Networking

A review of Train Signal’s Windows 2000/2003 WINS Video Lab Training – Product Details. See more details at Train Signal’s website. I had always used WINS because it was easy to install and configure. It was a no brainer. Static Mappings was the extent of my configuration attempts with WINS. Didn’t think there was really much to it…

Getting the basic networking tasks done right is the key to any PC Ethernet network, and David Davis shows you how to get off on the right foot.

You can learn a lot about a router by watching it power-up / boot-up. When the router boots, you can learn how fast it is, how much RAM it has, how much storage it has, how many interfaces it has, what type of interfaces, and much more. Many administrators don’t think about the boot-up process…

Learn how to configure TCP/IP settings using Netsh.exe in this article by Daniel Petri.

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…

ISA Server 2000 was Microsoft’s first attempt at a commercial and full-featured Firewall + Proxy server product, offering features not found in its predecessor, Proxy Server 2.0, nor in most of the third party commercial firewall products at that time and in its price class. A few years later, and after several Service Packs and…

[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…

This is a step by step setup of how you get Windows 2000 Server (or Professional) to use Internet Connection Sharing or ICS. These instructions assume that when you have a Cable Modem connection or an ADSL connection (frankly, it can also be a simple Dial-Up modem connection, but that won’t get you anywhere, would…

To configure a PPPoE dialer in Windows XP do the following: Open Network Connections from the control Panel and click Create a New Connection. In the Welcome to the new connection wizard click Next. In the Network Connection Type window select Connect to the Internet. Click Next. In the Getting ready windows select Set up…

How do I change the Binding Order in Windows 2000? To change the Binding Order in Windows 2000: Start / Settings / Control Panel. Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections. On the Advanced menu, press Advanced Settings. Select the adapter whose Binding Order you wish to change in the Connections box. Use the arrows on the…