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Robert McIntosh

Robert McIntosh is a consultant and trainer who teaches about Microsoft and security technologies and is the founder of Covenant Solutions. He is an MCT, an MCSE, and an ISS-certified instructor.

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Web Sharing and WebDAV
Jul 29, 2001
Because Windows 2000 is a complex product that includes many integrated components, several of its features remain relatively unknown. One such feature is Microsoft Internet Information Services’ (IIS's) WWW...
New Resource Kit Utilities - 23 Jul 2001
Jul 22, 2001
Several months ago, I wrote a series of articles about Group Policy that generated many requests for more information about Group Policy implementation and troubleshooting. In response, I wrote about two utilities...
AD Disaster Recovery
Jul 16, 2001
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DHCP Improvements
Jul 08, 2001
In Windows 2000, DHCP's basic functionality remains unchanged from Windows NT 4.0, but Microsoft did introduce several new features. The DHCP Manager is now a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, and it now...
DHCP in Windows 2000
Jul 01, 2001
On existing networks, we often take network services such as DHCP, WINS, and DNS for granted. If the services are set up in a way that takes the physical network configuration into account, then network services don’t...
Win2K's New WINS Features
Jun 24, 2001
In my last column, I wrote about name resolution in Windows 2000 and concluded that most networks will have to support both DNS and WINS for the foreseeable future. This conclusion is disappointing to those of us who...
Name Resolution in Windows 2000
Jun 10, 2001
Name resolution, a critical function in any TCP/IP environment, lets users establish network connections using machine names (which shouldn’t change and are easy to remember) instead of IP addresses (which can change...
Configuring VPNs - 04 Jun 2001
Jun 03, 2001
In my last column, I discussed some VPN basics, including the tunneling protocols that Windows 2000 supports and the different levels of security and interoperability that these protocols provide. Many people I talk...
Windows 2000 VPN Basics
May 27, 2001
Last week, I explained how to ensure that your RAS users can reliably authenticate in a mixed Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 environment. One solution that lets you avoid relaxing Active Directory's (AD’s) default...
Configuring RAS in a Mixed Environment
May 20, 2001
When you run the Active Directory (AD) installation wizard, DCPROMO, to create a new AD domain (as opposed to creating an additional domain controller—DC—in an existing domain), you encounter a configuration screen...
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