Installing the DNS Server Service There are a number of methods which you can use to install the DNS server service on your Windows server. Install the DNS server service on a stand-alone computer using the Add or Remove Program applet of Control Panel. Install DNS when you install the first domain controller for an Active Directory domain. Install DNS on an existing domain controller in an Active Directory domain. Before installing the DNS server service, it is recommended that you perform the following administrative tasks: Configure a static IP Read More

On a day-to-day basis when you use your computer you have the ability to organize the information on your hard drive any way you want. One of the easiest methods of organizing your hard drive is by function. This way you use one partition for the operating system, one for your applications and one for the data you create. When you partition your hard drive what you are really doing is dividing it into isolated sections. So when you partition a drive, each partition will then act as an individual Read More

Remote Administration Overview When it comes to administering servers and desktops in secure organizations or large organizations, administrators would typically be found performing remote administration. This basically means that administrators would be using the Microsoft Management Console snap-ins or support tools remotely, to administer servers. For instance, through the Microsoft Management Console snap-ins, you have the option of connecting to remote systems. In fact, most administrative tasks which you can perform locally, you can perform remotely. With the introduction of Windows Server 2003, came increased support for remote administration. This Read More

Group Policy Objects (GPOs) containing Group Policy settings can be linked to sites, domains, and organizational units (OUs), so that they are applied to user objects or computer objects located in the particular site, domain, or OU in Active Directory. Because of numerous Group Policy settings that exist, and the flexibility of group policies, Group Policy management can be an intricate task. GPOs can be linked, filtered, inherited and blocked, and are cumulative when they are applied to the local computer, site, domain or OU. Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) Read More

Desktop themes are an extremely easy and usually a fun way to customize the look and feel of your computer's desktop. Desktop themes are usually referred to as a preset package or complete package of graphical tools and interfaces that one experiences visually when using their computer desktop. There is also another term used called a "skin". While a skin does customize the look and feel of a desktop object, a skin is usually for one specific object such as a media player, a desktop theme on the other hand Read More

The first thing anyone should do when deleting an operating system from a computer, is backup the computer’s contents. This is because deleting the operating system involves deleting the partition of the hard drive that is located on, causing all data to be lost. The user can backup his/her files by going to My Computer, copying the Local C Drive, and pasting it to another hard drive on the same computer, CD/DVD, USB flash drive, online server, external hard drive, or memory card. Boot Disk Once the user backs up the Read More

Configuring ISA Server for Web Publishing With ISA Server, you can use the methods below to secure access to an internal Web server: Configure protocol filters and packet filers to allow Web protocols to pass through the firewall to the Web server. Configure Web publishing rules on the firewall There are a number of tasks that you need to perform to allow access to the internal Web server through Web publishing rules: Configure Web site domain resolution: Here, the public Web server address should be registered in DNS with the Read More