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- Configure IT Quick: Configure dynamic shares with Windows 2000 Cluster Service
- Get more out of Windows 2000 clusteringIn Windows 2000 clustering, "dynamic shares" refers to the Cluster Service’s ability to automatically create shares beneath a parent directory. One of the best examples of how dynamic shares work is with user home directories, which also happens to be the most common use...
- Technical articles 2002-10-08
- Building Distributed File System clustering in Windows 2000
- An under-the-hood look at how both Microsoft clustering technologies workUsing the term “fault tolerance” to describe the Windows 2000 Cluster Service is a bit of a misnomer; it's more accurate to describe the Cluster Service's activities as “high availability.” And that high availability does not extend to the data stored...
- Technical articles 2002-10-10
- Reduce tech support calls by clustering printing services
- Although we live in a digital age, printing is as important as ever-- and it can definitely be a thorn in the side of an IT department. Ease your printing problems by using the Windows 2000 Cluster Server to cluster your network printing.Despite all the talk of the "paperless office,"...
- Technical articles 2002-10-15
- Windows 2000 Cluster Service can reduce maintenance downtime
- The Windows 2000 Cluster Service can be a valuable asset when updating and patching your software. Learn about this benefit, and see how you can evaluate the Cluster Sevice without purchasing special hardware.Microsoft’s Cluster Service gained momentum in Windows NT and was carried into Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter...
- Technical articles 2002-09-24
- Configure IT Quick: Configure the Windows 2000 Cluster Service
- Learn the right way to configure Windows 2000 clusteringAs I pointed out in my last article, the Windows 2000 Cluster Service has some lesser-known benefits that provide value to a Windows network. Now, I'll show you how to use the Cluster Service Configuration Wizard to get a basic cluster up...
- Technical articles 2002-09-26
- TechProGuild members split on deploying Windows 2000 clusters
- TechProGuild members are split on deploying Windows 2000 clusters. Half have no interest, while the other half have deployed or are looking to deploy clusters.
- Technical articles 2001-09-06
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- Get IT Done: Improve WINS and DHCP uptime with Windows 2000 clustering
- Windows networks rely heavily on services such as WINS and DHCP, as you've no doubt discovered if you've ever had one of these services go down. Administrators often don't devote enough energy to making sure critical services such as these have high availability measures in place. That's unfortunate, especially...
- Technical articles 2002-10-22
- Get IT Done: Configuring network load balancing in Windows 2000
- Get a big picture look at how to use load balancing to make your servers more efficient.In the Daily Drill Down “Understanding Windows 2000 network load balancing,� I showed you what network load balancing is and how it could benefit your network. But how do you make it work? In...
- Technical articles 2001-08-28
- Windows clustering: Microsoft Cluster Service or network load balancing?
- Microsoft Cluster Service MSCS and network load balancing NLB can both help you address your high availability needs. They can even work together in some solutions. Get the lowdown on each technology, and see how they can cooperate.The first of my recent articles on Windows clustering prompted a member to...
- Technical articles 2002-11-07
- Understanding Windows 2000 network load balancing
- As network traffic grows, you need a way to accommodate it. Eventually, even the fastest servers become overwhelmed. Jim Boyce shows you how to spread the load across multiple servers without affecting end users.Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server both provide network load balancing to allow you to build...
- Technical articles 2001-08-23
- Understanding clustering options for Windows 2000
- Learn the basics of clustering in Win2K including cluster services, component load balancing, and application center.Whether you are providing Web services to your company or customers, hosting critical applications and data, or needing a bulletproof e-mail infrastructure, load balancing and cluster services can be the key tools for providing reliability...
- Technical articles 2001-09-03
- Building a Windows 2003 Cluster
- Microsoft has overhauled Windows Clustering Services to meet the greater demand for high availability and scalability that has come with the increased spread of the 24/7 marketplace. I'm going to discuss some of the new features that the Windows Server 2003 Clustering Services have to offer, as well as some...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Configure IT Quick: Configure network load balancing in Windows 2000
- Make your Windows network more efficient with network load balancingThe network load balancing NLB feature in Windows 2000 allows you to make your servers work faster and more efficiently. With NLB, you can balance Web, FTP, and Terminal Server traffic across many servers. In fact, you can balance the workload...
- Technical articles 2002-04-19
- Perform daily cluster management tasks with Cluster Administrator
- Deploying new technology can be fun, but the challenge is often working with it on a daily basis. Deploying Windows 2000 clusters is no exception. Read Jim Boyce's take on how to perform daily cluster management tasks.Once you’ve set up your Windows 2000 cluster, you may think the hard part...
- Technical articles 2001-09-25
- Get IT Done: Set up VMware to install Windows clusters
- Learn how to use VMware to simulate a Windows clusterThe Windows 2000 Cluster Service offers a host of high availability and fault tolerance benefits. However, it can run only on expensive, specialized hardware. Although some companies may be willing to shell out big money for equipment that will guarantee high...
- Technical articles 2002-11-12
- Replacing Windows 2000 server with Windows 2003 server
- I have been doing my research on this, but I still haven't come up with a definite and safe upgrade plan.We currently have a Windows domain governed by a Windows 2000 server. This server is the active directory, DNS, DHCP and file server for this domain. We...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- Windows 2000 clustering problem
- Hi,just posting this to get some help from the tech-guys like you.I recently installed Windows 2000 advanced server with active directory pdc. I added two additional servers (bdc and bdc2) in the network.Thus it was a cluster of 3 servers, one primary and two backup. While updating these servers with...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-08
- Cluster file shares on your Windows 2000 servers to increase availability
- What's the point of clustering servers if you don't have resources set up for sharing? Jim Boyce explains how you can apply clustering to something as basic as file sharing on your Windows 2000 server.Before you set up your MSCS cluster, consider what you actually want it to do. Providing...
- Technical articles 2001-10-01
- TechRepublic Tutorial: Provide high availability with clustering in Windows 2000
- Make your Windows network more reliable with clusteringDisaster recovery DR systems focus on transferring your data in real time to another physical location so that the loss of a data center does not mean the loss of corporate data assets. High availability HA systems take this idea and implement it...
- Technical articles 2002-02-08
- Download this Windows clustering glossary
- There's nothing worse than trying to configure a new service and being unsure about the consequences of making certain choices for a particular parameter—especially when the wrong choice can lead to server instability or even make a service unusable or a server unbootable.For example, take the Microsoft Cluster Service...
- Technical articles 2002-11-26
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