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Another important consideration when setting up site links is the protocol that the site link will use. Active Directory supports site links via RPC (referred to as IP in the interface) as well as SMTP. Within a site, domain controllers use RPC. You should note that you would most often use RPC, since SMTP does […]

by Dan DiNicolo http://www.2000trainers.com Welcome to article number 18 in my 70-240 in 15 minutes a week series. This week’s article covers Kerberos, as well as Active Directory replication. This includes a look at how Kerberos functions in a single and multiple domain environments, and how replication occurs both within and between sites. Next week’s […]

Deploying Software via Group Policy   Since the basics of this topic were looked at in previous articles, so my intention is to look at some of the more advanced options here. For the purpose of review, the basics of group policy are outlined below.   In an AD environment, group policy allows us to […]

by Marcin Policht For system administrators, Active Directory Services Interface provides a way to access and manipulate various directory services (such as NT SAM, Netware Bindery and NDS, IIS metabase, Exchange Directory Services database, and Windows 2000 Active Directory or other third party LDAP-based directory stores). ADSI is a very powerful tool that hides the […]

by Dana Daugherty One corrupt discovery data record (DDR) can completely lock up a primary site server. In this article I’ll attempt to help you troubleshoot typical primary site server DDR processing problems. I’m also going to document a not so typical problem that I had in my SMS implementation.  Discovery Data Overview One corrupt discovery […]

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Publishing Resources in Active Directory One of the benefits of Active Directory is that it is useful for more than just user authentication. As a store of information, Active Directory can be queried to find details about objects that we know about (such as a users telephone number), as well as to find objects that […]

“A couple of weeks ago, Zend finally released their long awaited product line, including much needed products, such as a stable, quality Cache as well as an encoder that allows you to encrypt and distribute your code. But are these products all that they’re hyped to be? Are they worth their price tags? Over the […]

The mailtool program is installed setgid mail by default in Solaris, a buffer overrun exists in the OPENWINHOME environment variable. By specifying a long environment buffer containing machine executable code, it is possible to execute arbitrary command(s) as gid mail. Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 11:46:13 +0200 (CEST) From: dethy Subject: [synnergy] – Solaris mailtool(1) […]

The folks at Sun write: Here’s the skinny on how to get your copy. Now’s your chance to try out an early preview release of “Exploring the GNOME 1.4 Desktop for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment.” Use it to take the GNOME 1.4 desktop for a test drive today, and discover the advanced features and […]

[ Thanks to Brandy for this link. ] The folks at Sun report new features at the Solaris Driver Development Site. Sun has recently updated the Solaris Driver Development Web site with new sample driver sources and developer tools. Recent updates include new sample source code, a kernel source level debugger, and a Solaris software […]

by Marcin Policht With the advent of Active Directory, the role of DNS in a Windows environment has drastically changed. DNS is no longer a manually configured database, providing optional (to WINS) name resolution method for various types of TCP/IP hosts. Instead, it has become the primary source of dynamically updated information required for many […]