Sometime ago I had written an article about using robocopy to copy files across the network. It is a reliable way to copy files with all the attributes intact. Robocopy can withstand interruption to the network connectivity and will pick up from where it stopped copying. It can also be used...
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As a systems or network administrator I’m sure there have been times when you have run into similar situation. You just created a new Exchange 2003 mailbox. But when you try to configure the Outlook client’s profile for the user your get the error that the mailbox cannot be found. You...
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Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) can backup to both disk or tape. The advantage of backing up to disk is the high speed. What may take many hours to backup to tape will take a fraction of that time when backing up to disk, the same applies when performing a restore....
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Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) is the second release of the backup software by Microsoft. DPM is Microsoft’s attempt at grabbing a piece of the bakup software market share which is dominated by Symantec, IBM and others.
I have listed the step by step instructions on how to backup using DPM 2007. ...
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Here is the command to list the network routes on your Windows 2003 server, XP, or Vista computer.
c:\route print
To add a static route to your server or computer use the route add command.
c:\route add -P 172.182.200.0 mask 255.255.255.0 172.182.200.1
In the above example a route to subnet 172.182.200.0 via gateway 172.182.200.1 is added. The...
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Robocopy a saviour tool for the Server Administrators. This is a great replacement for the old DOS copy and xcopy command which have many limitations. That’s not to say that these commands should be retired, I still used them regularly. But when I need to copy a large directory with all...
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Open the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
Click on System – Storage – PERC 5/E Adapter (PCI Slot 1) – Connector 0 (RAID) – Enclosure – Physical Disks.
This will display all the Disk Drives in the right window.
Under the column Available RAID DISK Space, you should be able to determine if there is any unused disk....
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Netstat is a really handy tool that comes packaged with Microsoft Windows, Linux and Unix. There is a version for each type of operating system, the command syntax may differ but the result is the same.
There are many a times when I need to find out what ports are open and listening on...
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By default a new disk or volume added to Windows 2003 server is created with MBR partition. MBR has a maximum size limitation of 2 terra bytes, but it is bootable, meaning use MBR if you are setting up a bootable partition. GTP exceeds the 2 TB maximum size limitation, I’m not...
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Here is a list of typical DHCP server scope options that I usually configure on the Windows DHCP server.
003 Routers
006 DNS Servers
015 DNS Domain Name
249 Classless Static Routes
The DCHP server automatically assigns unique IP addresses to any computer that wishes to connect to the LAN. Before DHCP came along the network administrator has...
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