adminfoo article ideas

Article ideas  

1. The admin's daily routine
2. Secunia's software inspector http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
   1. FileHippo App Updater http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/
3. Essentials of security
   1. Stay patched (OS and apps!)
   2. run nonadmin
   3. use the firewall
   4. run trustworthy software (how to know it is trustworthy?)
4. Risk metrics for organizations (some sources ). The following to be added up per app/per system:
   1. is it patched?
   2. are ports closed?
   3. is highlevel access being used? Who requires it?
   4. is the ownership known?
   5. is the impact known?
      1. How many people use the app?
      2. What is the cost of downtime?
      3. What's a 'cost of downtime' story?
      4. If it goes down, who will complain?
      5. If the data is lost/or leaked, who will be harmed? How?
      6. If this system (or app), and all of its data, were to completely dissappear, what would the primary users do instead?
5. visionapp / Royal TS / Terminals
6. Getting the most from your AD
   1. Drive and printer mapping scripts
   2. GPOs for firewall management
   3. GPOs for software distribution and installation (or wpkg)
   4. WSUS
   5. User directory info
   6. shared address book
   7. Folder Redirection (offline files) and backups
   8. Account management that works
7. The windows 3gb-not-4gb problem. My question: why doesn't this happen if there are only 2gb in the system?
8. So You Inherited a Network ... (rescue old data from aetheri)
9. Cleaning up your computer. http://content.zdnet.com/2346-12691_22-95490-7.html