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Today I’ve delivered an interesting session for Microsoft in the Israeli Get Ready for Windows Server 2008 event that took place in the Hilton Tel-Aviv hotel. The session was presented in front of approximately 700 people and was also recorded for offline viewing. Although I do not yet have the recorded presentation, I will post…

[incl/incl/digg.htm]Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Server Performance Advisor (or SPA for short) is a simple but robust tool that helps administrators diagnose the root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 deployment. Actually, SPA is in fact a cool network monitor and performance monitor wrapped into one package so that you can correlate…

You are all familiar with the standard Outlook meeting request form where you specify the meeting details and invite attendees and probably have seen it so many times that an idea of changing the way the form looks or adding some information to the form is something you have not even thought about. But suppose one…

How can I customize a new Windows XP installation? When installing a brand new Windows XP Pro computer (read my Install Windows XP Pro page) I end up making many changes to its interface and some of its interior settings. Some of these changes are for made for performance reasons while others are purely visual…

I am sure you have used the Cisco IOS command show running-config before, and noticed a peculiar default command in the configuration. The command I am talking about is ip subnet-zero. Here is what I am talking about: But what is this command? Why is it there? Let’s find out. What is a zero subnet…

Decimal to binary conversion is an important task to understand in IP addressing and Subnetting. IP addressing is a core functionality of networking today. The knowledge of how to assign an IP address, or determine the network or host ID via a subnet, is vital to any good network engineer. Having a good, solid understanding…

In Basics of Cisco Switch Administration – Part 1, we touched on some of the basic uses of the Cisco Network Assistant (CNA). The CNA is a feature-rich product with many uses. In this article, I’d like to focus on several of the common uses of CNA. Let’s take a look… What is Cisco Network…

Cisco CCNP Training Videos – New Product Release Train Signal just released their Cisco CCNP CIT training course which is the final part of a four part series.  For those of you not familiar with Train Signal, their courses are very practical; designed to teach you “real world” skills and prepare you for certification exams. …

I found this nice blog by Darren Mar-Elia regarding an issue with editing wireless GPO settings from a Windows XP SP2 machine. I thought it was interesting enough to share, so here is my interpretation of it. If you may recall, Windows Server 2003 has added quite a few good GPO settings, some of which…

In today’s digital world one of the most important pieces of personal identity is the user’s private password. Passwords are used to protect various aspects of our digital life such as our AD user account (used to log on to network resources), email accounts (such as Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail and others), credit card accounts, online…

In previous articles we discussed tools that create users and their mailboxes in Active Directory. LDIFDE has been mentioned and also VBScripts. However, the most powerful and flexible tool in my opinion is Excel. Excel can read information from various formats and can serve as a handy intermediary. You can manipulate the information in Excel…

Creating a trust relationship between two Small Business Server 2000/2003 domains Legal note MS KB 295765 clearly says: “The server is a single-domain solution, which is not intended to be integrated with other Windows domains. You are not permitted to establish explicit trusts to other Microsoft Windows NT nor to Active Directory domains. Also, Small…