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Christa Anderson

Christa Anderson is a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and a Terminal Services MVP. Her most recent book is Windows Terminal Services (Sybex).

Email: christa@windowsitpro.com

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Scrutinizing Scriptomatic

By Christa Anderson, 10/22/2004

Scriptomatic is billed as a utility that writes scripts for you. Learn whether it lives up to this claim.

Assigning Disk Quotas by Group Membership

By Christa Anderson, 07/27/2004

Use this handy script to assign disk quotas for your users.

Take Control of Your TSCALs!

By Christa Anderson, 04/27/2004

Get a handle on TSCALs by restricting how Terminal Services hands out licenses and which computers it gives them to.

Reclaim Unused TSCALs

By Christa Anderson, 04/27/2004

This sidebar explains how a post–Service Pack 2 (SP2) hotfix resolves one problem with Terminal Services licensing for Windows 2000 Server users.

Manage User Accounts

By Christa Anderson, 04/27/2004

User accounts that remain active after an employee leaves are a security risk. Use scripts to easily enable and disable user accounts and set passwords for accounts.

Creating and Populating Local Groups on Remote Computers

By Christa Anderson, 03/15/2004

Creating local groups from the GUI is clumsy, time-consuming, and prone to typographical errors. Here’s a script that eliminates these hassles by automating the group creation ...

Check Service Status on Local or Remote Servers

By Christa Anderson, 02/24/2004

Configure GetServiceStatus.vbs to check service status on the local server, a remote server, a group of remote servers, or all servers in the domain.

Is SBS 2003 Right for You?

By Christa Anderson, 11/14/2003

Learn about the key features, design, and upgrade possibilities of SBS 2003—a Windows 2003 domain in a box.

Check for and Create User Accounts Programmatically

By Christa Anderson, 06/24/2003

Writing a script that checks for and creates user accounts might seem daunting. Here's an approach to make the task straightforward.

"Just-in-Time" Compiling and .NET

By Christa Anderson, 05/29/2003

Christa Anderson explains how "just in time" (JIT) compiling makes code execute more easily on various platforms.

Windows and UNIX on the Desktop

By Steve Greenberg, 04/22/2003

Present Windows and UNIX applications from one UI.

More About How to Assign Network Resources

By Christa Anderson, 04/22/2003

Finding common elements lets you assign network resources to more than one user or computer at a time.

Real-Life .NET: Adding Support for the .NET Framework

By Christa Anderson, 04/17/2003

Christa Anderson discusses the client side of the .NET Framework.

Real-Life .NET: Setting Up UDDI on a Windows 2003 Computer

By Christa Anderson, 04/03/2003

Christa Anderson discusses Enterprise Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Services, which comes with Windows Server 2003, and the decisions you need to make ...

Using GPOs to Configure Terminal Services

By Christa Anderson, 03/25/2003

Learn how to use GPOs to configure terminal servers.

Basics of the .NET Framework: Windows Forms

By Christa Anderson, 03/06/2003

Christa Anderson addresses Windows forms, also known as Web forms, which are a fairly language-agnostic way of providing a front end to the Web services and ADO.NET used in .NET ...

Editing the Registry

By Christa Anderson, 02/25/2003

Learn how to use the WshShell object with the RegRead, RegWrite, and LogEvent methods to make manual registry edits quickly and consistently.

Basics of the .NET Framework: ADO.NET

By Christa Anderson, 02/20/2003

Christa Anderson reviews ADO.NET's role in the .NET Framework.

The Basics of the .NET Framework: The Base Framework

By Christa Anderson, 02/06/2003

Christa Anderson explains the role of the Base Framework in the .NET Framework architecture.

.NET Framework Basics: The Relationship Between the CLS and CLR

By Christa Anderson, 01/23/2003

Christa Anderson explains how the Common Language Runtime (CLR) relates to the Common Language Specification (CLS) in the .NET Framework.