User profile is a folder that contains a collection of settings and options of a user account. The user account settings may include desktop, documents, downloads, music, pictures and environment settings like desktop background, screen saver…etc. This folder is very important in any computer or operating system because it consists of all the data related [...]
You should be familiar in configuring and managing local as well as domain user accounts to get job as system / network administrator. There may be slight variation from windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 to configure and manage user accounts. I will explain this using windows server 2003 domain controller and windows 2003 member server. [...]
Every person should have a user account to use the computer network on a regular bases. There are two types of user accounts. They are local user accounts and domain user accounts. Local user account enables user to log on to the local computer and to access local resources of that computer. Domain user accounts [...]
In Active Directory, objects are stored with tight security, these objects can be located easily by authorized users and highly secured for unauthorized users. Once object is published in the active directory, management of the object is very easy for an administrator. Some of the most common Active Directory administrative tasks are Locating objects in [...]
An organizational unit is a type of Active Directory object and it is called as OU in simple form. OU is just like a folder of a windows file system. Folder is used to store files and folders and OU is used to hold other OU’s and objects. The main purpose of OU is to [...]
After installation and testing of a DNS server, we can install Active directory smoothly without having any problems. We install active directory in a server computer to promote it’s role to a Domain controller. Domain controller controls every member which is configured to use it. We have add each computer in a domain to be [...]
We can do periodic monitoring and testing of DNS server and it’s clients to make sure that all components are functioning properly. We also can troubleshoot DNS events and operations from time to time. We use monitoring tab for testing and monitoring of DNS. We can get this tab by opening DNS server’s properties. We [...]
There are lot of areas, Microsoft is testing candidates through their certification programs. MCSA, MCSE, MCITP and MCTS are the certifications for the network administrators. We will become MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) as soon as we pass one of the following exam. All 4 exams on networking systems given below are compulsory for MCSE Exam 70-290: [...]
We have to configure client computers in a domain or workgroup environment to use DNS server. Then client can request and get the information about host names. The DNS server will responds to it’s clients with the information of Host name to IP address mappings. The DNS sever can serve this information to it’s clients [...]
DNS resource records will be created automatically when we install and configure DNS Server with it’s feature of dynamic update. DNS server dynamically updates many types of DNS resource records. You have to create some of the records manually when some types of computers don’t support dynamic update and some types of records can not [...]
