Welcome to Lara's Website for Windows Network Admins. This site is a collection of information that I have accumulated over the past 20 years from administering networks. The operating systems covered are up to Windows 2003 Server and Windowx 7 workstation.

Group Policy is a list of all the Group Policy settings, and their explanations, up to and including Windows 2003 SP2 and IE7. All explanations were quoted directly from the Group Policy Reference or from Microsoft Server Help.

VBScripts are a collection of scripts I have written to add users to Active Directory, modify users properties and to search and retrieve Active Directory objects into Excel.

Partimage is an imaging program similar to Ghost. It runs on a Linux box and is open-source so it is free to use. This is the documentation on setting up that program.

Help Websites and Web Design are a collection of websites that I have found over the years for a variety of subjects.

DNS is a description of how to troubleshoot DNS issues in an Active Directory Domain.

Shutdown is a description of how to setup an automatic shutdown and startup system in your network.

Profiles is a description of how to setup Mandatory Roaming Profiles and how to modify profiles using regedit.

XCacls is a description of how to use it to modify permissions and Hide Drives explains how to modify the system.adm (Group Policy admin template) to hide drives of your choosing.

PXE Boot is a description of how to setup your machines to boot via PXE and connect to the network to run partimage or dos commands.

Videos is a collection of "How To" videos that I have made.

Vista/7 is a "How To" guide to get Vista and Windows 7 running along with Windows XP in a Domain Environment.