When it comes to licensing your Windows 2003 Terminal server environment most people can never remember what is needed and the Microsoft documentation seems to go on a bit:) Here I try to make it simple for you…

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Here’s a list of tips to help ensure your Terminal Servers are functioning as efficiently as possible. These are rules I always abide by. Have a look, they may help you too…

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The Terminal Services Session Directory service is a database that keeps track of sessions on terminal servers in a cluster and provides the information used at connection time to connect users to existing sessions. In this article I discuss this and also how to create a Terminal Server Cluster.

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The art of using performance monitor is a fairly easy one to acquire but can be one of the most useful skills for troubleshooting all sorts of problems. It’s been included with the Windows operating systems for many years (both server and client versions.) In this article I describe how to use Performance Monitor to create a baseline. This is the place to start so you have something compare any future monitoring sessions with.

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If you’re looking at this website chances are you fall into one of the categories that makes you eligible to buy this software:- consultants, Value Added Resellers to name a couple. It’s available in most countries and roughly at the same price (UK £199+VAT) but alot of people in the industry are unaware of it’s existence. What prompted me into writing this article was seeing someone selling this very information on eBay.

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Have you seen the above when typing an ipconfig/all and wondered what it was and how to remove it? I came across it when trying to add a problem laptop to a domain. Oddly even though the account I was using was a domain admin I kept getting an access is denied message. After deciding the error message was misleading and it was more of a network issue I found the “Tunnel adaptor Automatic Tunelling Pseudo-Interface” when I looked at the network details. Here’a a VERY easy way to remove this.

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DNS stub zones are a new feature in Windows 2003 server. What are they, what do they do and are they of any benefit? In this article I try and answer these questions and make the complicated subject of DNS that little bit easier. 

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Shadow copies is another valuable option new to Windows 2003 server. It allows you and even better your users the option to recover files as they were previously, saving you as the administrator both time and resources. Here I discuss how to setup and configure shadow copy and how to use it when you need a file.

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 Backing up Active Directory should always be a very crucial part of your backup regime. If Active Directory gets corrupted for whatever reason (a virus written to do this very thing for example) then without a backup you are in trouble. Here I describe exactly how to backup Active Directory.

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When troubleshooting problems I often find it useful to check what domain controller you were authenticated by. If you need to do this it’s simply a matter of issuing a command.
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