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Articles & Tutorials for July, 2005

Windows Server 2003 Performance Tuning: Date - Jul 28, 2005; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows 2003; Computers running Windows operating systems always seem to have a way of slowing down over time. If your server seems to be running more slowly than it should, then you have a couple of choices. You can add some extra memory and maybe a processor or two and hope for the best, or you can figure out why the server is running so slowly. There are lots of different things that can cause a server to run slowly. In this article, I will explain how you can use some of Windows’ built in diagnostic tools to determine the cause of your server’s sub-par performance.
Understanding the TCP/IP Protocol (Part 2): Date - Jul 26, 2005; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Network Protocols; In part one of this article series we laid out the background information necessary to tackle this article’s information. Contained in this article is the actual breakdown of a packet’s contents, and what they mean. This type of low level TCP/IP information will enable you to make far better judgement calls when investigating network issues at the packet level.
Issues Involved In Converting Basic Disks To Dynamic Disks: Date - Jul 21, 2005; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows 2003; One of the Windows Server 2003 features that I’ve always found most useful is the ability to convert basic disks to dynamic disks. The advantage of doing this is that the Windows operating system allows you to span a single volume across multiple dynamic disks. By spanning a volume across multiple disks, you can create a larger volume than what a single disk can hold, you can achieve better performance than what a single disk would provide you with, and you can even achieve a degree of fault tolerance against hard disk failure. Even with all of these benefits, there are some serious issues that you need to be aware of before you even think about converting a basic disk into a dynamic disk. In this article, I will discuss these issues.
Internet Explorer is corrupted… how do I fix it?: Date - Jul 19, 2005; Author - Robert J. Shimonski; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; Very rarely do we ever get our systems beat up so badly that we have to perform surgery on them... sometimes, you feel like you need to reinstall the whole system, or sometimes you wish you didn’t have to – and could just repair it, as is, where it sits. Well, before you do anything rash, try this handy step by step article and script to re-register your Internet Explorer and hopefully ‘clean’ it of problems. Let’s see what two quick tips can do to spare you from possible disaster.
Understanding the TCP/IP Protocol (Part 1): Date - Jul 14, 2005; Author - Don Parker; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Network Protocols; The world of computer networking is built upon a series of protocols. These very same protocols are the worker bees that keep the packets flowing from one computer to another. Gaining an understanding of them greatly helps one to understand how computers talk to each other. This series of articles will attempt to convey that very knowledge.
Tuning Virtual PC Performance: Date - Jul 12, 2005; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; This article looks at how to enhance the performance of virtual machines running on Microsoft’s Virtual PC platform.
Making Your DNS Service Fault Tolerant: Date - Jul 07, 2005; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows 2003; Most network administrators know that Active Directory is dependant on DNS. What you might not realize is that there is a good chance that your DNS server is performing several other critical tasks in the background. A DNS failure can be more catastrophic than most people realize. In this article I will explain why this is the case and how to avoid such a situation.
Troubleshooting Basic TCP/IP Problems: Date - Jul 05, 2005; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Network Troubleshooting; Over the last several years, TCP/IP has gone from being the protocol that only geeks use, to a universal protocol that everyone uses, thanks to the widespread use of the Internet. TCP/IP has been around for decades and is a solid, reliable, mature protocol. Most of the time when there is a TCP/IP related problem, the problem is related to the way that one or more of the hosts on the network are configured. In this article, I will walk you through the process of troubleshooting some common TCP/IP issues.