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Active Directory What is the Active Directory? A number of Active Directory descriptions. What is X.500 and LDAP? What is the Global Catalog? How do I configure a server as a Global Catalog? What is the Schema? What is a domain tree? What is a domain forest? What is a Kerberos trust? How do I […]

SERVER GLOSSARY

Server Glossary access control A security mechanism that determines which operations a user, group, service, or computer is authorized to perform on a computer or on a particular object, such as a file, printer, registry subkey, or directory service object. access control entry (ACE) An entry in an object’s discretionary access control list […]

Windows Server 2003 Boot Process: Common Errors & Solutions

Windows Server 2003 Boot Process: Common Errors & Solutions The boot process starts when you turn on your computer and ends when you log on to Windows Server 2003. There can be various reasons for startup failures. Some can be easily corrected, while others might require you to reinstall Windows Server 2003. This […]

Virtual Local Area Networks

Virtual Local Area Networks This paper describes virtual local area networks (VLAN’s) , their uses and how they work in accordance with the 802.1Q standard. Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 What are VLAN’s? 3.0 Why use VLAN’s? 4.0 How VLAN’s work 4.1 Types of VLAN’s 4.2 Types of Connections 4.3 Frame Processing 5.0 Summary […]

Individual Contributor Goals

Individual Contributor Goals: 1. Ensure that you do not contribute to change failures by thoroughly reviewing your change design, get it approved by SME’s NOMINATED BY YOUR MANAGER and follow the change process for executing the change. Strive to contribute for Zero failed change 2. Ensure no unauthorized change. Strive for Zero unauthorized […]

Windows Run Commands

To Access Run Command Accessibility Controls access.cpl Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools control admintools Automatic Updates wuaucpl.cpl Bluetooth Transfer Wizard fsquirt Calculator calc Certificate Manager certmgr.msc Character Map charmap Check Disk Utility chkdsk Clipboard Viewer clipbrd Command Prompt cmd Component Services dcomcnfg Computer Management compmgmt.msc Date and Time Properties […]

PORTS TO REMEMBER

15 netstat 11 systat 20 ftp-data 21 ftp 22 ssh, pcAnywhere 23 Telnet 25 SMTP 42 nameserv, WINS 53 DNS 67 bootps 68 bootpd/dhcp 69 Trivial File Transfer Protocol (tftp) 80 www-http 88 Kerberos, WWW 101 HOSTNAME 109 POP2 110 POP3 137 netbios-ns 138 netbios-dgm (UDP) 139 NetBIOS 143 IMAP 161 SNMP 220 IMAP3 443 […]

Windows Technical Questions & Answers

HP 1) Net bios name max length Ans: The NetBIOS naming convention allows for 16 characters in a NetBIOS name. Microsoft, however, limits NetBIOS names to 15 characters and uses the 16th character as a NetBIOS suffix. The NetBIOS suffix is used by Microsoft Networking software to identify functionality installed on the registered […]

Windows admin interview questions

Describe how the DHCP lease is obtained. It’s a four-step process consisting of (a) IP request, (b) IP offer, © IP selection and (d) acknowledgement. I can’t seem to access the Internet, don’t have any access to the corporate network and on ipconfig my address is 169.254.*.*. What happened? The 169.254.*.* netmask is assigned […]

QA Windows Admin

Difference between NT & 2000 NT SAM database is a flat database. Where as in windows 2000 active directory database is a hierarchical database. In windows NT only PDC is having writable copy of SAM database but the BDC is only read only database. In case of Windows 2000 both DC and ADC is […]