How to Disable the 8.3 Name Generation in Windows Server 2003
Date: Wednesday, September 29 @ 07:53:24 EDT
Topic: Microsoft Windows 2003 Online Training Demos, Tutorials


A new demo has been added in the Windows Server 2003 demo portion.The detail of this demo is

Title: How to Disable the 8.3 Name Generation in Windows Server 2003

Objective: The objective of this demo is to teach you how to disable automatic 8.3 name generation in windows server 2003.Many viruses and utilities that are used by attackers are 16-bit applications that expect file names to be compatible with 8.3 automatic name generation. Secure domain controllers do not run 16 bit applications locally. Therefore, disable 8.3 automatic name generation to prevent these viruses and utilities from compromising security on your domain controllers.

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