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Welcome to the latest installment of “Learn Windows XP Professional in 15 Minutes a Week,” the 19th in this series. This article continues our look at the DNS service provided by Windows 2000 server and how it interacts in Windows XP Professional environments. Jason Zandri’s latest article in the ‘Learning Windows XP Professional in 15 […]

by Michael Bell Some of the most frequent questions posted to Microsoft public newsgroups are about setting up Outlook Web Access to use SSL for security. Michael Bell explains, step-by-step, how to do this in his latest ‘Learn Exchange 2000’ article. Some of the most frequent questions posted to both the 2000trainers.com newsgroup and the […]

by Joli Ballew Windows 2000 Server offers a utility called “Backup” that can be used for backing up and restoring data on local and remote systems.  Using this tool, you can successfully backup and restore files and folders, create snapshots of system state, schedule backups to perform automatically, create ERDs, and access media pools and […]

by Joli Ballew Windows 2000 Server offers a utility called “Backup” that can be used for backing up and restoring data on local and remote systems.  Using this tool, you can successfully backup and restore files and folders, create snapshots of system state, schedule backups to perform automatically, create ERDs, and access media pools and […]

Michael Niehaus Where do I start? Administering SMS often involves performing repetitive tasks via the SMS Administrator GUI. How many times have you wished there was an easier way? There is, using the interfaces to SMS that Microsoft has provided. Nearly anything you can do via the SMS Administrator can be done via a script. […]

Michael Niehaus An Overview Now that we’ve created the “better connection” script for connecting to SMS from VBScript, the next step is to convert this function to be used with other tools. In this article, we’ll cover three examples: Active Server Pages. This one will be very similar to the VBScript version, which makes sense […]

Sirgio Pereira The Request.QueryString Collection is very similar to the Request.Form Collection and its formal definition is almost identical too: The Request.QueryString Collection is very similar to the Request.Form Collection Request.QueryString( element)[(index)|.Count] When dealing with the Request object we are accessing information given or returned by the client. The QueryString access the data that follows […]

Sirgio Pereira The Request.Form syntax is very simple and short: The Request.Form syntax is very simple and short. Request.Form( element)[(index)|.Count] Now let’s see how this workers for your best interest. We’ll start with a very simple page that response to user input. — page8.asp — Request.Form Thanks ! Give me your name: — End of […]

Christopher Rice   And now onto the next article in the How To series, Disk Cleanup. And now onto the next article in the How To series, Disk Cleanup.  It is important to maintain the integrity of your hard disk, so here is a tool from Microsoft to help you do so. To access it, […]

Christopher Rice This has been the phantom service pack.  People have been waiting for it for months.  I had heard that it was out and then I heard that it wasn’t. This has been the phantom service pack. People have been waiting for it for months. I had heard that it was out and then […]

Christopher Rice           For those of you that have been around a while, you have no doubt seen one of these articles.  Basically, the way that these get created is you either mail me a question, or I happen to stumble across something cool in my day-to-day routine.  For those of you that have been […]

Christopher Rice           Think that your SQL servers are safe? Think that your SQL servers are safe? How many test servers do you have where the sa password is nothing? Probably a few, right? Well, they are vulnerable. I found this link from an e-mail that I got: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=690            How many test servers do […]