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- IntelliMirror: What it is and what it isn't
- Microsoft's IntelliMirror can make the job of managing users on Windows 2000 easier. However, IntelliMirror itself is complex and confusing. Read on to find out exactly what IntelliMirror is and what it can do for your organization.As a network administrator, you probably spend as much time administering users as you...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, User Settings Management, User Data Management, Richard Charrington, IntelliMirror, computer, Microsoft Windows 2000
- Technical articles 2001-12-10
- A guide to Active Directory: Planning your upgrade
- In the final installment of his four-part series on Active Directory, Richard Charrington leads you through the proper planning for your big upgrade.In the final part of this four-part series, I will be touching on some of the things you’ll need to consider when you approach the upgrade to Windows...
- Tags: Directory services, Operating systems, Richard Charrington, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, domain, Microsoft Windows 2000, BDC, subnet, network
- Technical articles 2000-11-16
- Configure IT Quick: Global Catalog features within Active Directory
- Describing the global catalog feature of Active DirectoryIn the second part of this four-part series, I will examine the Global Catalog, which enables users to find on the network anything to which they have been granted access. I will also describe how Active Directory is replicated across the servers on...
- Tags: Directory services, Richard Charrington, information technology, Global Catalog, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, server
- Technical articles 2000-11-06
- TechRepublic Tutorial: Learn the objects that make up Active Directory
- Find out what parts make up Active DirectoryIn part three of this four-part series, I’ll explain the differences among objects, object classes, and attributes. I will also cover Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP, on which the addressing scheme of Active Directory is based, and Active Directory Service Interface ADSI, which...
- Tags: Directory services, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Richard Charrington, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, object class
- Technical articles 2000-11-13
- TechRepublic Tutorial: How DNS and Active Directory work together
- Discover how DNS works with Active DirectoryOne of the most important changes in the Windows architecture between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 is Active Directory and the use of DNS for name resolution. Active Directory extends the Windows 4.0 directory into a fully extensible, scalable directory service that can...
- Tags: Directory services, Domain names, NETWORKING, Microsoft Windows NT, Richard Charrington, Network Neighborhood, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, network, DNS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000
- Technical articles 2000-11-02
- Setting up DNS in Windows NT 4.0
- Richard Charrington gives a detailed explanation of how to use DNS with Windows NT 4.0 in this Daily Drill Down.With all the talk this year about Windows 2000, it could be easy to overlook Windows NT 4.0. That is, if you weren’t dealing with it on a daily basis. Windows...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Servers, Microsoft Windows, Richard Charrington, DNS, server, DNS server, DNS Manager, Microsoft DNS, Microsoft DNS Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows NT
- Technical articles 2000-10-11
- Troubleshooting DNS in Windows NT 4.0
- In this Daily Drill Down, Richard Charrington examines some aspects of DNS that will prove helpful when you're troubleshooting.In the Daily Drill Down “Setting up DNS in Windows NT 4.0,” I showed you how to set up DNS on your NT Server and talked a little about how resource records...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Servers, Richard Charrington, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, server, DNS, resource record, DNS server, Microsoft DNS Server, Microsoft DNS, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2000-10-13
- Understand the basics of Microsoft Management Console
- Learn the basics of the Microsoft Management Console MMC including the terminology, benefits, and user interfaceIf you cut your teeth on Windows NT 4.0 networks, you’re familiar with the myriad utilities that you run daily to do your job. None of them have a consistent look and feel, and little...
- Tags: Richard Charrington, Microsoft Corp., console, domain, management console, Microsoft Management, Microsoft Management Console
- Technical articles 2000-10-04
- Creating logon scripts with KiXtart, part 3
- In this third installment of our series of Daily Drill Downs on using KiXtart, Richard Charrington shows you how to write scripts that let you communicate with the user, map network drives, and other cool tricks.In part 1 of my series of Daily Drill Downs on...
- Tags: Construction, Richard Charrington, Kixtart, USE LIST, window
- Technical articles 2000-05-25
- Creating logon scripts with KiXtart, part 4
- In this final installment of his series of Daily Drill Downs on KiXtart, Richard Charrington examines the KiXtart commands and functions you use to manipulate strings.In part 1 of this series of Daily Drill Downs, I included background information on KiXtart, discussed common structures and commands, and provided several...
- Tags: Richard Charrington, Kixtart, SUBSTR, Ltrim
- Technical articles 2000-06-08
- Creating logon scripts with KiXtart, part 2: Basic elements
- In this second installment of our series of Daily Drill Downs on KiXtart, Richard Charrington examines loops, subroutine calls, and the GoTo statement.In part 1 of this series of Daily Drill Downs, I introduced KiXtart and examined a few constructs and commands available in the language. In part 2,...
- Tags: Shell Command, Richard Charrington, Kixtart
- Technical articles 2000-05-17
- Improve your scripting with AWK, part 3: Pre- and post-processing
- Richard Charrington concludes his three-part series on AWK, a very powerful scripting language utility. This time, Richard discusses pre- and post-processing and pattern matching. He also provides a few extended examples of how you can use AWK.In “Improve your scripting with AWK, part 1: An introduction to the pattern scanning...
- Tags: Richard Charrington, Microsoft Windows NT, AWK
- Technical articles 2000-05-05
- Get IT Done: Powerful scripting commands in the Windows NT Resource Kit
- Scripting commands available in Microsoft Windows NTIn “Scripting with the NT Resource Kit, part 3: Commands for local and remote services,” I discussed some commands that performed the same tasks as the commands that I described in “Scripting with the NT Resource Kit, part 1: The essentials” and “Scripting with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Get IT Done, Richard Charrington, domain, NETDOM, computer account, BDC, Microsoft Windows NT, server
- Technical articles 2000-05-12
- Scripting with the NT Resource Kit, part 3: Commands for local and remote servers
- Richard Charrington continues his series on useful commands from the NT Resource Kit. This time, he discusses more technical commands, such as Dumpel, Pulist, Reg, Sc, and Sclist—most of which will act on both local and remote servers.In “Scripting with the NT Resource Kit, part 1: The essentials” and “Scripting...
- Tags: Servers, Richard Charrington, server, Microsoft Windows NT, Dumpel, NT Resource Kit, Event.out, remote server, Pulist
- Technical articles 2000-05-08
- Get IT Done: Simple scripting commands in the Windows NT Resource Kit
- Scripting commands available in Microsoft Windows NTIn “Scripting with the NT Resource Kit, part 1: The essentials,” I introduced you to three simple commands (Choice, Now, and Shutdown) from the NT Resource Kit and to a utility that allows you to run a batch file when an NT computer starts...
- Tags: Richard Charrington, Get IT Done, Microsoft Windows, Tlist, CMD, Microsoft Windows NT
- Technical articles 2000-04-20
- Creating logon scripts with KiXtart, part 1: Background and common structures
- Although KiXtart is primarily used to create logon scripts, you can also use it as a general-purpose scripting tool for Windows administration. In part 1 of this series, Richard Charrington shows you how.KiXtart is a logon script processor and enhanced scripting language for computers running Windows NT or Windows 9x...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Servers, Richard Charrington, REM, Kixtart
- Technical articles 2000-04-27
- Improve your scripting with AWK, part 1: An introduction to the pattern scanning and processing utility
- AWK is a very powerful scripting language utility, but what does it do? In this first installment of a three-part series, Richard Charrington provides a general overview of AWK and a description of how to implement AWK under Microsoft Windows.You can use NT’s built-in scripting language to create some very...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Scripting languages, Microsoft Windows NT, Operating systems, Richard Charrington, AWK
- Technical articles 2000-05-01
- Improve your scripting with AWK, part 2: The language
- Richard Charrington continues his three-part series on AWK, a scripting language utility. This time, he discusses its language structure, its commands and statements, and the ways in which you can selectively process the input and format the output.In “Improve you scripting with AWK, part 1: An introduction to the pattern...
- Tags: C/C++, Richard Charrington, AWK, R-IN, substitution
- Technical articles 2000-05-03
- Scripting with the NT Resource Kit, part 1: The essentials
- If you're like Richard Charrington, you may wonder about the usefulness of the NT Resource Kit. However, as Richard explains in the first of a series of Daily Drill Downs, it offers many powerful commands. For an introduction to this tool, read on.I’ve always known about the NT Resource Kit....
- Tags: Errorlevel, Richard Charrington, NT Resource Kit, Microsoft Windows NT
- Technical articles 2000-04-13
- TechRepublic Tutorial: Scripting in Windows NT, part 4: Start, Title, and other statements
- The Start, Title, Pushd and Popd, Mkdir, Rdir, Time and Date, At, and Xcopy statementsIn "Scripting in Windows NT, part 1 ," I looked at special characters, subroutines, and the if statement. In part2 , I examined the for and replace statements. In part 3 , I explained...
- Tags: Construction, Richard Charrington, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows, Start Application, window
- Technical articles 2000-03-23
