Windows TIPS & SOLUTIONS

Installing Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR

2020-12-08T20:06:00.002-08:00

This is a step-by-step guide on how to install Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR using the GUI in an on-premises environment. We will also install the different infrastructure servers required for a XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR deployment.

That includes setting up a VMware virtualization environment, so we can use a host connection to auto-provision machines in machine catalogs.

Step by Step configuration

1. Prerequisites2. Install Window 2012 Domain Controller
3. Install the Citrix SQL, DC, Studio, License, Store front and Director
4. Create the XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR Site
5. Add a second Delivery Controller to the site
6. Create a host connection on the site

7. Install Virtual Delivery Agents
8. Create Machine Catalogs
9. Create Delivery Groups

11. Install Citrix StoreFront
12. Test your deployment

1. Prerequisites

The test lab in this guide will comprise of four Windows Server 2012 servers, and they will perform the following roles. You should dedicate 2GB ram to each server.

WIN2012DC01: This will be Domain Controller in the MyTestDomain.com

XENZDC01: SQL + Delivery Controller + Citrix Studio + Citrix Licenser + Citrix StoreFront and Citrix Director.

XENAPP01: Virtual Delivery agent

All servers are connected to the same subnet, 192.168.10.0/24

Citrix 7.15 Architecture Setup Lab

2. Install the DC Server (IP Address 192.168.10.100)
Roles: ADC, DNS, DHCP (Domain Name : MyTestDomain.com)

3. Install the Citrix ZDC Server (IP Address 192.168.10.110)
SQL + Delivery Controller + Citrix Studio + Licenser + StoreFront and Director.

On the splash screen of the XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR ISO, click Start on XenDesktop

Select Autosetup.exe right click run as Administrator

Click Delivery Controller

Accept the license agreement, click Next

Select All Components Delivery Controller, Studio, Director, License and StoreFront. Click Next

Keep the default option, click Next

Prerequisites will be installed before the core components, click Install

The Machine needs to be restarted before the installation can continue

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2020-12-08T20:01:00.001-08:00

How to Get AD User Group Membership Reports

1. Open the PowerShell on your Domain controller → Run the following script, specifying the username for the account you’re interested in and the path to export:

Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership <Username> | select name, groupcategory, groupscope | export-CSV C:\data\ADUserGroups.csv

2. Open the file produced by the script in MS Excel.

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How to Create ISCSI Storage using Windows Server 2008 R2

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An error occurred during port configuration. Access is denied.

2012-04-12T05:41:00.007-07:00

If you face following error. please refer Microsoft KB article to resolve issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297780

How to install or modify a local printer by user. Please find below steps to provide permission to individual users.

Steps :

To install or to modify a local printer:

You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group into Server.
You must be logged on as a member of the Power Users group and have the Load/Unload Device Drivers user right. The Load/Unload Device Drivers user right is a Group Policy setting.

Note To assign this user right, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type gpedit.msc, and then click OK.
Click Computer Configuration, click Windows Settings, click Security Settings, click Local Policies, and then click User Rights Assignment.
Go to policy Load/Unload Device Drivers user right and By default, only administrators have this user right. Add Power User group

By default, only administrators have this user right. In Windows 2003, Power Users can obtain the same user right to install or modify a local printer as they had under Windows 2003 if the administrator explicitly grants this user right to them.

CBT Nuggets Upgrading Your MCSE On Windows Server 2003 To Windows Server 2008

2011-05-24T18:42:00.000-07:00

http://avaxhome.ws/video/CBT_Upgrading.html

How to access FTP site from LINUX & WINDOWS machines thru command line.

2011-03-03T04:14:00.000-08:00

How to access FTP site from LINUX & WINDOWS machines.

Linux machines

[root@hostname~]#ftp

Eg: ftp 192.168.0.250
Eg: ftp Servername

ftp>

Options
ls --> List the contains of files and directory.
cd --> change directory
put --> to upload single file to FTP Server.
mput --> to upload multiple files to FTP Server.
get --> to download single file from FTP server.
mget --> to download multiple files from FTP Server.
bye --> to quit from FTP server.

Windows machines

Go to Start --> RUN --> Type CMD (Enter)

C:\>ftp

Eg: ftp 192.168.0.250
Eg: ftp Servername

ftp>

Options
ls --> List the contains of files and directory.
cd --> change directory
put --> to upload single file to FTP Server.
mput --> to upload multiple files to FTP Server.
get --> to download single file from FTP server.
mget --> to download multiple files from FTP Server.
bye --> to quit from FTP server.

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1. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE B/W 2000 & 2003 SERVER

A. WINDOWS 2000 WINDOWS 2003

AD VER 1.0 AD VER 1.1

NTFS VER 5.0 NTFS 5.2

SIZE OF NTDS 16 MB SIZE OF NTDS.DIT 12 MB

DISK QUOTAS DISK QUOTAS

VOLUME SHADOW COPY SERVICES

SOFTWARE UPDATE SERVICES

GP MGMT CONSOLE

MBSA

ADMT

RSOP

IIS 5.0 IIS 6.0

DFS REPLICA DFS TARGET

2. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT FLAVOURS IN 2K

► WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL

► WINDOWS 2000 SERVER

► WINDOWS 2000 ADVANCE SERVER

► WINDOWS 2000 DATA CENTER SERVER

3. DIFFERENCES B/W EACH FLAVOUR OF 2K

	STANDARD SERVER	ADVANCED SERVER	DATACENTERSERVER	PROFESSIONAL
SUITABILITY	SMALL TO MEDIUM N/W	MEDIUM TO LARGE N/W	EXTREMELY LARGE N/W	WEB DESIGNERS
SMP	4 PROCESSORS	8 PROCESSORS	16 PROCESSORS	2 PROCESSORS
RAM	4 GB	8 GB	64 GB	2 GB
FAULT TOLERANCE	YES	YES	YES	NO
N/W LOAD BALANCE	NO	YES	YES	NO
CLUSTERING	NO	YES	YES	NO
NO. OF NODES	--	4	8	--

4. COMMON FEATURES OF W2K FAMILY

A. ACTIVE DIRECTORY

DDNS NTFS VER 5.0 GROUP POLICY MULTI MASTER REPLICATION

DISK QUOTAS IIS 5.0 INBUILT TS DFS

RRAS DHCP PNP RIS

5. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT FLAVOURS IN 2003

► WINDOWS 2003 STANDARD EDITION

► WINDOWS 2003 ENTERPRISE EDITION

► WINDOWS 2003 DATA CENTER SERVER

► WINDOWS 2003 WEB EDITION

6. SPECIFIC FEATURES OF WIN 2003 OS FAMILY

	STANDARD EDITION	ENTERPRISE EDITION	DATACENTER EDITION	WEB EDITION
SUITABILITY	SMALL NETWORKS	MEDIUM TO LARGE	EXTREMELY LARGE	WEB DESIGNERS
SMP	4 PROCESSORS	8 PROCESSORS	64 PROCESSORS	2 PROCESSORS
RAM	4 GB	8 GB	64 GB	2 GB
FAULT TOLERANCE	YES	YES	YES	NO
N/W LOAD BALANCE	NO	YES	YES	NO
CLUSTERING	NO	YES	YES	NO
NO. OF NODES	--	4	8	--

7. HARD WARE REQUIREMENTS FOR 2003

REQUIREMENT	STANDARD EDITION	ENTERPRISE EDITION	DATACENTER EDITION	WEB EDITION
MINIMUM CPU SPEED	133 MHZ	133 MHZ FOR X86-BASED COMPUTERS. 733 MHZ FOR ITANIUM-BASED COMPUTERS.	400 MHZ FOR X86-BASED COMPUTERS. 733 MHZ FOR ITANIUM-BASED COMPUTERS.	133 MHZ
RECOMMENDED CPU SPEED	550 MHZ	733 MHZ	733 MHZ	550 MHZ
MINIMUM RAM	128 MB	128 MB	512 MB	128 MB
RECOMMENDED MINIMUM RAM	256 MB	256 MB	1 GB	256 MB
MAXIMUM RAM	4 GB	32 GB FOR X86-BASED COMPUTERS. 64 GB FOR ITANIUM-BASED COMPUTERS.	64 GB FOR X86-BASED COMPUTERS. 512 GB FOR ITANIUM-BASED COMPUTERS.	2 GB
MULTIPROCESSOR SUPPORT	UP TO 4	UP TO 8	MINIMUM 8-WAY MAXIMUM 64	UP TO 2
DISK SPACE FOR SETUP	1.5 GB	1.5 GB FOR X86-BASED COMPUTERS. 2.0 GB FOR ITANIUM-BASED COMPUTERS.	1.5 GB FOR X86-BASED COMPUTERS. 2.0 GB FOR ITANIUM-BASED COMPUTERS.	1.5 GB

8. H/W REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTALLING 2K PRO/STANDARAD /ADV/DATA CENTER

REQUIREMENTS	WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL	WINDOWS 2000 SERVER	WINDOWS 2000 ADVANCE SERVER	WINDOWS 2000 DATA CENTER SERVER
PROCESSOR	PENTIUM 166MHZ	PENTIUM 166MHZ	PENTIUM 166MHZ	PENTIUM 166MHZ
FREE HARD DISK SPACE	650 MB	950 MB	950 MB	950 MB
RAM	32 MB	64 MB	64 MB	64 MB
RECOMMENDED RAM	64 MB	128 MB	128 MB	256 MB
MAX. RAM	2 GB	4 GB	8 GB	64 GB
NO. OF PROCESSORS	2	4	8	32

9. WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF 2K ARCHITECTURE

A. USER MODE, KERNEL MODE, SUB SYSTEMS, EXECUTIVE SERVICES, KERNEL, HAL

10. WHAT IS AD

A. AN ACTIVE DIRECTORY IS A CENTRALIZED DATABASE WHERE IT CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT OBJECTS LIKE, USERS, GROUPS, COMPUTERS, PRINTERS, OUS, CONTACTS AND SHARED FOLDERS.

11. FEATURES OF AD

A. FULLY INTEGRATED SECURITY, INTEGRATION WITH DNS, POLICY BASED ADMINISTRATION, SCALABLE, FLEXIBLE, EXTENSIBLE, INTER OPERABILITY WITH OTHER DIRECTORY SERVICES.

12. WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF AD

A. LOGICAL STRUCTURE: DOMAINS, TREES, FORESTS & OUS

PHYSICAL STRUCTURE: SITES AND DOMAIN CONTROLLERS

13. WHAT IS STRUCTURE OF AD

A. LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL

14. WHAT IS THE PROTOCOL USED BY AD FOR DIRECTORY ACCESS

A. LDAP LIGHT WEIGHT DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL

15. WHAT ARE THE NAMING CONVENTIONS USED BY LDAP

A. DN-(DISTINGUISHED NAME) RDN-(RELATIVE DISTINGUISHED NAME)

UPN-(USER PRINCIPAL NAME) GUID-(GOLBAL UNIQUE IDENTIFIER)

16. WHAT IS A DOMAIN

A. DOMAIN IS COLLECTION OF COMPUTERS CONNECTED TOGETHER WITH A SERVER AND USERS.

17. WHAT IS WORKGROUP

A. COLLECTION OF COMPUTERS CONNECTED TOGETHER WITHOUT A SERVER (ONLY CLIENTS)

18. WHAT IS A TREE

A. TREE IS A LOGICAL COMPONENT OF AD. IS A COLLECTION OF DOMAINS WHICH SHARE CONTIGUOUS NAME SPACE

19. WHAT IS A FOREST

A. COLLECTION OF TREES WHICH DON’T SHARE CONTIGUOUS NAME SPACE.

20. WHAT IS A SITE

A. SITE IS A PHYSICAL COMPONENT OF AD. GROUP OF TCP/IP SUBNETS CONNECTED WITH A HIGH SPEED WAN LINK.

21. WHAT IS DC

A. SERVER WITH AD INSTALLED

22. WHAT IS A CHILD DC

A. IS A SUB DOMAIN CONTROLLER UNDER ROOT DOMAIN CONTROLLER WHICH SHARE NAME SPACE

23. WHAT IS AN ADDITIONAL DC

A. IT IS A BACKUP SERVER FOR DC

24. HOW TO PROMOTE DC ON A MEMBER SERVER

A. START – RUN – DCPROMO

25. WHAT IS A ROLE OF ADDITIONAL DC

A. IT MAINTAINS BACKUP OF AD TO PROVIDE FAULT TOLERANCE AND NETWORK LOAD BALANCING.

26. A DC CAN HAVE HOW MANY ADDITIONAL DCS

A. ANY NO. OF ADCS

27. WHAT ARE THE ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOUND AFTER INSTALLING A DC

A. ADUC, ADSS, ADDT, DCSP, DSP

28. WHAT ARE DIFF FUNCTIONAL LEVELS OF 2003

A. DOMAIN FUNCTIONAL LEVEL AND FOREST FUNCTIONAL LEVELS

29. WHAT IS A MEMBER SERVER

A. 2000 OF 2003 SERVER WHICH IS A PART OF THE DOMAIN

30. WHAT IS A STANDALONE SERVER

A. SERVER WHICH IS NOT A PART OF DOMAIN

31. WHAT IS AN OBJECT

A. IT IS A REPRESENTATION OF IN ENTITY

32. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT OBJECTS IN AD

A. USERS, GROUPS, COMPUTERS, PRINTERS, OUS, CONTACTS AND SHARED FOLDERS

33. WHAT IS A SCHEMA

A. SET OF RULES. SCHEMA IS DESIGN OF AD, DEFINES OBJECTS AND CLASSES

34. WHAT IS AN ATTRIBUTE

A. ATTRIBUTE IS A PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT OBJECTS (PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS)

35. WHAT IS A CLASS

A. CLASS IS A COLLECTION OF AD OBJECTS

36. WHAT IS AN FSMO

A. FLEXIBLE SINGLE MASTER OPERATIONS

37. WHAT ARE THE DIFF OPERATIONS MASTER OF 2003

A SCHEMA MASTER, DOMAIN NAMING MASTER, PDC EMULATOR, INFRASTRUCTURE MASTER, RID MASTER

38. WHAT IS A SCHEMA MASTER

A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER ALL MANAGEMENT, STRUCTURE AND DESIGN OF SCHEMA

ONLY ONE SCHEMA MASTER IN ENTIRE FOREST

39. WHAT IS A DOMAIN NAMING MASTER,

A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDITION OR REMOVAL OF DOMAINS AND MAINTAINING UNIQUE DOMAIN NAMES, ONLY ONE DN MASTER IN ENTIRE FOREST

40. WHAT IS A PDC EMULATOR

A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY FOR NT BDCS IN MIXED MODE. IT ACTS LIKE A PDC FOR BDCS. IT UPDATES THE PASSWORD CHANGES, SYNCHRONIZES TIME BETWEEN DCS, ONLY ONE PDC EMULATOR PER DOMAIN.

41. WHAT IS A INFRASTRUCTURE MASTER

A. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UPDATING USER AND GROUP MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION AND UPDATING GLOBAL CATALOG, ONLY ONE INFRASTRUCTURE MASTER PER DOMAIN

42. WHAT IS A RID MASTER

A. RELATIVE IDENTIFIER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSIGNING UNIQUE IDS TO THE OBJECTS CREATED IN THE AD, ONLY ONE RID MASTER PER DOMAIN

43. WHAT IS FILE SYSTEM

A. FILE SYSTEM PROVIDES THE SERVICES LIKE SAVING, DELETING & COPYING OF FILES & FOLDERS IN A SYSTEMATIC MANNER ON THE HARD DISK

44. WHAT ARE DIFF FS SUPPORTED BY 2000 & 2003

A. FAT, FAT32, NTFS, CDFS & UDFS

46. FEATURES OF NTFS IN 2000 & 2003

A. PROVIDES FILE & FOLDER LEVEL SECURITY, COMPRESSION, ENCRYPTION, REDUCED FRAGMENTATION, HOT FIXING, MAXIMUM PARTITION SIZE : 2 TB, FILE SIZE : UP TO 64 GB, DISK QUOTAS, MOUNTING.

45. NEWLY ADDED NTFS FEATURES IN 2003

A. VOLUME SHADOW COPY SERVICES, MAXIMUM PARTITION SIZE: 16 TB

FILE SIZE CAN BE UP TO 16 TB, RECOVERY LOGGING OF DISK ACTIVITIES

46. WHAT IS THE NTFS VERSION FOR 2000 & 2003

A. VER 5.0 & 5.1 FOR 2000 AND VER 5.2 FOR WIN 2003

47. WHAT ARE THE FILE & FOLDER PERMISSIONS IN 2K

A. FILE PERMISSIONS: FULLCONTROL, MODIFY, READ & EXECUTE, READ, WRITE, SPECIAL PERMISSIONS

FOLDER PERMISSIONS: FULLCONTROL, MODIFY, READ & EXECUTE LIST FOLDER CONTENTS, READ, WRITE, SPECIAL PERMISSIONS

48. WHAT IS THE SIGNIGICANCE OF MODIFY & FULL CONTROL PERMISSIONS

A. FC = RWXDO, MODIFY = RWXD

49. WHAT ARE THE ADVANCED PERMISSIONS AVAILABLE IN 2K

A. COMBINATION OF PERMISSIONS.

50. WHAT ARE THE FILE ATTRIBUTES

A. READ, WRITE, HIDDEN & ARCHIVE.

51. WHAT ARE THE SHARE LEVEL PERMISSIONS

A. FULL CONTROL, CHANGE, READ

52. HOW TO SHARE A RESOURCE (F/F, DRIVE, PRINTER, ETC...)

A. RIGHT CLICK - F/F – PROPERTIES - SHARE

53. SHARE/FILE NAMES CAN BE UPTO

A. SHARE NAME CAN BE UP TO 80 CHARACTERS, FILE NAMES CAN BE UP TO 255 CHARACTERS.

54. HOW TO MAP A SHARED RESOURCE

A. RIGHT CLICK ON THE SHARE AND CLICK MAP NETWORK DRIVE

55. HOW TO CONNECT TO A SHARED RESOURCE USING COMMAND PROMPT

A. START – RUN – CMD - NET USE Z: (\\SYSTEMNAME\SHARENAME)

56. WHAT IS NET USE, NET SHARE, NET VIEW, NET USER ETC

A. NET USE FOR MAPPING DRIVES, NET SHARE FOR CREATING SHARES, NET VIEW FOR USERS LOGGED IN AND NET USER FOR CREATING OR MODIFYING USERS

57. HOW TO SHARE A RESOURCE REMOTELY

A. FROM COMPUTER MANAGEMENT – CONNECT TO THE COMPUTER – SHARED FOLDERS – R/C SHARES- NEW SHARE

58. HOW TO ACCESS A REMOTE SHARE

A. START – RUN – (\\SN\SN) OR MY NETWORK PLACES

59. WHAT IS A QUOTA & ITS FEATURES

A. NEW FEATURE IN 2000 & 2003. QUOTAS ENABLE IN ADMINISTRATOR TO LIMIT THE ACCESS TO THE FREE SPACE ON LOCAL OR SERVER’S HARD DISKS

60. WHAT IS A DFS,

A. DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM ENABLE IN ADMINISTRATOR TO GATHER ALL THE SCATTERED SHARES ON THE NETWORK AND MAINTAIN IN A SINGLE SERVER AND MAKE THEM APPEAR AS IF THEY ARE ON THE SAME SIDE SERVER

61. BENEFITS OF DFS

A. EASY FILE ACCESS, FAULT TOLERANCE, LOAD BALANCING AND SECURITY

63. DFS TERMINOLOGY

A. DOMAIN DFS ROOT, STANDALONE DFS ROOT & DFS LINK

64. DIFF B/W DOMAIN DFS ROOT AND STAND ALONE DFS ROOT

A. DOMAIN DFS ROOT OFFERS FAULT TOLERANCE AND LOAD BALANCING, CAN BE CONFIGURED ONLY ON DC. STAND ALONE DFS ROOT DOES NOT OFFER FT & LB CAN BE CONFIGURED ONLY ON STAND ALONE SERVER

62. WHAT IS A DFS REPLICA OR TARGET

A. IT IS A BACKUP FOR DOMAN DFS ROOT ON ANOTHER SERVER

63. HOW MANY DFS ROOTS CAN EXIST FOR A DC

A. 5000 TO 50000

64. HOW MANY DFS LINKS CAN EXIST FOR A DC

A. 5000 TO 50000

65. NO OF DFS REPLICAS CAN EXIST FOR A DC

A. 31

66. WHAT IS EFS & ITS FEATURES

A. ENCRYPTION IS THE PROCESS OF CONVERTING DATA INTO A FORMAT THAT CANNOT BE READ BY ANOTHER USER. ONCE A USER HAS ENCRYPTED A FILE, THE FILE AUTOMATICALLY REMAINS ENCRYPTED WHENEVER THE FILE IS STORED ON DISK.

DECRYPTION IS THE PROCESS OF CONVERTING DATA FROM ENCRYPTED FORMAT BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL FORMAT. ONCE A USER HAS DECRYPTED A FILE, THE FILE REMAINS DECRYPTED WHENEVER THE FILE IS STORED ON DISK.

67. WHAT IS A TRUST

A. TRUST IS THE PROCESS OF OFFERING OR ACCESSING RESOURCES FROM ONE DOMAIN TO ANOTHER DOMAIN.

68. WHAT IS A TRANSITIVE TRUST

A. IT IS A TWO WAY TRUST

EX. IF A TRUSTS B, B AUTOMATICALLY TRUSTS A

69. WHAT IS A IN/NON TRANSITIVE TRUST

A. IT IS ONE WAY TRUST

EX. IF A TRUSTS B, B DOES NOT TRUST A

70. WHAT IS AN IMPLICIT TRUST

A. TRUST BETWEEN THE PARENT DOMAIN AND GRAND CHILD DOMAIN

71. WHAT IS AN EXPLICIT TRUST

A. IT IS A MANUAL TRUST ESTABLISHED BY ADMINISTRATOR BETWEEN TWO FOREST OR DOMAINS

72. WHAT IS THE DEFAULT TRUST BETWEEN THE PARENT & A CHILD DOMAIN

A. TWO WAY TRANSITIVE TRUST

73. HOW TO IMPLEMENT A TRUST

A. S-P-AT-ADDT-DOMAIN PROPERTIES-TRUST

74. AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS OF W2K

A. KERBEROS & NTLM

75. WHAT IS SPOOFING

76. WHAT IS A KDC

A. KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTRE (DC) WHICH ISSUES KEYS TO THE CLIENTS

77. WHAT IS KERBEROS

A. IT IS AN AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL OF WIN 2000 & 2003

78. WHAT IS NTLM

A. IT IS AN AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL OF WIN NT

79. AUTHENTICATION PROCESS IN 2000 & 2003

A. 1.CLIENTS SENDS A REQUEST TO DC

B. DC CREATES A CLIENT SESSION KEY & SERVER SESSION KEY.

C. THE SERVER SESSION KEY PACKAGES CLIENT INFORMATION AND SERVER SESSION KEY AND FORMS A SESSION TICKET.

D. CLIENT SESSION KEY AND SESSION TICKET ARE SENT TO THE CLIENT WHICH CONSISTS OF RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS.

E. THEN THE SERVER VERIFIES THE AUTHENTICATOR BETWEEN THE CLIENT & SERVER

F. ALLOWS THE RESOURCE

80. FEATURES OF KERBEROS

A. INTRODUCED IN THE YEAR 1991 BY MIT (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)

B. WINDOWS 2000 WAS FIRST TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROTOCOL

C. KERBEROS IS A NAME OF 3 HEADED DOG (CERDEROS)

D. IT FALLOWS A 3 HEADED APPROACH WHILE AUTHENTICATING THE USERS

E. IT PROVIDES HIGH LEVEL OF SECURITY

F. IT ENCRYPTS THE USER NAME & PASSWORD WHEN THEY ARE BEING SENT OVER N/W

81. WHAT IS A TIMESTAMP

A. TIME CHECKED WHILE USER LOGS IN

82. WHAT IS A TIME SERVICE

83. WHAT IS TGT & TGS

84. WHAT IS A BASIC DISK & DYNAMIC DISK

A. BASIC DISK REFERS TO PARTITIONS, DYNAMIC REFERS TO VOLUMES

85. WHAT IS A SIMPLE, SPANNED , STRIPPED, MIRRORED AND RAID 5 VOLUME

A. SIMPLE VOLUME : SPACE FROM SINGLE HARD DISK FORMS SIMPLE VOLUME

B. SPANNED VOLUME : FREE SPACE CAN SPAN MORE THAN ONE HARD DISK AND APPEARS AS A SINGLE VOLUME

C. STRIPPED VOLUME: SPACE SELECTION FROM EACH HARD DISK IS IDENTICAL IN SIZE

D. MIRRORED VOLUME: IS AN ADDITIONAL HARD DISK USED FOR IMAGING PRIMARY HARD DISK TO PROTECT THE DATA IN THE SECOND DISK WHEN FIRST DISK FAILS.

86. WHAT IS RAID? RAID0, RAID 1, & RAID5

A. REDUNDANCY ARRAY INEXPENSIVE DISKS : IT IS A STANDARD USED FOR PROTECTING THE DATA

B. RAID0 : STRIPING WITHOUT PARITY OFFERS NO FAULT TOLERANCE

C. RAID1: MIRRORING OFFERS FAULT TOLERANCE, DOESN’T OFFER PERFORMANCE, REQUIRES DOWN TIME.

D. RAID5: STRIPING WITH PARITY OFFERS HIGHEST FAULT TOLERANCE, OFFERS AVAILABILITY AND PERFORMANCE I.E NO DOWN TIME.

87. DRIVES ARE REQUIRED FOR RAID 0,1,5

A. RAID0 : MINIMUM 2 DISKS AND MAXIMUM 32

B. RAID1 : MINIMUM & MAXIMUM 2 DISKS

C. RAID5 : MINIMUM 3 AND MAXIMUM 32

88. WHICH OF THE RAIDS PROVIDE HIGHEST FT

A. RAID 5

89. HOW TO REGENARATE THE DATA LOST FROM RAID 1 & 5

A. BY FIXING NEW HDD SELECTING REGENERATE OPTION BY RIGHT CLICKING ON THE DRIVE FROM DISK MANAGEMENT.

90. PRINT PROCESS IN 2K AND 2003

Application

DOCUMENT TO BE PRINTED HANDED OVER TO GDI

GDI

Print Drivers

GDI INVOKES PRINT DRIVERS AND DRIVERS CONVERT THE DOC FORMAT TO EITHER RAW OR EMF AND HANDS OVER TO THE SPOOLER

Spooler

SPOOLER GATHERS THE DOCUMENT TO THE LOCAL HDD AND HANDS OVER TO PRINT PROCESSOR

Print Processor

PRINT PROCESSOR PRESENTS THE FORMAT TO THE PRINTER WHICH IS UNDERSTANDABLE BY THE PRINTER (RAW) AND HANDS OVER TO PRINT MONITOR

Monitor

PRINT MONITOR DETERMINES THE PORT TO WHICH PRINT DEVICE IS ATTACHED SUBMITS THE DATA TO PRINT DEVICE

Print Device

PRINTS THE OUTPUT

91. WHAT IS A PRINT POOL

A. GROUP OF PRINTERS

92. WHAT IS THE DIFF B/W RAW & EMF FORMAT

A. RAW FORMAT IS THE ONLY FORMAT PRINTER UNDERSTANDS

B. EMF (ENHANCED META FORMAT) IT IS A COMPRESSED FORMAT USED FOR FASTER PRINTING OVER THE N/W.

93. WHAT IS LOCAL PRINTER

A. THE PRINTER WHICH IS DIRECTLY ATTACHED TO THE COMPUTER

95. WHAT IS A NETWORK PRINTER

A. A PRINTER WITH ITS OWN NIC

94. HOW TO CONNECT TO A REMOTE PRINT DEVICE

A. MY NETWORK PLACES, BROWSE THE PRINTERS, R/C CONNECT

95. WHAT ARE THE DEFAULT BUILT IN USER A/CS

A. ADMINISTRATOR AND GUEST A/CS

96. WHAT ARE THE DEFAULT BUILT IN GROUP A/CS

A. ACCOUNT OPERATORS, SERVER OPERATORS, BACKUP OPERATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, PRINT OPERATORS, ETC

97. WHAT IS A LOCAL GROUP

A. A GROUP WHICH CAN BE CREATED ON CLIENT COMPUTER

98. WHAT IS A DOMAIN LOCAL GROUP

A. A GROUP WITH PRE-DEFINED RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS USED FOR SETTING PERMISSIONS

99. WHAT IS A GLOBAL GROUP

A. IS A COLLECTION OF USERS USED FOR ORGANIZING USERS

100. WHAT IS A GROUP SCOPE

A. GROUP SCOPE IDENTIFIES THE EXTENT OF THE GROUP THAT IT CAN SPAN WITH IN A DOMAIN OR FOREST

101. WHAT IS A UNIVARSAL GROUP

A. GROUP MADE UP OF USERS FROM DIFFERENT DOMAINS

102. WHAT ARE TWO TYPES OF GROUPS

A. DISTRIBUTION, SECURITY

103. WHAT ARE THE USER ENVIRONMENT NEEDS

A. DESKTOP SETTINGS, STARTUP APPLICATIONS & NETWORK CONNECTIVITY

104. WHAT IS A PROFILE

A. PROFILE IS COMBINATION OF USER ENVIRONMENT, DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT

105. WHAT IS A POLICY

A. POLICY IS A FEATURE OF OS WHICH DETERMINES WHICH USER HAS WHAT TYPE OF ACCESS TO THE N/W RESOURCES (WHAT A USER CAN AND CAN’T DO IN A N/W)

106. WHAT ARE THE DIFF POLICIES SUPPORTED IN 2K

A. ACCOUNT, AUDIT, SECURITY AND GROUP POLICY

107. WHAT ARE DIFF TYPES OF PROFILES

A. LOCAL : PROFILE WHICH IS SAVED IN THE LOCAL HDD WHERE THE USER WORKS AVAILABLE ONLY ONE COMPUTER

B. ROAMING : PROFILE WHICH IS SAVED IN THE SERVER AND AVAILABLE IN THE ENTIRE NETWORK

C. MANDATORY : AVAILABLE IN THE ENTIRE N/W BUT SETTING ARE NOT SAVED WHEN A USER LOGS OFF

108. HOW THE PROFILE IS APPLIED

A. WHEN THE USER LOGS IN IS LOADED WITH A LOCAL PROFILE AND N/W PROFILE WHICH EVER IS LATEST TAKES PRECEDENCE

109. HOW THE GROUP POLICY IS APPLIED

A. FIRST COMPUTER POLICY IS APPLIED THEN SITE, DOMAIN AND OU LEVEL

110. DIFF SECURITY POLICES OF 2K

A. LOCAL SECURITY POLICY : WHICH IS LIMITED IN ONLY TO THE LOCAL MACHINE

B. DOMAIN SECURITY POLICY : APPLIES TO ALL THE DOMAINS & COMPUTERS WITH IN THE DOMAIN

C. DOMAIN CONTROLLER SECURITY POLICY : APPLIES POLICIES ONLY TO ONE DOMAIN CONTROLLER

111. WHAT IS A RIGHT

A. IT IS A PERMISSION OR TYPE OF ACCESS WHAT A USER CAN DO AND CAN’T DO

112. WHAT IS A GROUP POLICY

A. IT IS A COMBINATION OF PERMISSIONS, SECURITY AND RIGHTS WHICH CAN BE APPLIED ON SITES, DOMAINS AND OUS

113. WHAT IS A GROUP POLICY OBJECT

A. AN OBJECT WITH A COMBINATION OF PERMISSIONS/POLICIES WHICH CAN BE LINKED WITH SITES, DOMAINS AND OUS

114. HOW TO LINK GPO WITH DC/SITE/OU

A. DC PROPERTIES - GROUP POLICY – NEW – GPO NAME

115. WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF GROUP POLICY

A. GROUP POLICY OFFERS SECURITY, SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT, FOLDER REDIRECTION, LOGON LOGOFF SCRIPTS, INTERNET EXPLORER MAINTENANCE, BACK UP AND RESTORE ETC.

116. GP CAN BE IMPLIMENTABLE ON

A. LOCAL COMPUTER, SITES, DOMAINS, DCS AND OUS

117. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INHERITENCE OF GROUP POLICY

A. WHEN YOU APPLY POLICY ON SITE LEVEL, POLICY GETS INHERITED BY ALL THE DOMAINS AND OUS

118. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOCKING GROUP POLICY INHERITANCE

A. WHEN A CHILD OBJECT NEED NOT BE EFFECTED WITH THE POLICY APPLIED ON THE PARENT

120. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LINKING AN EXISTING GP WITH ANOTHER CONTAINER

A. A SINGLE GPO CAN HAVE MULTIPLE POLICIES SET AND CAN BE LINKED WITH SITES DOMAINS AND OUS. NEED NOT CREATE MULTIPLE GPOS.

119. WHAT IS THE ORDER IN WHICH GPOS ARE APPLIED

A. ALWAYS THE FIRST POLICY IS APPLIED THEN THE SECOND AND SO ON

120. WHAT ARE THE SUBFOLDERS SEEN UNDER COMPUTER CONFIGURATION &

USER CONFIGURATION

A. COMPUTER CONFIGURATION, SOFTWARE SETTING, WINDOWS SETTINGS AND ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES

B. USER CONFIGURATION, SOFTWARE SETTING, WINDOWS SETTINGS AND ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES

121. HOW TO APPLY SECURITY POLICIES USING GP

A. USING LSP, DSP, AND DCSP UNDER ADMIN TOOLS.

122. WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF DEPLOYING SOFTWARES USING GP

A. AUTOMATING, UPGRADING AND REPAIRING SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ONLINE

123. WHAT ARE THE THREE PRIMARY GP SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT METHODS

A. PUBLISHED, ASSIGNED AND ADVANCED

124. LAN PROTOCOLS SUPPORTED BY 2K

A. NETBEUI, IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, NWLINK, APPLETALK, DECNET

WINDOWS RAS AND ARAP

125. WAN PROTOCOLS SUPPORTED BY 2K & 03

A. SLIP, PPP

126. VPN PROTOCOLS SUPPORTED BY 2K & 03

A. L2F, PPTP AND L2TP

127. DIFF RAS AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOLS

A. PAP, CHAP, MSCHAP AND MSCHAP V2

129 WHAT IS AN ARP

A. ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL USED FOR MAPPING IP TO MAC

128. FEATURES OF TCP/IP

A. IT IS A MOST POPULAR LAN AND WAN PROTOCOL

B. SUPPORTED BY MANY OS

C. IT IS A ROUTABLE PROTOCOL

D. IT IS A ROBUST PROTOCOL

E. AVAILABLE IN TWO VERSIONS IP V.4 & IP V.6

129. WHAT IS A SUBNET MASK

A. ACTS LIKE A MASK BETWEEN N/W AND HOST ID OR USED FOR DIFFERENTIATING N/W WITH HOST ID

130. WHAT IS SUBNETTING

A. DIVIDING THE SAME N/W INTO SMALLER SUBNETS

131. WHAT IS A GATEWAY

A. ADDRESS OF A ROUTER

132. WHAT ARE THE DIFF TCP/IP CLASSES

A. A, B, C, D AND E

133. WHAT ARE THE RESERVED IP ADDRESSES

A. 10.0.0.1 TO 10.255.255.254

B. 172.16.0.1 TO 172.31.255.254

C. 192.168.0.1 TO 192.168.255.255

134. WHAT IS ‘IANA’

A. INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERING AUTHORITY IS NOW CALLED AS INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNING NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN)

135. WHAT IS MULTICASTING

A. USE OF CLASS D IPS : USED FOR PUBLISHING THE SAME MESSAGE TO GROUP OF PEOPLE

136. WHAT IS A NETWORK ID

A. 0.0.0.0

137. WHAT IS A BROADCAST ID

A. 255.255.255.255

137. WHAT IS A LOOP BACK ID

A. 127.0.0.1

139. DIFF TROUBLESHOOTING UTILITIES OF TCP/IP

A. PING, IPCONFIG, NBTSTAT, NETSTAT, PATHPING, TRACERT ETC

138. WHAT ARE THE CORE PROTOCOLS OF TCP/IP

A. TCP, UDP, ICMP AND ARP

139. WHAT IS ROUTING

A. PROCESS OF PROVIDING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT N/WS

140. WHAT IS DIFF BETWEEN STATIC & DYNAMIC ROUTING

A. STATIC ROUTING: DOESN’T REQUIRE ANY PROTOCOLS AND ROUTING TABLE REMAINS STATIC UNTIL ADMIN CHANGES.

B. DYNAMIC ROUTING : USES DYNAMIC ROUTING PROTOCOLS LIKE RIP V2, OSPF, IGMP AND IGRP. ROUTING TABLE GETS CHANGED AUTOMATICALLY OR DYNAMICALLY AS AND WHEN THERE IS A CHANGE IN ROUTING I.E ADDITION OR REMOVAL OF ROUTERS MODIFICATION OF ROUTING TABLE.

141. WHAT ARE THE ROUTING PROTOCOLS

A. OSPF, RIP VER2, NAT, IGMP

142. HOW TO ENABLE ROUTING

A. START-PROGRAMS-ADMIN TOOLS-RRAS-R/C SERVER - CONFIGURE AND ENABLED

143. WHAT IS NATTING

A. ENABLING ONE WAY COMMUNICATION I.E PRIVATE NETWORK CAN COMMUNICATE WITH PUBLIC BUT PUBLIC CAN’T COMMUNICATE WITH PRIVATE.

144. WHAT IS DIFF BETWEEN PRIVATE & PUBLIC IPS

A. IPS WHICH ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE BY ALL ARE CALLED PRIVATE IPS

B. IPS WHICH ARE ACCESSIBLE ARE CALLED PUBLIC IPS.

145. WHICH ORGANIZATION ISSUES PUBLIC IPS

A. ICANN OR IANA

146. WHAT IS SNMP

A. SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL: USED FOR TROUBLESHOOTING & MANAGING THE N/W.

147. WHAT IS SMTP

A. SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL: USED FOR SENDING MAILS

148. WHAT IS POP/POP3 & IMAP4

A. POST OFFICE PROTOCOL : USED FOR RECEIVING MAILS

B. INTERNET MAIL ACCESS PROTOCOL : USED FOR RECEIVING MAILS

149. DIFF H/W DEVICES SUPPORTED BY RAS

A. PSTN MODEMS, ISDN MODEMS, X.25 PADS, RS232 INTERFACE AND DSL MODEMS

150. WHAT IS DNS

A. DOMAIN NAMING SERVICE OR SYSTEM: USED FOR RESOLVING HOST NAMES TO IPS AND IPS TO HOST NAMES

151. WHAT IS ‘NBNS’

A. NETBIOS NAMING SYSTEM EX: WINS

152. 2K/2003 SYSTEMS ACCESS RESOURCES USING ___NAMING CONVENTIONS

A DNS

153. WHAT IS A FORWARD LOOKUP

A. RESOLVING HOST NAMES TO IP ADDRESSES

154. WHAT IS A REVERSE LOOKUP

A. RESOLVING IP ADDRESSES TO HOST NAMES

155. WHAT IS A HOST RECORD

A. IT’S A FILE CONTAINS HOST NAMES TO IP MAPPING INFORMATION

156. WHAT IS A RESOURCE RECORD

A. IT IS A RECORD PROVIDES THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE N/W

INFRASTRUCTURE

157. WHAT ARE THE DIFF DNS ROLES

A. STANDARD PRIMARY, STANDARD SECONDARY & AD INTEGRATED

158. WHAT IS A ZONE

A. ZONE IS A SUB TREE OF DNS DATABASE

159. WHAT IS PRIMARY, SECONDARY, STUB & AD INTEGRATED ZONE

A. PRIMARY: ZONE WHICH IS SAVED AS NORMAL TEXT FILE WITH FILENAME.DNS IN DNS FOLDER. MAINTAINS A READ WRITE COPY OF ZONE DATABASE

B. SECONDARY: MAINTAINS A READ ONLY COPY OF ZONE DATABASE ON ANOTHER DNS SERVER. PROVIDES FAULT TOLERANCE AND LOAD BALANCING BY ACTING AS BACKUP SERVER TO PRIMARY SERVER

C. STUB: CONTAINS A COPY OF NAME SERVER AND SOA RECORDS USED FOR REDUCING THE DNS SEARCH ORDERS. PROVIDES FAULT TOLERANCE AND LOAD BALANCING

160. WHAT DOES A ZONE CONSIST OF & WHY DO WE REQUIRE A ZONE

A. ZONE CONSISTS OF RESOURCE RECORDS AND WE REQUIRE ZONE FOR REPRESENTING SITES

161. WHAT IS CACHING ONLY SERVER

A. WHEN WE INSTALL 2000 & 03 SERVER IT IS CONFIGURED AS CACHING ONLY SERVER WHERE IT MAINTAINS THE FREQUENTLY ACCESSED SITES INFORMATION AND AGAIN WHEN WE ACCESS THE SAME SITE FOR NEXT TIME IT IS OBTAIN FROM CACHED INFORMATION INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE ACTUAL SITE.

162. WHAT IS FORWARDER

A. WHEN ONE DNS SERVER CAN’T RESOLVE THE QUERY IT CAN BE FORWARDED TO ANOTHER DNS ONCE CONFIGURED AS FORWARDER.

163. WHATIS SECONDARY DNS SERVER

A. IT IS BACKUP FOR PRIMARY DNS WHERE IT MAINTAINS A READ ONLY COPY OF DNS DATABASE.

164. HOW TO ENABLE DYNAMIC UPDATES IN DNS

A. S-P-AT-DNS-ZONE PROPERTIES

165. WHAT ARE THE PROPERTIES OF DNS SERVER

A. INTERFACES, FORWARDERS, ADVANCED, ROOTHINTS, SECURITY, MONITORING,

LOGGING, DEBUG LOGINIG.

166. PROPERTIES OF A ZONE

A. GENERAL, SOA, NAMESERVER, WINS, SECURITY AND ZONE TRANSFER

167. WHAT IS SCAVENGING

A. FINDING AND DELETING UNWANTED RECORDS

168. WHAT ARE SRV RECORDS

A. SRV ARE THE SERVICE RECORDS, THERE ARE 6 SERVICE RECORDS. THEY ARE USEFUL FOR LOCATING THE SERVICES

169. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF SRV RECORDS

A. MSDCS : CONTAINS DCS INFORMATION

B. TCP : CONTAINS GLOBAL CATALOG, KERBEROS AND LDAP INFORMATION

C. UDP : CONTAINS KERBEROS INFORMATION

D. SITES : CONTAINS SITES INFORMATION

E. DOMAIN DNS ZONE : CONTAINS DOMAIN’S DNS SPECIFIC INFORMATION

F. FOREST DNS ZONE : CONTAINS FOREST’S SPECIFIC INFORMATION

170. WHERE DOES A HOST FILE RESIDE

A. C: WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC

171. WHAT IS AN SOA RECORD

A. START OF AUTHORITY: USEFUL WHEN A ZONE STARTS. PROVIDES THE ZONE STARTUP INFORMATION

172. WHAT IS A QUERY

A. A REQUEST MADE BY THE DNS CLIENT TO PROVIDE THE NAME SERVER INFORMATION

173. WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF QURIES

A. RECURSION, ITERATION

174. TOOLS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING DNS

A. DNS CONSOLE, NSLOOKUP, DNSCMD, IPCONFIG, LOGS, PERFORMANCE MONITOR

175. WHAT IS DHCP

A. DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL: ASSIGNS IPS TO THE CLIENTS REQUESTED DYNAMICALLY OR AUTOMATICALLY

176. PROCESS OF DHCP (DORA)

A. DISCOVER : THE CLIENT DISCOVERS DHCP

B. OFFER : THE DHCP SERVER OFFERS A GROUP OF IPS TO THE CLIENTS TO PICK ANY

C. REQUEST : THE CLIENT SELECTS AN IP AND REQUEST DHCP TO CONFIRM IT

D. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT : THE DHCP SERVER MAKES A CONFIRMATION BY SENDING AN DHCPACK TO THE CLIENT

177. WHAT IS A SCOPE

A. RANGE OF IP ADDRESSES

178. WHAT IS AN IP LEASE

A. DHCP SERVER OFFERS AN IP TO THE CLIENT FOR A PERIOD OF 8 DAYS. THIS OFFER IS CALLED IP LEASE

179. WHAT IS THE DEFAULT DURATION OF A LEASE

A. 8 DAYS

180. WHAT IS AUTHORIZING DHCP SERVER

A. ENABLING AD KNOW THE AVAILABILITY OF DHCP SERVER. USEFUL WHEN WE HAVE MULTIPLE DHCP SERVERS AND YOU WANT TO DESIGNATE ONE PARTICULAR DHCP SERVER TO BE ACTIVE. THEN WE SHOULD AUTHORIZE.

181. WHAT IS IP RESERVATION

A. RESERVING A PARTICULAR DYNAMIC IP FOR A PARTICULAR SYSTEM

182. WHAT IS EXCLUSION

A. OMITTING ASSIGNING FROM THE RANGE SELECTED IPS.

183. WHAT IS A SUPER SCOPE

A. GROUP OF SCOPES IS CALLED AS SUPER SCOPE.

184. PURPOSE OF DHCP RELAY AGENT

A. DHCP SERVER IS AVAILABLE ON ANOTHER N/W AND YOU WANT ANOTHER N/W TO OBTAIN IPS FROM THE DHCP SERVER. THEN THE DHCP RELAY AGENT HAS TO BE CONFIGURED ON THE ROUTER SO THAT THE DHCP RA CAN FORWARD THE REQUESTS FROM THE CLIENTS TO THE DHCP SERVER TO OBTAIN IPS FOR THE CLIENTS IT ACT LIKE A MEDIATOR BETWEEN CLIENTS AND DHCP.

185. HOW TO GIVEUP AN IP OBTAINED FROM DHCP

A. S-R-CMD- IPCONFIG /RELEASE

186. HOW TO OBTAIN A NEW IP FROM DHCP SERVER

A. S-R-CMD- IPCONFIG /RENEW

187. SWITCHES USED WITH IPCONFIG

A. IPCONFIG /ALL, RELEASE, RENEW, FLUSHDNS

188. IF THE CLIENT IS UNABLE TO CONTACT DHCP SERVER, WHAT HAPPENS

A. OBTAINS AN IP FROM APIPA

189. WHAT IS APIPA

A. AUTOMATIC PRIVATE IP ADDRESSING, WHEN A CLIENT MACHINE UNABLE TO CONTACT DHCP THEN APIPA ASSIGNS AN IP TO THE CLIENT. THIS ENABLES THE N/W AVAILABILITY.

190. WHAT ARE THE IP RANGES PROVIDED BY APIPA

A. 169.254.0.0 TO 169.254.255.255

191. WHAT IS WINS

A. WINDOW INTERNET NAMING SERVICE: USEFUL IN WINDOWS N/W ONLY. RESOLVES NETBIOS NAMES TO IP ADDRESSES AND IPS TO NETBIOS NAMES.

192. WINS IS USED IN WHICH ENVIRONMENTS

A. WHEN THE N/W HAS OS LIKE 95, WKS, NT, 98

193. WINS SUPPORTS ___CONVENTIONS

A. NBNS

194. DIFF BETWEEN NBNS & DNS CONVENTIONS

A. WINS USES NBNS CONVENTIONS AND DNS USES DNS CONVENTIONS

195. WHAT ARE THE PORT NUMBERS FOR:

FTP,TELNET,SMTP,DNS,HTTP,POP3,IMAP,SNMP,NNTP,LDAP,L2TP,PPTP,KERBEROS, DNS,HOSTNAME,RADIUS,LDAP, AND WINS

A. FTP-21, TELNET-23, SMTP-25, DNS-53, HTTP-80, POP3-110, IMAP-143,

SNMP-161, NNTP-119, LDAP-389, L2TP-1701, PPTP-1723, KERBEROS-88, DHCP67, HOSTNAME-42, RADIUS-1812, WINS-1512, ROUTER-520

196. WHAT IS IIS

A. IT IS A WEB SERVER FROM MICROSOFT

197. WHAT ARE THE SERVICES OFFERED BY IIS

A. WWW, HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, FRONTPAGE, ASP.NET SERVICES

198. WHICH VER OF IIS IS WITH 2K & 03

A. WIN 2K-IIS 5.0 AND WIN03- IIS 6.0

199. WHAT IS A VIRTUAL DIRECTORY

A. USING VIRTUAL DIRECTORY WE CAN HAVE CHILD WEBSITES OR LINKS TO PARENT WEBSITES

200. WHAT IS REGISTRY

A. REGISTRY IS A CONFIGURATION DATABASE ABOUT SYSTEM, HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

201. ICMP AND ITS IMPORTANCE

A. INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL : RESPONSIBLE FOR GENERATING MESSAGES LIKE REQUESTED TIME OUT, DESTINATION NOT REACHABLE, TTL, AND OTHER ECHO MESSAGES.

202. WHAT ARE THE BOOTABLE FILES

A. NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, BOOT.INI, NTOSKRNL.EXE, BOOTSECT.DOS

203. WHAT IS A PAGE FILE

A. A PAGE FILE IS USED AS VIRTUAL MEMORY.

204. HOW TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF PAGING FILE

A. SYSTEM PROPERTIES-ADVANCED-PERFORMANCE SETTINGS-ADVANCED-CHANGE

205. WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF SPLITTING A PAGE FILE AMONG DRIVES

A. IMPROVES THE I/O PERFORMANCE

206. WHAT IS A FILE REPLICATION

A. REPLICATION IS PROCESS OF DUPLICATING FILES OF ONE SERVER TO ANOTHER SERVER.

207. WHAT IS A SYSVOL

A IT IS A PUBLIC FOLDER GETS REPLICATED ON TO ALL DCS AND CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT USERS AND INFORMATION LIKE POLICIES AND PROFILES.

208. WHAT IS A DEFAULT TIME FOR REPLICATION TO TAKE PLACE B/W DC AND ADC

A. 5 SECONDS AND 3 SECONDS FOR IMMEDIATE CHANGE

209. WHAT IS AN INTERSITE AND INTRASITE REPLICATION

A. WHEN

210. HOW TO DEPLOY SOFTWARE

211. WHAT ARE DIFF ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

212. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY USER AND SYSTEM VARIABLES

213. WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF WIN2K ARCHITECTURE

214. WHAT IS AN SMS SERVER

215. WHAT IS AN ISA SERVER

216. WHAT IS A GLOBAL CATALOG SERVER

217. AD IS DIVIDED INTO___PARTITIONS

218. DOMAIN PARTITION CONTAINS__INFORMATION

219. CONFIG PARTITION CONTAINS__INFORMATION

220. SCHEMA PARTITION CONTAINS__INFORMATION

221. WHAT IS NTDS

222. WHERE TO CHANGE SERVER ROLES

223. WHAT DOES A NETLOGON SERVICE DO

224. HOW TO MONITOR REPLICATION

225. WHAT IS CLUSTERING

226. PREREQUSITES TO PREPARE CLUSTER SET

227. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY COMPLETE, KERNEL AND SMALL MEMORYDUMP

228. WHERE THE DEBUGGING INF IS SAVED

229. WHAT IS A DIGITAL SIGNATURE

230. WHAT IS THIN CLIENT

231. TS GETS INSTALLED IN___AND___MODES

232. WHAT IS AN RDP

233. WHAT IS A REMOTE ADMINISTRATION MODE

234. WHAT IS A APPLICATION SERVER MODE

235. WHAT ARE THE MIN H/W REQUIREMENTS FOR TS

236. NAME A FEW ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS

237. WHAT ARE THE PREREQUISITES FOR RIS

238. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PXE

239. WHAT ALL THE O/S DOES RIS SUPPORT

240. WHAT IS A CD IMAGE AND A CLIENT IMAGE

241. WHAT IS DEPLOYMENT

242. WHAT ARE THE 3 DEPLOYMENT TOOLS

243. WHAT IS THE DIFF AMONG 1)SETUPMGR 2) SYSPREP 3)RIS

244. WHAT IS A DISTRIBUTION FOLDER

245. WHAT IS AN UNATTENDED INSTALLATION

246. WHAT IS AN ANSWER FILE

247. HOW TO PERFORM AN UNATTENDED INSTALLATION

248. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PRESTAGING CLIENTS

249. AN EXAMPLE OF AN FQDN

250. WHAT IS A URL,UNC,FQDN,

251. WHAT ARE NAMING CONVENTIONS USED BY LDAP

252. WHAT IS THE DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL USED BY AD

253. WHAT IS RDN,DN,UPN AND GUID

254. DIFF B/W HOST RECORD AND ALIAS RECORD

255. WHAT IS A CONTACT

256. WHAT ARE THE DIFF TYPES OF BACKUP

257. WHAT IS AN ERD AND ITS COMPONENTS

258. WHAT IS A SYSTEM STATE DATA BACKUP

259. WHAT ALL THE MEDIA SUPPORTED BY BACKUP

260. WHAT IS AN AUTHORITATIVE AND NON AUTHORITATIVE RESTORE OF AD

261. WHICH VER OF TCP/IP IS IN 2K

262. VER 6 OF TCP/IP IS OF___BITS

263. WHAT IS HYBERNATION

264. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NTLDR,NTOSKRNL,BOOT.INI

265. WHAT IS A DDNS

266. WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF INTEGRATING DNS AND DHCP

267. WHAT IS THE DIFF B/W REGEDT32 AND REGEDIT

268. WHAT IS BOOTP

269. WHAT DOES LMHOSTS FILE CONTAIN

270. WHO DEVELOPED KERBEROS

271. WHAT IS PKI

272. WHAT IS A PUBLIC/PRIVATE KEY

273. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF KCC

274. WHAT IS A CA

275. WHAT IS ENTERPRISE ROOT CA

276. WHAT IS A ENTERPRISE SUBORDINATE CA

277. WHAT IS STANDALONE ROOT CA

278. WHAT IS STANDALONE SUBORDINATE CA

279. WHAT IS A CERTIFICATE SERVICE

280. WHAT IS A HOST FILE

281. WHAT IS A STALE RECORD

282. WHAT IS DYNAMIC ROUTING

283. WHAT ARE SECURITY GROUPS

284. WHAT IS A PTR RECORD

285. WHAT ARE REMOTE ACCESS POLICIES

286. WHAT IS DEMAND DIALING

287. WHAT IS AUDITING

288. WHAT IS A DISTRIBUTION GROUP

289. WHAT IS A MULTIHOMED SYSTEM

290. WHAT IS RIPREP

291. HOW TO UPGRADE NT SERVER TO 2K SERVER

292. HOW TO CREATE INSTALLATION DISKS

293. HOW TO CREATE BOOTABLE DISK

294. WHAT IS DSC

295. HOW TO SEIZE FSMO ROLES

296. WHAT IS A RECURSIVE QUERY

297. WHAT IS AN ITERATION QUERY

298. UG CAN CONTAIN DLG T/F

299. DLG CAN CONTAIN UG T/F

300. GG CAN CONTAIN GG T/F

301. WHERE DOES THE SCRIPTS FOLDER EXIST

302. ADVANCED SERVER SUPPORTS__GB OF RAM

303. CLUSTERING IS A FEATURE OF___SERVER

304. ____SERVER IS SUITABLE FOR EXTREMELY LARGE DATABASE AND REAL-TIME ONLINE TRANSACTION PROCESSING

305. CONVERTING BASIC TO DYNAMIC DISKS NEED MIN ___MB OF FREE SPACE ON THE HDD

306. WHICH OF THE RAID LEVELS OFFERS HIGHEST FT

307. REVERTING DYNAMIC TO BASIC DISKS, DATA IS LOST T/F

308. HOW TO SHARE A RESOURCE REMOTLY

309. HOW TO MANAGE DISKS OF A REMOTE COMPUTER

310. WHAT IS MOUNTING

311. CAN WE INSTALL XP-PRO USING RIS Y/N

312. 2K STANDARD SERVER SUPPORTS SMP UPTO___PROCESSORS

313. FAULT TOLORANCE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY 2K PRO T/F

314. WHAT IS A PREFERRED DNS

315. WHAT ARE THE DIFF EVENTS RECORDED IN EVENT VIEWER

316. WHAT DO YELLOW, BLUE AND RED COLORS REPRESENT IN EV

317. WHERE CAN WE FIND PORT NUMBERS

318. WHERE DOES DNS DATABASE GETS STORED

319. WHAT IS DRIVER SIGNING

320. WHAT IS AN MMC AND INTELLIMIRROR

321. WHAT IS TERMINAL SERVER

322. WHAT ARE ROOT HINT SERVERS

323. WHAT IS A BRIDGEHEAD SERVER

324. WHAT IS A RECOVERY AGENT

325. WHAT IS RECOVERY CONSOLE

326. WHAT IS A HARDWARE PROFILE

327. HOW TO SCHEDULE A BACKUP

328. HOW TO REDIRECT A PRINT JOB

329. HOW TO REDIRECT FOLDERS

330. HOW TO PUBLISH OBJECTS IN AD

331. JET-DIRECT PRINTERS USE___PROTOCOL

332. HOW TO CHANGE LOCATION OF THE SPOOL FOLDER

333. WHERE TO ENABLE IPSEC

334. HOW TO OPTIMIZE AD PERFORMANCE

335. WHAT IS A DEMAND-DIAL ROUTING

336. WHAT IS A REMOTE ACCESS POLICY

How To Set Up an FTP Server in Windows Server 2003

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Install Internet Information Services and the FTP Service
Because FTP depends on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), IIS and the FTP Service must be installed on the computer. To install IIS and the FTP Service, follow these steps.
NOTE: In Windows Server 2003, the FTP Service is not installed by default when you install IIS. If you already installed IIS on the computer, you must use the Add or Remove Programs tool in Control Panel to install the FTP Service.
Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
In the Components list, click Application Server, click Internet Information Services (IIS)
(but do not select or clear the check box), and then click Details.
Click to select the following check boxes (if they are not already selected):
Common FilesFile Transfer Protocol (FTP) ServiceInternet Information Services Manager
Click to select the check boxes next to any other IIS-related service or subcomponent that you want to install, and then click OK.
Click Next.
When you are prompted, insert the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM into the computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive or provide a path to the location of the files, and then click OK.
Click Finish.
IIS and the FTP service are now installed. You must configure the FTP Service before you can use it.

Configure The FTP Service
To configure the FTP Service to allow only anonymous connections, follow these steps:
Start Internet Information Services Manager or open the IIS snap-in.
Expand Server_name, where Server_name is the name of the server.
Expand FTP Sites
Right-click Default FTP Site, and then click Properties.
Click the Security Accounts tab.
Click to select the Allow Anonymous Connections check box (if it is not already selected), and then click to select the Allow only anonymous connections check box. When you click to select the Allow only anonymous connections check box, you configure the FTP Service to allow only anonymous connections. Users cannot log on by using user names and passwords.
Click the Home Directory tab.
Click to select the Read and Log visits check boxes (if they are not already selected), and then click to clear the Write check box (if it is not already cleared).
Click OK.
Quit Internet Information Services Manager or close the IIS snap-in.The FTP server is now configured to accept incoming FTP requests. Copy or move the files that you want to make available to the FTP publishing folder for access. The default folder is drive:\Inetpub\Ftproot, where drive is the drive on which IIS is installed.

Configure a default Web site
When you install IIS, it is preconfigured to serve as a default Web site; however, you may want to change some of the settings. To change the basic settings for the Web site and to emulate the steps that are required to set up Apache for the first time by using the configuration file:
1. Log on to the Web server computer as an administrator.
2. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
3. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Internet Services Manager.
4. Right-click the Web site that you want to configure in the left pane, and then click Properties.
5. Click the Web site tab.
6. Type a description for the Web site in the Description box.
7. Type the Internet Protocol (IP) address to use for the Web site or leave the All (Unassigned) default setting.
8. Modify the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) port as appropriate.
9. Click the Home Directory tab.
10. To use a folder on the local computer, click A directory on this computer, and then click Browse to locate the folder that you want to use.
11. To use a folder that has been shared from another computer on the network, click A share located on another computer, and then either type the network path or click Browse to select the shared folder.
12. Click Read to grant read access to the folder (required).
13. Click OK to accept the Web site properties.

Create a new Web site
To create a new Web site in Apache, you must set up a virtual host and configure the individual settings for the host. If you are using IIS, you can create a new Web site by translating the following terms to the IIS equivalents:
Collapse this tableExpand this table
Apache term IIS term
DocumentRoot IIS Web Site Home Directory
ServerName IIS Host Header
Listen IIS IP Address and TCP Port
IIS IP Address and TCP Port
To create a new Web site in IIS, follow these steps:
1. Log on to the Web server computer as an administrator.
2. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
3. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Internet Services Manager.
4. Click Action, point to New, and then click Web Site.
5. After the Web Site Creation Wizard starts, click Next.
6. Type a description for the Web site. This description is used internally to identify the Web site in Internet Services Manager only.
7. Select the IP address to use for the site. If you select All (unassigned), the Web site is accessible on all interfaces and all configured IP addresses.
8. Type the TCP port number to publish the site on.
9. Type the Host Header name (the real name that is used to access this site).
10. Click Next.
11. Either type the path to the folder that is holding the Web site documents or click Browse to select the folder, and then click Next.
12. Select the access permissions for the Web site, and then click Next.
13. Click Finish.

MCITP Course Contents

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Network Essentials
· Networking Concepts, History of Server OS
· Introduction to windows server 2003 & 2008
· Features of Windows Server 2008
· Installation of Windows Server 2008
· Installation of windows Vista
· Introduction and Creation of Users accounts
RODC & Physical Structure of AD-DS
· Introduction & Configuration of Read-Only Domain Controller
· SITES and Global Catalog
· Backup Strategies
· Replication between the Domain Controllers
· AD-DS Partitions
Active Directory - Domain Services
· IP Addressing
· Logical Topologies - Peer-Peer & Domain Models
· Introduction to Directory Services
· Evolution of Active Directory Services - LDAP Protocol
· Features of Active Directory
· Installing Active Directory – Domain Controller
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
· Introduction and Configuration of DHCP Server
· DHCP Client Configuration
· Reservations
· BOOTP Server
· DHCP Backup
Member Servers, Clients, User Configuration
· Configuring Member Servers and Clients.
· Creating Users in AD-DS
· User Logon policies
· Password policies
· Account Lockout policies
· User properties
Domain Name System (DNS)
· Internet Basics, Host & LM Host Files
· DNS Naming Hierarchy
· Lookup Zones - Forward and Reverse lookup Zones
· Types of Zones – Primary, Secondary & Stub Zone
· Resource Records, Integration with ADS, SRV Records
Terminal Services
· Terminal Server Configuration
· Terminal Server Licensing Mode
· Remote Desktop
· T.S Web access administration and T.S Remote Apps.
· Overview of T.S Gateway service
Internet Information Services
· IIS 7.0 Configuration
· Hosting Websites, Virtual Directories
· Backup & Restoring Sites
· FTP Server Configuration
User Profile
· Types of Profiles
· Local, Roaming and Mandatory Profiles
· Home Folder
· Disk Quotas
Permissions/Access Control Lists
· File Systems
· Security and Sharing Permissions - Folders & Files
· Offline Folder
Logical Structure of AD - DS
· Configuring ADC
· Tree Structure - Child Domain
· FOREST Structure
Routing & Remote Access
· Routing Configuration - Static Routes
· ICS, NAT, DHCP Relay Agent
· Remote Access Server Configuration
· Dial-in & Dial-out
· VPN - PPTP, L2TP
FSMO Roles of AD - DS
· Roles of AD - DS
· Transferring of Roles
· Seizing of Roles
Windows Deployment Services
· Introduction & Configuration of WDS Server
· Attended & Unattended Installation
Distributed File System, Backup & Recovery, Printers
· Introduction to DFS & File server
· Configuring Namespace, Folders etc
· Introduction to Backup & Backup media
· Types of Backups & Strategies
· Recovery of Data from any backup media
· Introduction to printers
· Types of printers & configuration
Disk Management
· Basic & Dynamic Disks
· Types of Volumes
· RAID 0, 1, 5 Levels
· Remote Hard disk Partitioning
· Mounting Concepts
Active Directory Trusts
· Introduction to Trust Relationship
· Categories, Directions & Types of Trusts
· Functional Levels
· Authentication Protocols
· Configuring Forest Trusts between 2008 Forests
Advanced Topics
· Windows Server Core
· Upgrading windows server 2003 to 2008
· Groups, VSS, Paging File
· System state backup & restoration
· Domain Renaming, Auditing policies
· Overview of AD- FS, LDS, RMS, CS
Group Policy / System Policy
· Organizational Unit, Delegation of Control
· User & Computer Policies
· Scope of Policies - OU, Domain, Sites
· Group policy modeling (RSOP)
· Software Deployment
· Scripts, Folder Redirection

MCITP Course Contents

2010-10-20T19:46:00.000-07:00

MCITP Course Contents

Advanced Terminal Services
T.S Web Access Administration, Remote Apps. Etc.,
Managing a Microsoft Windows 2008 Network Environment.
Configuring Read-Only Domain Controller
Designing Microsoft Windows 2008 Active DirectoryInfrastructure, Network Infrastructure,
Application Infrastructure.
Windows Server Core

WINDOWS AND UNIX INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

2009-08-27T00:30:00.000-07:00

· Recovery from Deadlock?
· Why window Xp is called wondow ?
· What is multi tasking, multi programming, multi threading?
· What is multi tasking, multi programming, multi threading?
· What is Throughput, Turnaround time, waiting time and Response time?
· Differentiate between RAM and ROM?
· Binding of Instructions and Data to Memory?
· Differentiate between Complier and Interpreter?
· What resources are used when a thread created? How do they differ from those when a process is created?
· Why paging is used?
· What is a Safe State and its? use in deadlock avoidance?
· Condition for deadlock occurrence?
· Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel?
· What is the relation between process system time, process waiting time , and process CPU time?
· Compare Linux credit based algorithm with other scheduling algorithms?
· What are different tasks of Lexical Analysis?
· Why thread is called as a lightweight process?
· What is the cause of thrashing? How does the system detect thrashing? Once it detects thrashing, what can the system do to eliminate this problem?
· Define Demand Paging, Page fault interrupt, and Trashing?
· Give a non-computer example of preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling.
· What are the major differences between windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems?
· What is starvation and aging?
· What is the difference between unix and windows?
· Deadlock Detection-Algorithm Usage?
· What is Dispatcher?
· Common Functions of Interrupts?
· What is the main component of operating system
· Describe different job scheduling in operating systems.
· What are Dynamic Loading, Dynamic Linking and Overlays?
· What is Context Switch?
· What is virtual memory?
· What is active directory?How it works? What is dns?How it works? What is dhcp?How it works? What is ias?How it works?
· On a system with paging, a process cannot access memory that it does not own; why? How could the operating system allow access to other memory? Why should it or should it not?
· Why are page sizes always powers of 2?
· What is the difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems?
· What are the basic functions of an operating system?
· If a system has 128 MB RAM and 1 GB hard Disk, and a process decides to use its fully allotted Virtual Memory 2^32 - 2GB = 2 GB, how is it practically possible?. But this works in all machines. How?
· Explain Segmentation with paging?
· Difference between Logical and Physical Address Space?
· Describe the actions taken by thread library to context switch between user level threads?
· Explain briefly about, processor, assembler, compiler, loader, linker and the functions executed by them.
· Explain the difference between microkernel and macro kernel?
· Difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?
· Describe different job scheduling in operating systems.
· Give an example of microkernel
· What is the difference between a process and a task?
· Give an example of microkernel
· What do you mean by deadlock?
· What is CPU Scheduler?
· While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?
· Distributed Systems?
· What is the state of the processor, when a process is waiting for some event to occur?
· What is DRAM? In which form does it store data?
· What are the main difference between Micro-Controller and Micro- Processor?
· What is cache memory?
· What are the difference phases of software development or software life cycle?
· What is hard disk and what is its purpose?
· What is the important aspect of a real-time system or Mission Critical Systems?
· What is a Real-Time System?
· I have deleted a file from recycle bin but i want to use that file how can i resore that file? I have already used system restore for the same but the file couldn't be restore?
· I am using Windows 2000 OS. At DOS prompt while I am issuing CD command to switch to an existing directory (eg. appserver) it is throwing error 'Invalid directory'. Would appreciate if anybody have an idea how to resolve it? I tried c:cd app~1 etc.
· What Location(on hard disk) for the default port numbers in NT based system?
· Which file extension is responsible for holding address book in outlook express?
· What is use of ntbootdd.sys file?
· Define task and TCB
· Difference between:- 1. TCP and RDP 2. DOMAIN and OU 3. DOMAIN CONTROLLER and GLOBAL CATALOG
· Why do multi-tasking operating systems in a single user machines today?
· What are Dump terminals in Unix?
· What is the difference between process and thread.
· What is a Real-Time System?
· What do you mean by deadlock?
· What is Dispatcher?
· Give a non-computer example of preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling.
· Is there any way I can see the data of a Unix HDD from the windows OS? I installed the HDD In my windows PC and I can see the disk from Diskmanager but I can not access the HDD content.
· Under what circumstances do page faults occur? Describe the actions taken by the operating system when a page fault occurs?
· What is fragmentation? Different types of fragmentation?
· what are the different Dynamic Storage-Allocation methods?
· What is Memory-Management Unit (MMU)?
· What are the Methods for Handling Deadlocks?
· Different types of Real-Time Scheduling?

What is NAT?

2009-03-13T07:50:00.000-07:00

Network Address Translation is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard used to allow multiple PCs or devices on a private network (using private address ranges such as 10.0.x.x, 192.168.x.x, 172.x.x.x) to share a single, globally routable IPv4 address. A main reason NAT is often deployed is because IPv4—the current generation of the Internet—addresses are getting scarce.
NAT is used in gateway devices that form the boundary between the public Internet and the private LAN. As IP packets from the private LAN traverse the gateway, NAT translates a private IP address and port number to a public IP address and port number, tracking those translations to keep individual sessions intact. Internet Connection Sharing in the Windows XP and Windows Me operating systems, along with many Internet gateway devices use NAT, particularly to connect to broadband networks such via DSL or cable modems. The use of NAT is increasing dramatically as more homes and small businesses network their PCs and share a connection to the Internet.

How to create a new Global Catalog Server

2009-02-27T22:36:00.000-08:00

How to create a new global catalog on the destination global catalog server
To create a new global catalog:
1. On the domain controller where you want the new global catalog, start the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in. To start the snap-in, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Sites and Services.
2. In the console tree, double-click Sites, and then double-click sitename.
3. Double-click Servers, click your domain controller, right-click NTDS Settings, and then click Properties.
4. On the General tab, click to select the Global catalog check box to assign the role of global catalog to this server.
5. Restart the domain controller.

Veritas Backup Exec 10 CBT

2009-02-26T11:59:00.001-08:00

The Veritas Backup Exec 10.x for Windows Servers course provides students with comprehensive instruction to install and configure Backup Exec 10.x. Students will create policies, run backup jobs, and create and run restore jobs. In addition, tape configuration and media rotation methods will be covered,as will troubleshooting of Backup Exec.Who Can BenefitSystem administrators, system engineers, technical support personnel, consultants, network administrators, backup administrators, backup operators, and othes who will be responsible for installing, configuring and administering Backup Exec 10.x for Windows Servers.PrerequisitesAttendees should be familiar with the administration and configuration of the Widows 2000 and Windows 2003 platforms, and should have experience configuring server software and hardware. Attendees should have knowledge of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 system administration, including domain security. Active Directory is recommended.Skills GainedUpon completion of this course, students should be able to:* Define the architecture and concepts of Backup Exec* Install and configure Backup Exec* Manage devices and media* Configure job policies and templates* Complete a backup* Complete a restore* Design a Backup Exec environment to fit your company's needsRelated CoursesBefore:* VERITAS NetBackup 5.x for UNIX Administration (VT-266)Course ContentModule 1 - Course Introduction* Backup Exec Administration* VERITAS' Education and Support Resources* The Backup Exec EnvironmentModule 2 - Product Overview* What is Backup Exec?* What's New in Backup Exec 10?* Backup Exec Agents* Backup Exec OptionsModule 3 - Backup Exec Architecture and Concepts* Backup Exec Architecture* Backup Exec Terminology* Backup Exec ConceptsModule 4 - Installing and Configuring Backup Exec* Preinstallation Considerations* Installing Backup Exec* Configuring Backup Exec* Installing Agents and Options* Uninstalling and Upgrading Backup Exec* Troubleshooting Installation IssuesModule 5 - Planning a Backup Strategy* Backup Terms and Concepts Review* Backup Strategy ConcernsModule 6 - Managing Devices* Configuring Devices* Creating Device Pools* Configuring Device Properties* Updating Device DriversModule 7 - Managing Media* Media Terms and Concepts* Selecting Data for Overwrite Operations* Configuring Media Sets* Media Operations* Troubleshooting Media IssuesModule 8 - Creating Backup Jobs* Minimum Requirements for Backup Jobs* General Backup Job Settings* Creating Selection Lists* Device and Media Properties* Scheduling Jobs* Test Run JobsDownload: 137.09 MB / 50.5 MBCODEhttp://rapidshare.com/files/51541244/VERITAS10_-_Video_Training.part1.rarhttp://rapidshare.com/files/51544227/VERITAS10_-_Video_Training.part2.rarhttp://rapidshare.com/files/51545924/VERITAS10_-_Video_Training.part3.rar

Networking

2008-12-11T05:52:00.001-08:00

What is a NIC?
What is a MAC Address?
When would you use a crosslink cable?
What are the main advantages and disadvantages of Fiber-Optic-based networks?
What is the difference between a Hub and a Switch?
On which OSI layer can a router be found?
What is CSMA/CD?
What is multicast?
What is Broadcast?
What is the difference between TCP and UDP?
Describe some of the settings that are added by TCP and by UDP to the packet's header.
What are TCP Ports? Name a few.
What is a TCP Session?
What three elements make up a socket?
What will happen if you leave the default gateway information empty while manually configuring TCP/IP?
What will happen if you execute the following command: "arp –d *"?
What is ICMP?
When would you use the ping command with the "-t" switch?
What command-line tool would help you discover for which port numbers your computer is listening?
What is APIPA? How would you recognize it?
What is a Cyclic Redundancy Check?
What would you type in at a command prompt to view the IP settings for the computer that you are sitting at?
What command would you type in at a command prompt to view the IP address of the remote computer?
What is the W Value for class B?
What is the Net ID of an IP Address of 18.9.25.3 with Subnet Mask of 255.0.0.0?
What is CIDR?
What is 255.255.255.255 used for?
What is the maximum number of hosts for a Class B Network?
What is the (default) class type of 195.152.12.1?
What is the subnet mask for 10.0.10.1/17?
What is the result when changing from a subnet mask of 255.255.224.0 to a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0?
How can you access a shared folder from a remote computer? Name at least 3 methods.

Microsoft-based Operating Systems

2008-12-11T05:51:00.002-08:00

What is the difference between a workgroup and a domain?
What are the major advantages of working in a domain model?
What types of operating system installation methods do you know?
What is an answer file?
How would you create an answer file for Windows XP? How would you create one for Windows Vista?
How do you perform an unattended installation on Windows XP?
What is Sysprep?
The System Preparation tool (Sysprep) is a technology that you can use with other deployment tools to install Microsoft Windows operating systems with minimal intervention by an administrator or technician. Sysprep is typically used during large-scale rollouts when it would be too slow and costly to have administrators or technicians interactively install the operating system on individual computers.
How do you use Sysprep?
What is the major difference between Newsid and Sysprep?
What is the function of the pagefile.sys file?
What is the function of the hiberfil.sys file?
Ques: What is the Registry?
Ans: The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform: the kernel, device drivers, services, SAM, user interface and third party applications all make use of the Registry. The registry also provides a means to access counters for profiling system performance.

How can you edit the Registry? Name at least 3 ways of doing that.
What should you do if you receive a message stating: "The following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM"?
How would you repair an unsuccessful driver update?
When should you use each of the fallowing tools: System Restore, LKGC and Recovery Console?
How do you set different print priority for different users?
How can you reset user's passwords if you don't know his current password?
What's the difference between changing a user's password and resetting it?
You want to grant a user the right to perform backups – should you add him to the administrators group?
Ques: What is MMC?
Ans: Microsoft Management Console. In Microsoft's own words, "Microsoft Management Console (MMC) hosts administrative tools that you can use to administer networks, computers, services, and other system components." That's all well and good, but what does it mean in real life? Basically, it means that you can create a customized set of tools and group them in a 'console' that is easily accessible without having to search through different locations to find one particular setting or group of settings.

Ques: What is gpedit.msc?
Ans: Group Policy is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems. Group Policy is a set of rules which control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides the centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications and users' settings in an Active Directory environment.

How would you use the MMC to manage other servers on your network?
You set a local policy for your Stand-alone XP Professional – would the local policy effects the administrators group?
What new in the Windows Vista Local Policy?
What is the difference between User Privileges and User Permissions?
What is Safe Mode?
Which logs can be found in Event Viewer?
What is msconfig? On which OS can it be found?
Can you upgrade XP Home Edition to Server 2003?
Which permission will you grant a user for a folder he need to be able to create and delete files in, if you do not want him to be able to change permissions for the folder?
What is the difference between clearing the "allow" permission and checking the "deny"?

PC Hardware

2008-12-11T05:51:00.001-08:00

What is FSB?
What are Vcore and Vi/o?
On what type of socket can you install a Pentium 4 CPU?
What is SMP?
Which Intel and AMD processors support SMP?
How do LGA sockets differ from PGA and SEC?
What is the difference between Pentium 4 and Pentium Core 2 Duo? Explain the new technology.
How does IRQ priority works?
What technology enables you to upgrade your computer's BIOS by simply using a software?
What happens if you dissemble the battery located on the Mother-Board?
How do L1, L2, and L3 work?
How should we install RAM on a Dual-Channel Motherboard?
What is the advantage of serial over parallel bus?
Is USB using serial or parallel bus? What about Firewire?
How much power is supplied to each USB port?
When should you change your bus-powered USB hub to a self-powered USB hub?
What is a UPS?
What is the difference between standby and online UPS?
What is LBA (in Hard-Disks)?
How many Hard Disks can you install on an E-IDE controller?
Can you configure two hard disks to use the Master setting on the same PC?
What is the difference between Narrow-SCSI and Wide-SCSI?
What is SAS?
What are the three main reasons for using RAID?
Is RAID 0 considered to be a redundant Solution? Why?
How many disks can be used for RAID 1?
How RAID 5 works?
What is the smallest number of disks required for RAID5?
What other types of RAID do you know?
What are the six steps for laser printing?
What is the difference between PCI-EX x1 and PCI-EX x16?

Technical Interview Questions – Exchange 2003

2008-12-11T05:50:00.001-08:00

1. Tell me a bit about the capabilities of Exchange Server.
2. What are the different Exchange 2003 versions?
3. What's the main differences between Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000/2003?
4. What are the major network infrastructure for installing Exchange 2003?
5. What is the latest Exchange 2003 Service Pack? Name a few changes in functionality in that SP.
6. What are the disk considerations when installing Exchange (RAID types, locations and so on).
7. You got a new HP DL380 (2U) server, dual Xeon, 4GB of RAM, 7 SAS disks, 64-bit. What do you do next to install Exchange 2003? (you have AD in place)
8. Why not install Exchange on the same machine as a DC?
9. Are there any other installation considerations?
10. How would you prepare the AD Schema in advance before installing Exchange?
11. What type or permissions do you need in order to install the first Exchange server in a forest? In a domain?
12. How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated?
13. What type of memory optimization changes could you do for Exchange 2003?
14. How would you check your Exchange configuration settings to see if they're right?
15. What are the Exchange management tools? How and where can you install them?
16. What types of permissions are configurable for Exchange?
17. How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes on a specific server?
18. What is the Send As permission?
19. What other management tools are used to manage and control Exchange 2003? Name the tools you'd use.
20. What are Exchange Recipient types? Name 5.
21. You created a mailbox for a user, yet the mailbox does not appear in ESM. Why?
22. You wanted to change mailbox access permissions for a mailbox, yet you see the SELF permission alone on the permissions list. Why?
23. What are Query Based Distribution groups?
24. What type of groups would you use when configuring distribution groups in a multiple domain forest?
25. Name a few configuration options for Exchange recipients.
26. What's the difference between Exchange 2003 Std. and Ent. editions when related to storage options and size?
27. Name a few configuration options related to mailbox stores.
28. What are System Public Folders? Where would you find them?
29. How would you plan and configure Public Folder redundancy?
30. How can you immediately stop PF replication?
31. How can you prevent PF referral across slow WAN links?
32. What types of PF management tools might you use?
33. What are the differences between administrative permissions and client permissions in PF?
34. How can you configure PF replication from the command prompt in Exchange 2003?
35. What are the message hygiene options you can use natively in Exchange 2003?
36. What are the configuration options in IMF?
37. What are virtual servers? When would you use more than one?
38. Name some of the SMTP Virtual Server configuration options.
39. What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay software or hardware options.
40. What is a Smart Host? Where would you configure it?
41. What are Routing Groups? When would you use them?
42. What are the types of Connectors you can use in Exchange?
43. What is the cost option in Exchange connectors?
44. What is the Link State Table? How would you view it?
45. How would you configure mail transfer security between 2 routing groups?
46. What is the Routing Group Master? Who holds that role?
47. Explain the configuration steps required to allow Exchange 2003 to send and receive email from the Internet (consider a one-site multiple server scenario).
48. What is DS2MB?
49. What is Forms Based Authentication?
50. How would you configure OWA's settings on an Exchange server?
51. What is DSACCESS?
52. What are Recipient Policies?
53. How would you work with multiple recipient policies?
54. What is the "issue" with trying to remove email addresses added by recipient policies? How would you fix that?
55. What is the RUS?
56. When would you need to manually create additional RUS?
57. What are Address Lists?
58. How would you modify the filter properties of one of the default address lists?
59. How can you create multiple GALs and allow the users to only see the one related to them?
60. What is a Front End server? In what scenarios would you use one?
61. What type of authentication is used on the front end servers?
62. When would you use NLB?
63. How would you achieve incoming mail redundancy?
64. What are the 4 types of Exchange backups?
65. What is the Dial-Tone server scenario?
66. When would you use offline backup?
67. How do you re-install Exchange on a server that has crashed but with AD intact?
68. What is the dumpster?
69. What are the e00xxxxx.log files?
70. What is the e00.chk file?
71. What is circular logging? When would you use it?
72. What's the difference between online and offline defrag?
73. How would you know if it is time to perform an offline defrag of your Exchange stores?
74. How would you plan for, and perform the offline defrag?
75. What is the eseutil command?
76. What is the isinteg command?
77. How would you monitor Exchange's services and performance? Name 2 or 3 options.
78. Name all the client connection options in Exchange 2003.
79. What is Direct Push? What are the requirements to run it?
80. How would you remote wipe a PPC?
81. What are the issues with connecting Outlook from a remote computer to your mailbox?
82. How would you solve those issues? Name 2 or 3 methods
83. What is RPC over HTTP? What are the requirements to run it?
84. What is Cached Mode in OL2003/2007?
85. What are the benefits and "issues" when using cached mode? How would you tackle those issues?
86. What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for S/MIME?
87. What are the IPSec usage scenarios for Exchange 2003?
88. How do you enable SSL on OWA?
89. What are the considerations for obtaining a digital certificate for SSL on Exchange?
90. Name a few 3rd-party CAs.
91. What do you need to consider when using a client-type AV software on an Exchange server?
92. What are the different clustering options in Exchange 2003? Which one would you choose and why.

Technical Interview Questions – Networking

2008-12-11T05:40:00.000-08:00

1.What is an IP address?
2.What is a subnet mask?
3.What is ARP?
4.What is ARP Cache Poisoning?
5.What is the ANDing process?
6.What is a default gateway? What happens if I don't have one?
7.Can a workstation computer be configured to browse the Internet and yet NOT have a default gateway?
8.What is a subnet?
9.What is APIPA?
10.What is an RFC? Name a few if possible (not necessarily the numbers, just the ideas behind them)
11.What is RFC 1918?
12.What is CIDR?
13.You have the following Network ID: 192.115.103.64/27. What is the IP range for your network?
14.You have the following Network ID: 131.112.0.0. You need at least 500 hosts per network. 15.How many networks can you create? What subnet mask will you use?
16.You need to view at network traffic. What will you use? Name a few tools
17.How do I know the path that a packet takes to the destination?
18.What does the ping 192.168.0.1 -l 1000 -n 100 command do?
19.What is DHCP? What are the benefits and drawbacks of using it?
20.Describe the steps taken by the client and DHCP server in order to obtain an IP address.
21.What is the DHCPNACK and when do I get one? Name 2 scenarios.
22.What ports are used by DHCP and the DHCP clients?
23.Describe the process of installing a DHCP server in an AD infrastructure.
24.What is DHCPINFORM?
25.Describe the integration between DHCP and DNS.
26.What options in DHCP do you regularly use for an MS network?
27.What are User Classes and Vendor Classes in DHCP?
28.How do I configure a client machine to use a specific User Class?
29.What is the BOOTP protocol used for, where might you find it in Windows network infrastructure?
30.DNS zones – describe the differences between the 4 types.
31.DNS record types – describe the most important ones.
32.Describe the process of working with an external domain name
33.Describe the importance of DNS to AD.
34.Describe a few methods of finding an MX record for a remote domain on the Internet.
35.What does "Disable Recursion" in DNS mean?
36.What could cause the Forwarders and Root Hints to be grayed out?
37.What is a "Single Label domain name" and what sort of issues can it cause?
38.What is the "in-addr.arpa" zone used for?
39.What are the requirements from DNS to support AD?
40.How do you manually create SRV records in DNS?
41.Name 3 benefits of using AD-integrated zones.
42.What are the benefits of using Windows 2003 DNS when using AD-integrated zones?
43.You installed a new AD domain and the new (and first) DC has not registered its SRV records in DNS. Name a few possible causes.
44.What are the benefits and scenarios of using Stub zones?
45.What are the benefits and scenarios of using Conditional Forwarding?
46.What are the differences between Windows Clustering, Network Load Balancing and Round Robin, and scenarios for each use?
47.How do I work with the Host name cache on a client computer?
48.How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?
49.What is the 224.0.1.24 address used for?
50.What is WINS and when do we use it?
51.Can you have a Microsoft-based network without any WINS server on it? What are the "considerations" regarding not using WINS?
52.Describe the differences between WINS push and pull replications.
53.What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record and simply deleting it?
54.Name the NetBIOS names you might expect from a Windows 2003 DC that is registered in WINS.
55.Describe the role of the routing table on a host and on a router.
56.What are routing protocols? Why do we need them? Name a few.
57.What are router interfaces? What types can they be?
58.In Windows 2003 routing, what are the interface filters?
59.What is NAT?
60.What is the real difference between NAT and PAT?
61.How do you configure NAT on Windows 2003?
62.How do you allow inbound traffic for specific hosts on Windows 2003 NAT?
63.What is VPN? What types of VPN does Windows 2000 and beyond work with natively?
64.What is IAS? In what scenarios do we use it?
65.What's the difference between Mixed mode and Native mode in AD when dealing with RRAS? 66.What is the "RAS and IAS" group in AD?
67.What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies?
68.What types or authentication can a Windows 2003 based RRAS work with?
69.How does SSL work?
70.How does IPSec work?
71.How do I deploy IPSec for a large number of computers?
72.What types of authentication can IPSec use?
73.What is PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) in IPSec?
74.How do I monitor IPSec?
75.Looking at IPSec-encrypted traffic with a sniffer. What packet types do I see?
76.What can you do with NETSH? How do I look at the open ports on my machine?

Technical Interview Questions – Active Directory :

2008-12-11T03:07:00.000-08:00

1. What is Active Directory?
Ans: Active Directory is a hierarchical collection of network resources that can contain users, computers, printers, and other Active Directories.

2. What is LDAP?
Ans: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDAP is an Internet standard protocol used by applications to access information in a directory.

3. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.

Ans:

4. Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?

5. What is the SYSVOL folder?

Ans: The SYSVOL folder stores the server's copy of the domain's public files. The contents such as group policy, users etc of the sysvol folder are replicated to all domain controllers in the domain. The sysvol folder must be located on an NTFS volume.

6. Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC

7. What are application partitions? When do I use them

8. How do you create a new application partition

9. How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?

10.What is the Global Catalog?

Ans: The global catalog is a distributed data repository that contains a searchable, partial representation of every object in every domain in a multidomain Active Directory forest. The global catalog is stored on domain controllers that have been designated as global catalog servers and is distributed through multimaster replication.

11.How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

12. Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?

13. Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?

14. What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?

15. What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?What are sites? What are they used for?

16. What's the difference between a site link's schedule and interval?

17. What is the KCC?

Ans: The Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) is a built-in process that runs on each domain controller and regenerates the replication topology for all directory partitions that are contained on that domain controller. The KCC runs at specified intervals of every 15 minutes by default and designates replication routes between domain controllers that are most favorable connections that are available at the time.

18. What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?

19. What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?

20. What can you do to promote a server to DC if you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?

21. How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? • Can I get user passwords from the AD database?

22. What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?Name some OU design considerations.

23. What is tombstone lifetime attribute?

24. What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?

25. What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD?

26. How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?

27. What are the DS* commands?

28. What's the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?

29. What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?

30. What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?

31. I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do?

32. What's the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one?Which one should you NOT seize? Why?

33. How do you configure a "stand-by operation master" for any of the roles?

34. How do you backup AD?

35. How do you restore AD?

Ans: Active Directory restore can be performed in several ways. Replication synchronizes the latest changes from every other replication partner. Once the replication is finished each partner has an updated version of Active Directory. There is another way to get these latest updates by Backup utility to restore replicated data from a backup copy. For this restore you don't need to configure again your domain controller or no need to install the operating system from scratch.

36. How do you change the DS Restore admin password?

Ans: If Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or later is installed on your computer, you can use the Setpwd.exe utility to change the SAM-based Administrator password.

To do this:

1. Log on to the computer as the administrator or a user who is a member of the Administrators group.

2. At a command prompt, change to the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder.

3. To change the local SAM-based Administrator password, type setpwd, and then press ENTER. To change the SAM-based Administrator password on a remote domain controller, type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER
setpwd /s:servername
where servername is the name of the remote domain controller.

4. When you are prompted to type the password for the Directory Service Restore Mode Administrator account, type the new password that you want to use.

37. Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago?

38. What are GPOs?

Ans: Group Policy gives you administrative control over users and computers in your network. By using Group Policy, you can define the state of a user's work environment once, and then rely on Windows Server 2003 to continually force the Group Policy settings that you apply across an entire organization or to specific groups of users and computers.

39. What is the order in which GPOs are applied?

40. Name a few benefits of using GPMC.

41. What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them?

42. What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them?

43. What can I do to prevent inheritance from above?

44. How can I override blocking of inheritance?

45. How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user?Name a few ways to do that.

46. A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accountsare in the right OU, and everyone else there gets the GPO. What will you look for?

47. Name a few differences in Vista GPOs

48. Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.

49. What are administrative templates?

Ans: Administrative templates are a key component of Group Policy on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. These templates are Unicode-formatted text files with the extension .adm and are used to create the Administrative Templates portion of the user interface for the Group Policy Object Editor

50. What's the difference between software publishing and assigning?

How To Configure Terminal Services for Remote Administration Mode in Windows 2000

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Installing Terminal Services
You can install Terminal Services in two modes: Application Server mode and Remote Administration mode. Application Server mode is used for thin-client environments in which users have lightweight PCs and run programs remotely on the server instead of locally. Application Server mode requires a license for each connected user.

Remote Administration mode allows two low-resource simultaneous connections that are ideally suited for remote administration. No additional licenses are necessary, and the limit cannot be increased. This document describes Remote Administration mode.

To Install Terminal Services
Insert the Windows 2000 Server CD-ROM into the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
If a dialog box appears automatically after you insert the CD-ROM, click Install Add-on Components. If no dialog box appears, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Add/Remove Programs, and then click Add/Remove Windows Components.
In the list of components, click to select the Terminal Services check box.
Click to clear the Terminal Services Licensing check box if it is selected. You do not need this service for Remote Administration mode. Click Next.
Click Remote Administration Mode, and then click Next.
The Terminal Services Wizard runs and installs Terminal Services. Close the wizard when it is finished, and then reboot your computer if you are prompted to do so.

How To Install and Configure DNS Server in Windows Server 2003

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Install DNS
Open Windows Components Wizard. To do so, use the following steps:
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
In Components, select the Networking Services check box, and then click Details.
InSubcomponents of Networking Services, select the Domain Name System (DNS) check box, click OK, and then click Next.
If you are prompted, in Copy files from, type the full path of the distribution files, and then click OK.

Configure DNS
Start the Configure Your Server Wizard. To do so, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Configure Your Server Wizard.
On the Server Role page, click DNS server, and then click Next.
On the Summary of Selections page, view and confirm the options that you have selected. The following items should appear on this page:
Install DNS
Run the Configure a DNS Wizard to configure DNS
If the Summary of Selections page lists these two items, click Next. If the Summary of Selections page does not list these two items, click Back to return to the Server Role page, click DNS, and then click Next.
When the Configure Your Server Wizard installs the DNS service, it first determines whether the IP address for this server is static or is configured automatically. If your server is currently configured to obtain its IP address automatically, the Configuring Components page of the Windows Components Wizard prompts you to configure this server with a static IP address. To do so:
In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
In the Internet Protocols (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Use the following IP address, and then type the static IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for this server.
In Preferred DNS, type the IP address of this server.
In Alternate DNS, type the IP address of another internal DNS server, or leave this box blank.
When you finish setting up the static addresses for your DNS, click OK, and then click Close.
After you click Close, the Configure a DNS Server Wizard starts. In the wizard, follow these steps:
On the Select Configuration Action page, select the Create a forward lookup zone check box, and then click Next.
To specify that this DNS hosts a DNS zone that contains DNS resource records for your network resources, on the Primary Server Location page, click This server maintains the zone, and then click Next.
On the Zone Name page, in Zone name, specify the name of the DNS zone for your network, and then click Next. The name of the zone is the same as the name of the DNS domain for your small organization or branch office.
On the Dynamic Update page, click Allow both nonsecure and secure dynamic updates, and then click Next. This makes sure that the DNS resource records for the resources in your network update automatically.
On the Forwarders page, click Yes, it should forward queries to DNS servers with the following IP addresses, and then click Next. When you select this configuration, you forward all DNS queries for DNS names outside your network to a DNS at either your ISP or central office. Type one or more IP addresses that either your ISP or central office DNS servers use.
On the Completing the Configure a DNS Wizard page of the Configure a DNS Wizard, you can click Back to change any of the settings. To apply your selections, click Finish.
After you finish the Configure a DNS Wizard, the Configure Your Server Wizard displays the This Server is Now a DNS Server page. To review all the changes that you made to your server in the Configure Your Server Wizard or to make sure that a new role was installed successfully, click Configure Your Server log. The Configure Your Server Wizard log is located at %systemroot%\Debug\Configure Your Server.log. To close the Configure Your Server Wizard, click Finish.

Setting up a DHCP server in Windows 2000

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Installing the DHCP Service
You can install DHCP either during or after the initial installation of Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, although there must be a working DNS in the environment. To validate your DNS server, click Start, click Run, type cmd, press ENTER, type ping friendly name of an existing DNS server in your environment, and then press ENTER. An unsuccessful reply generates an "Unknown Host My DNS server name" message.

To install the DHCP Service on an existing Windows 2000 Server:
Click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Add/Remove Programs, and then click Add/Remove Windows Components.
In the Windows Component Wizard, click Networking Services in the Components box, and then click Details.
Click to select the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) check box if it is not already selected, and then click OK.
In the Windows Components Wizard, click Next to start Windows 2000 Setup. Insert the Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted to do so. Setup copies the DHCP server and tool files to your computer.
When Setup is complete, click Finish.

Configuring the DHCP Service
After you install and start the DHCP service, you must create a scope (a range of valid IP addresses that are available for lease to the DHCP clients). Each DHCP server in your environment should have at least one scope that does not overlap with any other DHCP server scope in your environment. In Windows 2000, DHCP servers within an Active Directory domain environment must be authorized to prevent rogue DHCP servers from coming online and authorizing a DHCP Server.

When you install and configure the DHCP service on a domain controller, the server is typically authorized the first time that you add the server to the DHCP console. However, when you install and configure the DHCP service on a member server, you need to authorize the DHCP server.

Note A stand-alone DHCP server cannot be authorized against an existing Windows Active Directory.

To authorize a DHCP server:
Click Start, click Programs, click Administrative Tools, and then click DHCP.

Note You must be logged on to the server with an account that is a member of the Enterprise Administrators group.
In the console tree of the DHCP snap-in, select the new DHCP server. If there is a red arrow in the bottom-right corner of the server object, the server has not yet been authorized.
Right-click the server, and then click Authorize.
After a few moments, right-click the server again and then click Refresh. The server should display a green arrow in the bottom-right corner to indicate that the server has been authorized.
To create a new scope:
Click Start, click Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DHCP.

Note In the console tree, select the DHCP server on which you want to create the new DHCP scope.
Right-click the server, and then click New Scope. In the New Scope Wizard, click Next, and then type a name and description for the scope. This can be any name that you choose, but it should be descriptive enough to identify the purpose of the scope on your network. For example, you might use Administration Building Client Addresses.
Type the range of addresses that can be leased as part of this scope, for example, a starting IP address of 192.168.100.1 to an ending address of 192.168.100.100. Because these addresses are given to clients, they should all be valid addresses for your network and not currently in use. If you want to use a different subnet mask, type the new subnet mask. Click Next.
Type any IP addresses that you want to exclude from the range you entered. This includes any addresses that may have already been statically assigned to various computers in your organization. Click Next.
Type the number of days, hours, and minutes before an IP address lease from this scope expires. This determines the length of time that a client can hold a leased address without renewing it. Click Next to select Yes, I want to configure these options now, and then extend the wizard to include settings for the most common DHCP options. Click Next.
Type the IP address for the default gateway that should be used by clients that obtain an IP address from this scope. Click Add to place the default gateway address into the list, and then click Next.

Note When DNS servers already exist on your network, type your organization's domain name in Parent domain. Type the name of your DNS server, and then click Resolve to ensure that your DHCP server can contact the DNS server and determine its address. Then click Add to include that server in the list of DNS servers that are assigned to the DHCP clients. Click Next.
Click Yes, I want to activate this scope now, to activate the scope and allow clients to obtain leases from it, and then click Next. Click Finish.

FSMO ROLES IN WIN 2003

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1. Schema master - Forest-wide and one per forest.

2. Domain naming master - Forest-wide and one per forest.

3. RID master - Domain-specific and one for each domain.

4. PDC - PDC Emulator is domain-specific and one for each domain.

5. Infrastructure master - Domain-specific and one for each domain.