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When setting up a secure server farm you always want to filter egress traffic. This means that all outbound traffic is blocked by default, including the web traffic from the servers. When surfing is required for drivers and downloads, this is usually handled by setting the proxy in the Internet Explorer options.  However if you want certain processes / services like Windows Update to automatically retrieve updates and wait for manual approval, the next time you login. You need to set a proxy server up and force the Local Machine to use it. The setting in the IE properties page is for the Current User only.

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When you purchase a Dell server you can purchase the Open Manage software, so they ship you media. OpenManage is the software that installs the maintenance partition and the automated install of the operating system as well as firmware updates. However if you did not get media with your server or want the latest version of software; you might run into a problem if you download the software with Internet Explorer and never read the instructions.

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The key to mastering permissions at the command line in Vista and Windows Server 2008 Server is learning the icacls.exe command. With the introduction of Windows Vista, you can no longer select multiple items like folders and files and apply permissions to a group of objects. The recommended way is to use the command line and the icacls.exe command.

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Recently I found a problem when using Mac OS X and Windows Server 2003 R2 as a file server. The problem exists in the permissions that are applied to user folders. When applying permissions to shares you normally start out with a very restrictive permission structure at the top. As you create the folders you add permissions for users and groups to permit and restrict access for others. This structure of permissions is very common in dealing with corporate shares. We also share the folder with ‘domain users’ only having change or modify access to the entire share. This eliminates people applying their own permissions and locking everyone out including themselves. This is a common task for a network admin in setting up permissions.
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