The Remote Boot Floppy version 2, build 17 utility (Rbfg.exe), a component of the Windows Server 2003...

When you create a certificate with the default Administrator template, the Issued Common Name field appears to contain Users Administrator, but the character between Users and Administrator is really a line-break that is rendered as a space. Th...

When the remote desktop user shuts down or restarts the computer, the display turns black and the computer shuts down or restarts...

When you perform a clean install of Windows Server 2003, the I want to choose the install drive letter and partition during setup check box, in advanced options, is selected by default. You cannot clear the check box. This behavior...

The concept of storage virtualization has superseded the traditional notion of RAID volumes. In the past, when configuring storage volumes for a server, you'd allocate x number of spindles for a database volume and y number of spindles for...

We want to provide Microsoft Exchange Server access to Linux desktop computers in our organization. How can we accomplish this...

I enjoyed reading Lab Notes: "Remote Control Software" (April 2002, http://www.winnetmag.com, InstantDoc ID 24227). One of Windows XP's most exciting features is Remote Assistance. I'd been using AT&T Laboratories Cambridge's Virtual Network...

Can Apache and IIS Coexist?I suggested that you remove or disable IIS because you can't have two programs listening for network connections on the same IP address and port. So in this case you can't run IIS and Apache both on port 80. You can...

Let's review the five Flexible Single-Master Operation (FSMO) roles in an Active Directory (AD) domain. AD relies on FSMO to prevent conflicts...

You now know how to design a network with redundant components. Let's take a look at the building blocks of such networks: the standards and protocols...