Neowin News Feed for: Admin

KB5063878: Microsoft confirms bug breaks Windows 11, 10, Server app installs for many users

Sayan Sen — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed another major bug that is caused by the KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 update. However, this issue isn't limited to just this version of Windows. Read more...

Unofficial script does the most useful official Windows 11/10 repairs you want automatically

Sayan Sen — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:18:01 +0000

An unofficial script that fixes common Windows 11/10 problems with the most useful native repair tools that Windows offers has been released. Read more...

Facebook offers new tools for group admins to shield their members from ‘Fake News' and grow

Alap Naik Desai — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:36:02 +0000

Group Admins for Facebook pages have multiple new tools under the new "Admin Assist" platform. These tools can help moderators fight misinformation, suspend offenders, and even increase members. Read more...

Facebook to make jobs of group admins easier with a bunch of new tools

Sayan Sen — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:26:01 +0000

Facebook wants to make moderation easier for admins that run and manage groups on its platform. To do so, the social media giant is introducing several new tools under its new Admin Home panel. Read more...

Telegram messenger supergroups can now have up to 30,000 members

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:14:02 +0000

Telegram has decided to bump the limit of supergroups to 30,000 members. The company said it was considering phasing out normal groups because they're not too different from supergroups now. Read more...

Telegram supergroups now support up to 10,000 members

Paul Hill — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:10:01 +0000

Telegram 4.1 has been released, upping the limit of supergroups to 10,000 users from 5,000 users. Admins have been given a tonne of new controls to help control the new influx of potential users too. Read more...

Microsoft releases update to RSAT tools for Windows 7

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:42:31 +0000

Those of you who are brave enough to run Windows 7 RC at work, in a domain environment, as a systems administrator will be interested to know that Microsoft has released updates for the Remote... Read more...

Tor Anonymity Server Admin Arrested

Steven Parker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:19:06 +0000

In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Although he was released shortly afterwards, information... Read more...

Program Names govern admin rights in Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:22:53 +0000

Developers have discovered that the name given to a Vista executable affects whether or not it will require admin rights to run. Security experts said the feature might seem odd, but helps to catch out... Read more...

BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison

Steven Parker — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:40:50 +0000

The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker... Read more...

Q896989: After W2k3 SP1 Upgrade MOM 2005 Admin console fails

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:12:53 +0000

A problem has been identified in the MOM Administrator Console. After Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has been upgraded to Service Pack 1, the Administrator Console may fail when the Computer Groups node is selected. This... Read more...

.NET Server 2003 Admin Tools Pack Beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:50:33 +0000

Thanks |CEMAN...The Windows .NET Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack (adminpak.msi) provides server management tools that allow administrators to remotely manage Windows 2000 Servers & Windows .NET Server 2003 family servers. This is the RC2 version... Read more...

SOF2 Interview: Kenn Hoekstra, Project Admin, Raven Software

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:20:32 +0000

"With Soldier of Fortune 2 getting closer to release, what is the team focused on at the moment? Kenn: Mainly we're focusing on bug fixes, play balancing and testing and some performance... Read more...

WinXP: log on as admin if you want to play games, MP3s?

Steven Parker — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:04:44 +0000

The Register has jumped on the bandwagon as far as it goes for the "features" regarding User accounts not allowing programs to run, or Users having the ability to add Administrator accounts without passwords(?) LOL!... Read more...

Microsoft retracts sys admin slur

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:14:27 +0000

Thanks Activewin for this one. Microsoft has admitted it regrets the comments made by one of its security chiefs who blamed "laid back" system administrators for making IIS web server software look more vulnerable... Read more...