- Windows 2000 Deployment: Building Windows 2000 Disk Images with Ghost
- Jan 15, 2001
- Windows 2000 deployment expert Jerry Honeycutt discusses Sysprep and disk-imaging software such as Symantec Ghost.
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- Windows 2000 Deployment: Choosing the Right Deployment Tools
- Jan 15, 2001
- Windows 2000 deployment expert Jerry Honeycutt examines basic deployment methods, SID creation tools, and user preferences.
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- Windows 2000 Deployment: Distributing Windows 2000 User Settings
- Jan 15, 2001
- There are many different ways to deploy user settings in Windows 2000, and some are better than others. Windows 2000 deployment expert Jerry Honeycutt has some suggestions for effectively distributing user settings.
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- Windows 2000 Deployment: Stupid Answer-File Tricks for Windows 2000
- Jan 15, 2001
- Windows 2000 deployment expert Jerry Honeycutt shows you useful things you can do with answer files. Call them stupid answer-file tricks if you like, but you'll learn how to distribute files with Windows 2000, run other programs during the setup process ...
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- Windows 2000 Performance Tools: Leverage Native Tools for Performance Monitoring and Tuning
- Jan 15, 2001
- Looking for information on the latest Microsoft operating system? This article by Windows NT/2000 tuning and sizing expert Curt Aubley covers enhancements to the core performance tools, counters, and troubleshooting techniques.
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- Windows NT Performance Tuning for Web Server-Based Applications
- Jan 15, 2001
- This article by Windows NT/2000 tuning and sizing expert Curt Aubley provides insight into how to tune and optimize your IIS-based Web server. The concepts, however, are applicable to any Web server environment.
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- A Complete Deployment Image
- Dec 13, 2000
- Windows 2000 deployment expert Jeffrey Ferris shows you how to combine a computer-naming script with NETSET.EXE and a network configuration script to completely deploy a Windows 2000 Professional workstation using a disk-imaging utility and SYSPREP.
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- Configuring Network Settings with a SYSPREP Image
- Dec 13, 2000
- Microsoft provides an excellent tool, NETSET.EXE, with the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit. Windows 2000 deployment expert Jeffrey Ferris shows you how any network options that you can configure through an answer file can be configured using NETSET.
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- Deploying Windows 2000 Professional
- Dec 13, 2000
- Windows 2000 Professional is becoming the operating system of choice in the client environment of many organizations. But how should you go about deploying Windows 2000 Professional en masse in your organization? In this article, Windows 2000 expert ...
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- Enhancing Remote Installation Services
- Dec 13, 2000
- Windows 2000 deployment expert Jeffrey Ferris discusses the advantages of 3Com's RIS Menu editor, which enables you to add tools and utilities to Microsoft's Windows 2000 RIS boot screen.
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- Scripting the Computer Name
- Dec 13, 2000
- In many deployments, companies use the BIOS service tag or asset tag as part of the naming algorithm. Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box naming mechanisms don't provide for this type of naming standard. To work around the limited options, Windows 2000 ...
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- User Data Migration
- Dec 13, 2000
- Migrating to Windows 2000 can be a tricky business when it comes to user data. A wipe-and-load process has obvious risks for data loss, as does the manual process of copying local data files to the network. Fortunately, a product on the market can minimize ...
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- Managing Domains, Trusts, and DNS
- Dec 8, 2000
- In this chapter, author Kevin Kocis focuses on the most improved and enhanced features of Windows 2000: the administrative overhead reduction in terms of domains, trusts, and DNS.
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- The Quality/Efficiency Product: The Reason to QoS-Enable a Network
- Nov 6, 2000
- Quality of Service protocols enable network managers to offer enhanced services to applications on the network, while improving the efficiency with which network resources are used. In this sample chapter, Yoram Bernet, leader of Microsoft's QoS development ...
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- ADSI Scripting, Part 2
- Oct 4, 2000
- In the sixth installment of our seven-part series on scripting in Windows 2000 Active Directory, we will add users to groups using ADSI.
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- EFS and File Recovery
- Oct 4, 2000
- Windows 2000 expert Bill Boswell discusses Encryption File System and how to manage file recovery.
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- EFS Best Practices
- Oct 4, 2000
- Windows 2000 expert Bill Boswell provides an invaluable list of best practices for deploying and managing encrypted files with the Encrypting File System.
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- Programming with Windows Management Instrumentation
- Oct 4, 2000
- Dan Fox walks you through a simple development project that shows you the capabilities of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
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- Samba and the Infamous Primary Domain Controller Support
- Oct 4, 2000
- If you find yourself having to maintain Windows NT clients on your network and you also run Samba servers, the question is bound to come up: "Can Samba act as a primary domain controller (PDC) for my Windows NT 4.0 clients?" Samba expert Jerry Carter ...
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- Samba and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Oct 4, 2000
- "Can Samba use LDAP, and if so, how do I configure it?" Samba expert Jerry Carter sheds light on this question in his latest article on the latest version of Samba.
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