Network administration Questions


Get information of Servers running on remote windows machine
Hi everyone, I want to get the information of servers like IIS, Windows Apache server..etc. which are running on remote windows machine. Further i want to know the .NET applications and web-services hosted on these servers. I knew, there are some WMI classes; But dont know exactly which will be helpfull.. Please let me know, [...]

Answer Question   |  April 4, 2009  7:11 AM
Network administration, Remote server administration, Remote server management
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5 pts.

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10 pts.

How to Create Custom application directory partition to replicate zone data in selected domain controllers in forest
I am trying to create a custom application directory partition to replicate zone data to specified domain controllers in a forest. For that I create a first domain name domain.net in a new forest using dcpromo on standalone computer name Server2003 . The default zone replication scope is To All Dns Servers in the Active [...]

Answer Question   |  March 26, 2009  9:07 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Forest, Application Directory Partition, DCPROMO, DNS, Domain Controller, Domain management, Network administration, Networking, Windows Server 2003
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10 pts.

how can i learn to be a network admin/engineer?
i am getting a degree in network security/telecommunications currently. is school going to teach me everything i know to do a job or it’s just going to give the skills to get it done but how do actually get experience in doing it which is what an employer wants. internships are hard to get as [...]

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2009  8:57 PM
Careers in networking, Information security careers, Information security spending, IT careers, Network administration, Network Administrator, Networking careers
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10 pts.

Disadvantages of installing ISA 2004 on DC
hi all what is the disadvantege installing ISA2004 on DC ? and we have a router d-link for small office , we are thinking to install isa2004 , I know that isa must have 2 NIC 1 external 1 internal , the problem I thinkin that currently the public ip address is on the router [...]

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  10:26 PM
Domain Controller, Firewalls, ISA 2004, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Network administration, Network security
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15 pts.

How to create subnets
creating a subnets

Answer Question   |  March 20, 2009  6:45 AM
IP address, Network administration, Subnets, Subnetting
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5 pts.

Network label and documentation
what is the best method to label network nodes and cables and patch panel and documentation???

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2011  1:59 PM
Cabling, Data Center cable labeling, Data center cabling, Network administration, Network best practices, Network documentation, Patch panels
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5 pts.

How can I stop a domain controller being a domain controller
I have 2 domain controllers and I would like to stop on of them acting as a DC as I think there are some conflicts. Is it possible to do this?

Answer Question   |  February 10, 2012  11:25 AM
Domain Controller, Network administration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration
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5 pts.

Move or delete a protected OU
The default option “Protect container from accidental deletion” was selected when I created an OU in the wrong place. So how can I move or delete the OU now? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

Answer Question   |  March 11, 2009  8:43 PM
Active Directory, Network administration, Organizational Unit, OU
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6,565 pts.

ISA 2004 server installation
Hi, I am planinig to install isa 2004 server in my DC.[win 2003 server ] But My DC is configured to single ehernet card. Should i install 2nd N/W card to boost ISA 2004 Performence or a Single Card will do. We are not planning for Hardware Firewall in near future. Thanks alot Badri

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2009  7:15 AM
Domain Controller, ISA 2004, ISA 2004 installation, Network administration, NIC, Server management, Windows Server 2003
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10 pts.

Group Policies
how can i turn on group policies after its been turned off by previous administrator, without having to re-install OS? ( it will not let me access any programs, system properties) will not save any changes made in safe mode.

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2009  2:45 AM
Group Policy, Network administration
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20 pts.

Admin Password
I am new to becoming the head of IT and i’m replacing an admin who supported 50 users for a law firm now that i’ve been accepted for the position i am walking in the dark without any knowledge of what operating system is on the server, or how to change the admin password or [...]

Answer Question   |  March 9, 2009  8:12 AM
Administrative privileges, Administrator password, it management, Network administration
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10 pts.

Remote Access Privileges
who has Remote Access privileges already configured?

Answer Question   |  March 2, 2009  12:00 PM
Network administration, Remote access, Remote Access Privileges, User Permissions
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5 pts.

User rights administration
How can i Assign diffrenet rights to different users. For example, My system have 2 types of users Internal and External. And i have to give View and Print rights to External users and Add,View,Update,Delete,View and Print rights to Internal users. I am using .net 2.0 and working with windows application.

Answer Question   |  March 4, 2009  4:31 AM
Network administration, User accounts, User Permissions, User rights
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45 pts.

Switch to Switch LAN cable configuration in Windows XP
Kindly explain how to do Switch to Switch LAN Cable Configuration in XP with work group.

Answer Question   |  February 24, 2009  10:39 AM
LAN, LAN configuration, Network administration, Network design, Switches, Window XP
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5 pts.

Configuring the DHCP server behind the router for 3 networks
Network 1 (192.168.50.0/24)—”Router”—”Switch or bridge”—”DHCP Server” Network 2 (172.16.0.0/24)______|| Network 3 (10.0.0.0/24)_________| how should i config DHCP server so every client’s IP in all 3 networks can be assign by DHCP?

Answer Question   |  February 18, 2009  7:51 AM
DHCP, DHCP server, DHCP Server Configuration, IP address, Network administration, Router configuration, Routers
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5 pts.

Load Balancing of Unequal Ethernet Bandwidth
Is it possible to aggregate and then load balance the unequal ethernet circuits like so: I have two ethenet circuits on my Cisco router. Both have equal costs to the next hop. Ethernet Circuit #1- 200M Ethernet Circuit #2 – 100M Can I aggregate both ethernet circuits so that the total amount of bandwidth available [...]

Answer Question   |  May 13, 2010  5:28 AM
Bandwidth, Bandwidth management, Cisco, Cisco router configuration, Ethernet, Load balancing, Network administration, Network Load Balancing, Router configuration, Routers
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5 pts.

Login Failure on Disconnected Domain Controllers
I have a WAN with 6 domain controllers connected to a center domain server with all the roles on this server.When ever there is a break on the WAN the domain controllers administrators report of not been able to login to the branch domain controllers server with there account or the domain adminstrative account. what [...]

Answer Question   |  February 17, 2009  2:30 PM
Domain Controller, Logon failure, Network administration, Network connectivity, WAN
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5 pts.

How can I identify all network system hostnames through CMD?
HI…THIS IS VARDHAN i have some doubts in network systems. one is SYSTEMS ALL ARE IN LAN, I KNOW ALL SYSTEMS IPADRESSES, FROM ONE SYSTEM HOW CAN I IDENTEFY THE ALL SYSTEMS HOSTNAMES THROW COMAND PROMPT?, IS IT POSSIBLE? HOW CAN I CHANGE ALL SYSTEMS HOSTENAMES THROW CMD?,

Answer Question   |  June 21, 2010  2:59 PM
Command line, Hostname, IP address, Network administration
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10 pts.

How to track who amended a particular file
Hi, Is it possible to have a way to trace who updated a particular file (word or excel etc) in windows 2003 ? Can auditing AD objects solve this ? Thanks and regards, Leo

Answer Question   |  February 18, 2009  9:31 AM
Active Directory, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Network administration, User monitoring, User tracking, Windows Server 2003
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20 pts.