This article walks you through the steps involved for configuring volume and folder quotas using File Server Resource Manager, a new feature of Windows Server 2003 R2. The article also explains how to create and use templates that can be used to quickly and easily configure quotas on home folders for users on your network.
Over the past two articles on DNS we have seen just how big the Domain Name Service protocol actually is. It performs more then simple domain name resolution as we have seen, and also is a key player in the delivery of email via the MX resource record. In this last part on DNS we will actually break out various fields in the DNS header.
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. Internet service providers began to strictly limit the number of IP addresses that they would lease to companies. This presented an interesting challenge. A PC has to have an IP address in order to communicate with the Internet, but there weren’t enough IP addresses left for every PC to be given one. 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.
This article examines how to use Sysprep to create a library of operating system images which you can then use to deploy virtual machines on Microsoft Virtual PC for testing purposes. Such a library can help you save valuable time when creating test networks using Virtual PC.
In part one of the DNS article series we covered what DNS is at a high level. What we shall now do is explore the core of DNS, which are resource records. There are many types of them, and we shall look at some of the ones you will most likely encounter.