Best Practices When Running WINS On Your Network
There are still many organizations that maintain the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) running on their network. This is generally because the WINS infrastructure has been in place since the …
TCP/IP Port Numbers
In computer networking, a port is a communications socket/endpoint in a computer’s operating system. A port is associated with an IP address of the host, as well as the type …
Enabling and Disabling Proxy Settings via Shortcut
Aside from configuring proxy settings which can be done in a number of ways, there is a common need to allow users, especially those with mobile laptops, to temporarily disable …
How to Enable TCP/IP Forwarding in Windows XP
Normally, when you want to configure a Windows System for Routing/IP Forwarding, you would configure the Routing and Remote Access Service on a Windows Server Edition. However, this service is …
Creating a Shortcut for Your Network Connections
You may have noticed if you are using either Windows 7 or Server 2008, that it takes a few extra steps to get to the properties of your Network Adapter(s). There is …
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Download
Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO files can be directly downloaded from the Microsoft website. If you are on a PC running Windows and want to install the consumer preview on …
How to Install RSAT on Windows Server 2008 R2
When managing your domain networking services, it is very common to install administrative tools on your domain member computers rather than interactively logging into the target system. For example, this …
Active Directory Trust Relationships
A trust relationship is a logical link established between two domains. Between the two domains, one domain is called the trusting domain while the other is called the trusted domain. …
Windows Server 2008 R2 System Requirements
Thinking about installing Windows 2008 R2 on your server? To use Windows Server 2008 R2, you will need to make sure your system meets the following minimum requirements: Processor Minimum: 1.4 …
Sending an Email Message Using VBScript
There may be instances where you need to automatically send a message from some type of application or program. Or, you may want to send yourself an alert when a …
WINS NetBIOS Unique and Group Names
Microsoft networking components and NetBIOS enabled applications on computers that are configured as WINS clients will attempt to register the first 15 characters of a NetBIOS name, and the 16th …
OSI: Layer 7 – Application
The application layer is the seventh layer (layer 7) of the seven-layer OSI model. The application layer is the OSI layer closest to the end-user. This layer interacts with software …