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Christopher Rice     The Resume Virus is out.  It’s the latest and greatest.  It is a Word Macro virus and will attach to all in your address book.  Does this sound familiar, well it is… The Resume Virus is out. It’s the latest and greatest. It is a Word Macro virus and will attach to […]

Christopher Rice     I was just taking a breeze through the knowledge base on Microsoft’s site when I came across a series of Web Casts that have been placed out there for your downloading and viewing pleasure. I was just taking a breeze through the knowledge base on Microsoft’s site when I came across a […]

Steve Schofield Step by Step instructions to schedule a stored procedure to run over and over! I was working on a project in ms sql 7 and needed to know how to get a stored procedure to be reoccurring. Click here to find out how Using ASP, SQL Server 6.5/7.0 & Stored Procedures–Adding records and […]

Thomas Shinder “It its not broken, don’t break it”. I repeat this to my students at every opportunity. As technology professionals, there’s a real drive to have the latest and greatest update and fix. The assumption is that if its new, its better, faster, richer, and smarter. Sometimes this is true, often its not. ‘It […]

Thomas Shinder Win2k includes a cool new tool called the Remote Installation Service or RIS. The service allows you to install Win2k Professional network clients throughout your network via a single image or set of images placed on the RIS Server. RIS even allows you to customize those images using the RIPrep program. Using RIPrep, […]

Thomas Shinder Last week we went over a question involving a heterogeneous network that included Windows and UNIX systems. The level of difficulty of the question matched somewhat closely what you should expect to see in the Microsoft exam 70-216. If you haven’t read the question yet, check it out HERE. Last week we went […]

Thomas Shinder The new Windows 2000 exams are quite a different animal from the connect the dots and recall the definitions type questions we saw in the Windows NT 4.0 exams. In the Windows 2000 version, you’ll be expected to take the knowledge you have about a particular technology and apply that knowledge in solving […]

Thomas Shinder In part one of this two part article, we discussed the function of WINS on a Microsoft network, and how NetBIOS applications are dependent on NetBIOS names as a logical endpoint for network communications. We also discussed the nature of the WINS database itself, and noted that it is a distributed database. The […]

Thomas Shinder This week we’ll continue our discussion on how to troubleshoot common problems with Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0. Last week we went over the basics of how the three Proxy Services worked, and some common problems in Troubleshooting the Server configuration. If you missed it, you can read that article by going HERE. This […]

Thomas Shinder One of the subjects that you must get acquainted with in order to excel in any network environment, and on your Windows 2000 MCSE exams, is that of proxy servers and firewalls. Microsoft has an exceptional proxy server in their product Proxy Server 2.0. Although this product is getting a little long in […]

Thomas Shinder One of the big differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 is the importance of the Domain Naming System (DNS) Server. In Windows NT 4.0, DNS was something you could do without, as WINS was able to take care of just about all of your name resolution needs. This isn’t the case […]

Thomas Shinder There seems to be an abundance of proxies and agents floating around the Windows 2000 scene. There’s the DHCP Relay Agent and the SNMP Agent. And there’s Proxy Server, DNS Proxy, and WINS Proxy. If you’ve found yourself getting a little mixed up, there’s a good reason why! Here’s well try to shed […]