A First Look At Microsoft’s Istanbul
Istanbul has long been the code name for Microsoft’s next client for Live Communications Server. Just a couple of days ago, Microsoft announced that the official name for Istanbul will be Microsoft Office Communicator 2005. In this article, I will take a look at this new product.
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An Introduction to the Windows 2003 POP3 Service
This document is intended to give the reader a brief introduction to the Windows 2003 POP3 service - just one of the many new features offered by the Windows 2003 Server family.
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Analyzing Traffic With Network Monitor
Microsoft has given you a tool that you can use for monitoring network traffic. Appropriately, the tool is called Network Monitor. In this article, I will introduce you to this tool and show you how to use it.
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Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) asynchronously transfers files in the foreground or background, throttles the transfers to preserve the responsiveness of other network applications, and automatically resumes file transfers after network disconnects and machine restarts.
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Coexistence of Windows Server 2003 and Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 offers many benefits when used in a Windows NT® 4.0 domain, whether as a file and print server, a Web application server, a remote access server, or for core services consolidation. Because Windows Server 2003 reaches new levels of performance, reliability, and security, it offers an ideal opportunity for hardware consolidation and associated cost savings in infrastructure. This paper describes coexistence of Windows Server 2003 with Windows NT 4.0 in Windows NT 4.0 domains. It addresses upgrading file and print servers, Web application servers, core services such as DNS and DHCP, as well as remote access servers.
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Configuring the Windows Time Service
This article walks you through the process of setting up an authoritative time server for a Windows Server 2003-based network running Active Directory. The article outlines procedures for syncing to both an internal and external time source, and also lists additional resources for configuring the Windows Time service and troubleshooting time synchronization problems.
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Configuring Windows Server 2003 to act as a NAT router
More years ago than I care to think about, IP addresses were handed out to companies on an indiscriminant basis. As the popularity of the Internet increased, IP addresses soon grew to be a scarce commodity. The solution to this problem was a technology called Network Address Translation (NAT). Today, NAT is alive and well, and more popular than ever. In this article, I will explain what NAT is and how you can configure Windows Server 2003 to act as a NAT router.
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Creating and Configuring FTP Sites in Windows Server 2003
In this article we'll walk you through the steps of creating FTP sites in Windows Server 2003 using both Internet Services Manager and scripts. The tutorial will also will explain how to perform common administration tasks involving FTP sites and also how to implement FTP User Isolation, a new feature of Windows Server 2003 enables users to have their own separate FTP home directories.
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Creating and Configuring Web Sites in Windows Server 2003
In this article we'll walk you through the steps of creating web sites in Windows Server 2003 using both Internet Services Manager and scripts. The tutorial will also walk you through the steps for hosting content both locally and remotely using virtual directories, and will explain how to perform common administration tasks involving web servers.
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Deploy Windows Server 2003: Considerations for Planning Network Bandwidth
Site links are a critical part of building Networked Windows Networks – How do Domain Controllers speak to each other without having synchronization problems? Network bandwidth being over utilized can play havoc with your network, at the same time affecting your Windows Server 2003 systems by creating errors in your logs seen in the Directory Services Log in the Event Viewer on our Domain Controller (DC). In this article we discuss things to consider when planning and designing site links.
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