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Articles & Tutorials for April, 2005

Gaining Speed: Empty Prefetch on your XP System: Date - Apr 28, 2005; Author - Robert J. Shimonski; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows XP; A little known tweak that can help you gain some performance on your XP Professional (and Windows Server 2003) related systems is to periodically empty the prefetch folder. The prefetch folder is used to help speed up the loading of programs; XP will load programs it thinks you need before you ask for them yourself.
Planning your Server Farm (Part 2): Date - Apr 26, 2005; Author - Robert J. Shimonski; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; Welcome to part two of how to plan your server farm and other tips to consider when building Windows Server 2003 systems to serve your network users. Deploying a server can be a chore, especially when it comes to planning. There are many things to consider. In this article we will look at how to verify your plan, and then move on to OS software checks and updating, as well as reviewing power requirements.
Troubleshooting Startup Problems: Date - Apr 21, 2005; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows 2003; This article examines a number of common problems associated with booting Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems and offers tips on how to resolve them.
802.11b vs. Bluetooth: Date - Apr 19, 2005; Author - Andrew Z. Tabona; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Wireless Networking; The match is on! Which technology will come out on top, or will the points be shared? In this article we’ll take a look at 802.11b as opposed to Bluetooth. I’ll give you a background and point out the advantages and disadvantages of each so that you can make a decision for yourself. Once you have read this article you should have a general understanding of which would most suit your wireless networking needs.
Planning your Server Farm (Part 1): Date - Apr 14, 2005; Author - Robert J. Shimonski; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; In this series of articles, we will cover all that you will need to consider when planning to deploy a new server farm. A server farm is just lingo used to describe a grouping of servers that you use within you Local Area Network (LAN), usually tied to a high speed backbone if designed properly. In this article set we will look at considerations when deploying a server farm. These tips and tricks will no doubt help you if you are unfamiliar with planning a design, ordering such equipment and deploying it.
Book Reviews: Security Books: Date - Apr 12, 2005; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; Security is always an important area for IT professionals, and there's no shortage of books on computer and network security coming out these days. Below are five recent titles on various security topics and my take on them.
Managing Application Directory Partitions: Date - Apr 07, 2005; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; Being that the Active Directory is nothing more than a large, extensible database, applications can be designed to store data and configuration information within the Active Directory. This allows the application’s data to be replicated to multiple domain controllers, giving the application a degree of load balancing and fault tolerance. If you have such an application though, it is considered good practice to put the application into a dedicated partition. In this article, I will show you how.
Implementing Fault Tolerance on Windows Networks: Date - Apr 05, 2005; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows 2003; This article provides a high-level survey of the different fault tolerant technologies available for Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition. These technologies, implemented in both hardware and software, help make Windows Server 2003 a highly available and reliable platform for running business critical applications.