A bunch of Unix admins apply the “never have to touch the client computer directly” mentality to Windows:
Once upon a time, in spring 2000 to be exact, a merry band of system managers from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology set out on a mission, to apply their well tempered Unix knowledge to Windows 2000. Against all odds, they came back, mission accomplished (sort of) and were still able to tell their story.
A LOT of good stuff here on automating the administration of Windows client computers as much as possible. And not just Win2K, a lot of this stuff covers XP too.
Driver Packs might be useful when we look at doing unattended installs of Windows XP boxes in the future. They are collections of all the common drivers for all kinds of hardware, far beyond what comes with the Win XP install media. You can slipstream into a Windows install CD (slipstreaming is inserting drivers and other add-ons into your Windows Install CD), and have the Windows detect & install the drivers automatically without having to worry about installing/setting up the drivers for each computer configuration or install case.
A product that I have always found useful has been released for mac. Download Nessus here.
The following sites might be helpful to configure IPSec again, or on a more complex basis:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_60/ipsec/conipsec.htm
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/overload_private.shtml
Dear Thought Deposit:
I’m not writing this from within Thunderbird, as I would prefer, but through a slick new client called Drivel. This client is used to post to blogs.
Other clients: http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client
1) Select “MoveableType” as blogging type.
2) Enter in “http://10.0.4.20/wordpress/xmlrpc.php” as the address for the blog.
Access Grid looks like minority report, minus the scientology enthusiast. Crazy futuristic video conferencing that’s probably spendy, seeing as NASA is a fan of it. Still, if some of it’s concepts can be scaled down, might be something we can use some day. It’s based on free software, and there’s plenty of documentation.
This RSS reader integrates into Firefox, and is free. I see a lot of potential for RSS feeds & the intraweb integrated together to keep people up to date on what they need to know. But we’ll need an easy to use, easy to deploy RSS reader. So, this is interesting. Appears to be not yet compatible with Firefox 1.5 on the Mac though 
Link
Another one from the old bookmark bin.
Right now when users access shared folders, they see all folders created, even the ones they don’t have access to. Hiding folders that don’t have read access is called ABE, access based enumeration.
This page has details on how to do this in Window Server 2003. Wonder if there is a way to get this working with Samba.
From the “Ian’s old bookmarks” file — that’s a lot of fonts.