on there? Or you have some private data that keep on a PC or laptop and don’t want other to access them.

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This post is continued from Getting started with Microsoft Cluster Service, Part VI: Create a MSSQL server cluster (1).

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Introduction

Well, 5 parts have passed and now you should familiar with MSCS. This part, you’ll learn how to create another clustering service which is an important service that support clustering by design. It is Microsoft SQL Server. To setup MS SQL Server clustering, you’ll need to own a license of an enterprise edition of MS SQL Server. Next, I’ll show how to setup Microsoft SQL Server 2005 cluster. Like the previous part, I decide to separate this part into 2 posts because it’s a quite long part.

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