DNS Caching at a glance 14 Apr 2011 | 04:23 am

What is DNS Caching?! DNS caching is a mechanism that enables a client or a server DNS resolutions queries to be saved locally for a set timeframe on that DNS server or client. A DNS query is a reques...

Manually configuring IP addressing in Windows via Command Prompt 8 Apr 2011 | 04:37 am

As a system administrator in any enterprise IT environment the ultimate goal is to insure system uptime and the consistent availability of network resources. Any delay of service, misconfiguration, sy...

Windows activation problem – code 0x8007232B 6 Apr 2011 | 04:45 am

When you try to activate Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Enterprise, or Windows Vista Business (Windows Server 2008 in my case) using volume-licensed media you may receive t...

Configuring DNS Zones 20 Feb 2011 | 05:13 am

DNS Zones types at a glance: DNS has a hierarchical structure tree called “DNS namespace” that allows it to support any size of networks (The local network, the Internet for examples) without any conc...

Installing DNS server on a standalone or member server 16 Feb 2011 | 11:18 pm

DNS Domain Name System (or Service or Server) is a name resolution service that resolves (interpret, translate) human friendly addresses such as nj180degree.net into IP addresses such as 172.16.10.1, ...

Restore Windows security settings to the default settings 1 Nov 2010 | 04:34 am

This post about restoring your operating system’s security settings to its default setting, the methods mentioned in this post are applicable to: Windows XP (All versions) Windows Vista (All versions)...

WordPress.com Stats Plugin Problem 5 Oct 2010 | 03:50 am

If you have a self hosted blog running on WordPress platform and using WordPress Stats plugin you may noticed that the amazing stats plugin not working. Couple hours ago I was trying to get my stats r...

How to integrate Windows 7 to a domain using NETDOM 28 Sep 2010 | 08:35 pm

Netdom.exe is a command line tool that is built into Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It is available if you have the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) server role installed. It ...

Active Directory integration with Samba for RHEL/CentOS5.5 5 Sep 2010 | 02:19 am

I’ve been asked to develop an enterprise level of complex network servers that can provide many services including mail server, ftp, web server, file server, print server, backup server, roaming profi...

Windows Server 2003 – File Server and Shadow Copy 30 Aug 2010 | 04:19 am