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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
The Windows 2003 Support Tools consist of a number of command-line utilities, visual basic scripts, GUI based applications, and documents – all of which you must install from a seperate application. The Support Tools are not automatically installed when you install Windows 2003; their installation isn’t an option in the Windows 2003 setup. The installation [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Introduced with Windows 95, the Registry is a central repository for unique user and machine configuration data. In basic terms, it is a big database that holds all of the Windows 2003 configuration information – settings relative to user accounts, machine hardware and applications. Everything from user preferences (such as the background colour, screensaver, etc), [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Unfortunately, in Windows NT Disk Quotas didn’t exist, which was much to the disappointment of Windows Administrators. Along came Windows 2000 and with the introduction of Disk Quotas it meant Administrators had the ability to track and control user disk usage. The only problem was that they didn’t really have a sufficient way of managing [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
The DHCP server assigns a client an IP address taken from a predefined scope for a given amount of time. If an IP address is required for longer than the lease has been set for, the client must request an extension before the lease expires. If the client has not requested an extension on the [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
More years ago than I care to think about, IP addresses were handed out to companies on an indiscriminant basis. As the popularity of the Internet increased, IP addresses soon grew to be a scarce commodity. Internet service providers began to strictly limit the number of IP addresses that they would lease to companies. This [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
In this article I will walk you through the Advanced TCP/IP settings dialog and its relevant tabs, so that you can better understand what each option is used for and how to configure it. Windows 2003 comes with a number of new features for TCP/IP, including support for IP Version 6, automatically determining the Interface [...]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
This is just a note to remind myself the process of installing PHP,MySql and PHPMyAdmin on IIS6 and Windows Server 2003. If it is of any use to you, that will be great. There are many ways to run php and mysql stack on windows, if you are from a background of linux, or as [...]
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