This page contains some SQL queries that can be used on an SQL Server to test some parts of the security configuration.

An Audit policy determines the security events to report to administrators so that user or system activity in specified event categories is recorded. The administrator can monitor security-related activity, such as who accesses an object, when users log on to or log off from computers, or if changes are made to an Audit policy setting. For all of these reasons, Microsoft recommends that you form an Audit policy for an administrator to implement in your environment.

Having trouble finding the place where to enable auto-logon in Windows XP Professional? Since it's not so secure, it's well hidden. If you still want the functionality, do the following:

1. Click Start, Run and enter CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2
2. In the list of users, highlight the user account you want automatically logged on.
3. Uncheck Users must enter a Username and password.
4. Click Apply.
5. In the next dialog, enter the password for the account you selected in Step 2, if any
6. OK your way out.

This page explains how you can script the creation of new domains in a Windows DNS server using the dnscmd utility.

For one of my projects, I needed to find a way to redirect requests from local machines to for example google.com to a local webserver. To accomplish this, I setup a DNS server, made sure that all the local machines were using this DNS and added google.com in this DNS server to redirect to my local server.