Configuring Remote Installation Service (RIS) One curiosity of the RIS service is the way you configure the options via the Computer object in Active Directory Users and Computers. This page provides on tutorials explaining the Tabs, Menus and options for optimizing the RIS server in a Windows Server 2003 domain. …
Remote Installation Service (RIS) in Windows Server 2003 RIS is Microsoft’s service for installing images of XP Professional. If you are going to accept the challenge of installing and configuring the RIS service on a Windows 2003 Server then you need a plan. This section provides step-by-step instructions on how …
DHCP Performance Monitoring If you really want to get a feel for your DHCP server, then I recommend creating a performance log and monitoring the DHCP traffic to and from your server. I have two confessions to make. 1) I love performance monitoring, I rarely miss a chance to create …
Routing and RAS (Remote Access Service) in Windows 2003 Server Routing and RAS is like a sleeping giant. What I mean by that is, while in Windows Server 2003, you no longer need to install RAS, it remains inactive until you configure the Icon. I have a special bet for …
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) Registration Always remember that there are two processes with WINS, registration and query. In the case of registering, your mission is to enter the clients IP address into the WINS server database. When querying, you need to find the WINS server with the resources you …
Conditional Forwarding in Windows 2003 DNS If you think carefully about the two words, Conditional and Forwarding then this feature becomes self explanatory. Deeper thought raises more problems than it solves. What condition? Where does it forward? Above all where do find this feature. Configuring Conditional Forwarding Let us begin …
DNSLint troubleshooting Utility for DNS I am always on the lookout for a good new Microsoft utility. DNSLint is my current favourite. For basic connectivity errors you cannot beat Ping and Ipconfig. But what if they don’t solve the problem? The answer is try DNSLint. Topics for DNSLint Displays port …
Troubleshooting a WINS Server in Windows 2003 In the early days of NT 4.0, WINS was plagued with problems, in fact it seemed to me that half the fixes in NT services packs were for WINS Jet database errors. Thankfully all those problems have been ironed out. In fact it …
3CX Develops 10 Key New Features for Its IP PBX in Only 20 Weeks Call conferencing, Paging and Windows 2008 support among major features added to software-based 3CX Phone System for Windows in record time . London, UK – 24 June 2008 – 3CX (www.3cx.com) has announced the release of …
Microsoft’s services vary enormously in their complexity. In this section I have deliberately chosen services such as DNS and DHCP which are quite tricky to setup. Each service has step-by-step tutorials to help you find the most important settings for Windows Services. With the exception of Volume Shadow Copy, you …