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What is the Shutdown Event Tracker on a Windows Server 2003? Shutdown Event Tracker overview Shutdown Event Tracker provides a way for IT professionals to consistently track why users restart or shut down their computers. It does not document why users choose other options, such as Log off and Hibernate. It gathers the reasons users…

If you’ve ever tried to help a novice user troubleshoot a Windows problem over the phone, you know how frustrating the entire process can be. It’s usually difficult for an inexperienced user to accurately communicate detailed configuration information, especially if the problem involves technically challenging areas such as hardware drivers or network protocols. Because you’re…

Looking for an overview of what’s new in Active Directory in Windows Server 2003? Daniel points out the highlights and noteworthy additions.

The Network Setup Wizard sets the proper permissions on shared folders, adds required keys to the registry, configures protocols and binds them to network cards, enables or disables the Internet Connection Firewall, and adjusts system policies so that file sharing works properly over the network. You should run the Windows XP Network Setup Wizard on…

Ok, so you have your ADSL (or Cable) connection ready and fired up. You’re planning on downloading four hundred fifty seven GB of MP3 files, and you think it’s going to take you less than 3 hours to finish downloading them all. Why is your connection so slow? Why did your ISP lie to you…

Sometimes you’ll find yourself on a stranger’s LAN and you won’t know the IP of the computer you’re using. This box should display your real Internet IP address: The Problem Opening up a Command Prompt window and typing the ipconfig command ipconfig /all (or Winipcfg if you’re at a Win9X computer) sometimes won’t help –…

How can I tell if I am running Exchange Enterprise server or Standard server? Exchange 2000/2003 Standard edition differs from the Enterprise edition in quite a few aspects. Among them is the 16GB database size limit, lack of Clustering support, lack of ability to act as a Front-End server (this limit was in fact removed…

How can I tell what SP is installed on my Exchange 2000 server? Go to your server in Exchange System Manager, right-click your server, choose Properties, and on the General tab make a note of the version number. Each version of Exchange Server includes a build number so that you can easily identify which version…

The Classless Inter Domain Routing (CIDR) standard is already in effect and most newer routers supports it. In a few years it is likely to be the way IP addressing is handled. It is already becoming common for ISP and major providers to use this scheme. The old Classfull IP Addressing scheme provided for Class…

What is the ASR feature in Windows XP/2003? How do I use it? If you run a  Windows XP Pro or Windows Server 2003 computer and you wish to backup the system you can use a new feature called Automated System Recovery (ASR). The ASR process allows to restore the system disk (usually the C:…

A Windows-based computer that is configured to use DHCP can automatically assign itself an Internet Protocol (IP) address if a DHCP server is not available. For example, this could occur on a network without a DHCP server, or on a network if a DHCP server is temporarily down for maintenance. With this feature, a Windows…

In Exchange 2000, what is the Active Directory Cleanup Wizard and what is it good for? MSKB 270652 has the following information: The Active Directory Account Cleanup Wizard is a utility designed to merge duplicate Microsoft Windows NT accounts that are created when multiple directories are migrated or upgraded to Active Directory. The Active Directory…