NT Administration from the Command Line
In addition to using the GUI to create accounts and groups, the command line can be used. This is often useful when automating server setup or recovery.
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Automating tasks with the Schedule service
The Schedule service is a handy utility that comes with Windows NT, but isn't enabled by default. The Schedule service is configured with the AT program. Using the AT command, or the enhanced windows interface, WINAT, as shown in Figure A, you can quickly and easily schedule jobs to run daily, weekly, or only once.
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Configuring automatic domain controller synchronization
In this article, we'll explain how synchronization occurs and show you which Registry subkeys control domain synchronization. We'll tell you how to edit these subkeys to optimize domain replication in your local area or wide area network environment. We'll also discuss why you may need to configure your domain synchronization to provide better performance over slow WAN connections.
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Manually synchronizing your domain
If you've made a change to the PDC's SAM that immediately affects a user account that authenticates via a BDC, you'll need to manually synchronize your domain before you ask the user to log off and then log on again.
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Remote Console Server and Web Administration Tool for NT
Two very useful remote administration tools are the Remote Console Server and the Web Administration tool. Both of these tools come on the NT 4.0 Server resource kit CD.
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