Bookmarks
Cisco
DNS
DNS Best Practices, Network Protections, and Attack Identification – Cisco Systems
PIX and ASA
Troubleshoot Connections through the PIX and ASA – Cisco Systems
IANA
DNS
Domain Name System (DNS) Parameters
Root Zone Database
Microsoft Articles & References
.NET
How To: Encrypt Configuration Sections in ASP.NET 2.0 Using DPAPI
How To: Protect From SQL Injection in ASP.NET
How To: Use Forms Authentication with Active Directory in ASP.NET 2.0
Active Directory
Active Directory Maximum Limits – Scalability
Domain Controller Locator
How to optimize Active Directory replication in a large network
Search Filter Syntax (Windows)
DHCP
DNS
GES Blog : DNS Slow to start?
Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team : Don't be afraid of DNS Scavenging. Just be patient.
Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard
DNSQueryTimeouts
DNS WMI Provider Reference
Exchange
Communications: Standby Continuous Replication in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
How to Allow Anonymous Relay on a Receive Connector
How to Seed a Standby Continuous Replication Target
Planning Memory Configurations
Planning Storage Configurations
Understanding Direct Push
White Paper: Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007
You Had Me At EHLO… : Address List and EAP filter upgrades with Exchange Server 2007
You Had Me At EHLO… : Advanced Exchange 2007 Transport Logs Troubleshooting using Log Parser – Part 1
You Had Me At EHLO… : Advanced Exchange 2007 Transport Logs Troubleshooting using Log Parser – Part 2
You Had Me At EHLO… : Resource scheduling in Exchange Server 2007
Group Policy
Add a trusted root certification authority to a Group Policy object: Security Configuration Editor
Licensing
Windows Server 2003 R2 Client Access Licensing Overview
Networking
How Computer Browser Service Works
How Interactive Logon Works: Logon and Authentication
How the Kerberos Version 5 Authentication Protocol Works: Logon and Authentication
PowerShell
Using Exchange Management Shell Commands With Managed Code
Windows PowerShell Programmer's Guide
Server 2008
Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server 2008 Step-By-Step Guide
Terminal Services
Terminal Services – ADSI Extension
MS KB Articles
Active Directory
How a slow link is detected for processing user profiles and Group Policy
How to decommission a Windows enterprise certification authority and how to remove all related objects from Windows Server 2003 and from Windows 2000 Server
How To Delegate the Unlock Account Right
How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion
How to remove orphaned domains from Active Directory
How to: Add UPN Suffixes to a Forest
Minimum permissions are needed for a delegated administrator to force password change at next logon procedure
Using the BurFlags registry key to reinitialize File Replication Service replica sets
You cannot view a user's universal group membership in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Users and Computers when universal groups do not reside in the local domain
Code
How To Use ADO to Access Objects Through an ADSI LDAP Provider
DHCP & WINS
How to move a DHCP database from a computer that is running Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003 to a computer that is running Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers
You cannot delegate DHCP administration or WINS administration on a per-server basis when the DHCP service and the WINS service run on domain controllers
How to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP by using DHCP server options
DNS
Deleting the ForestDnsZones or DomainDnsZones application partition is not supported
Error message when you run the "Adprep /rodcprep" command in Windows Server 2008: "Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Contoso,DC=com"
How to clear bad information in Active Directory-integrated DNS
How to enable or disable DNS updates in Windows 2000 and in Windows Server 2003
How to optimize the location of a domain controller or global catalog that resides outside of a client's site
Replacing root hints with the Cache.dns file
Subnet prioritization on a client computer truncates the record list that the DNS server returns
Windows Server 2008 DNS Servers may fail to resolve queries for some top-level domains
Best practices for DNS client settings in Windows 2000 Server and in Windows Server 2003
Naming conventions in Active Directory for computers, domains, sites, and OUs
Exchange
Exchange Server static port mappings
How to configure static communication ports in Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003
How to disable the "Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007" branding sentence in an Exchange Server 2007 DSN message
How to stop automatic conversion of universal distribution groups to universal security groups in Exchange 2000 and in Exchange 2003
Outlook (CW) meeting request going to someone else
Overview of operating system and Active Directory requirements for Exchange Server 2003
The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops unexpectedly when the Exchange Server 2007-based server replicates the Public folder
Troubleshooting mail transport and distribution groups in Exchange 2000 Server and in Exchange Server 2003
XFOR: Telnet to Port 25 to Test SMTP Communication
How to remove Exchange 2007 from a computer
IIS & .NET
How to implement impersonation in an ASP.NET application
How to switch between the 32-bit versions of ASP.NET 1.1 and the 64-bit version of ASP.NET 2.0 on a 64-bit version of Windows
You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or IIS 6
Networking
Connecting to SMB share on a Windows 2000-based computer or a Windows Server 2003-based computer may not work with an alias name
Description of the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
Error message when you try to access a server locally by using its FQDN or its CNAME alias after you install Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1: "Access denied" or "No network provider accepted the given network path"
How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP
Windows NT, Terminal Server, and Microsoft Exchange Services Use TCP/IP Ports
Printing
Security
Server 2003
How to change the Volume Licensing product key on a computer that is running Windows XP SP1 and later versions of Windows XP
How to use Diskpart.exe to extend a data volume in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, and in Windows 2000
XP
How to use the Sysprep tool to automate successful deployment of Windows XP
MS Security Alerts
DNS
MS08-037 – Vulnerabilities in DNS Could Allow Spoofing (953230)
RFCs
DNS
RFC 1034 – Domain Names – Concepts and Facilities
RFC 1035 – Domain Names – Implementation and Specification
RFC 2308 – Negative Caching of DNS Queries
RFC 2606 – Reserved Top Level DNS Names
RFC 2782 – DNS SRV
LDAP
RFC 2293 – Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory
SMTP
RFC 2821 – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
RFC 2822 – Internet Message Format
IPv6
RFC 4193 – Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
RFC 3513 – Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
VMWare
Host Power Management Causes Problems with Guest Timekeeping on Linux Hosts
Time Sync and Windows Time Service
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