Skills required for Microsoft test 70-297.

Microsoft has specified more than twenty-five objectives for the 70-297 test, which are grouped under four topics. Following are the important areas in which an individual should possess good knowledge before taking the 70-297 test: Analyzing business and technical requirements of an......
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Things to practice for Microsoft test 70-297.

The PrepKit for the Microsoft 70-297 test measures an individual's ability to analyze the business requirements and to design a directory service architecture including unified directory services, such as Active Directory and Windows NT/2000 domains connectivity between and within systems, system......
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Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory is a centralized database that stores the collection of information about all the resources available on the Windows Server 2003 domain. It is a hierarchical representation of all the objects and their attributes available on the network. It enables......
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Group Policy and Group Policy Object (GPO)

What are group policies? Group policies specify how programs, network resources, and the operating system work for users and computers in an organization. They are collections of user and computer configuration settings that are applied on the users and computers (not on groups). For better......
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Group types and Scopes in Windows 2003.

A group is used as a container that contains user and computer objects within the group. The user and computer objects are stored in the group known as group members. Working with groups instead of individual users helps simplify network maintenance and the administration task. Assigning the......
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Name resolution and Domain Name System in a Microsoft TCP/IP-based network

Name Resolution In a TCP/IP network, communications are based on IP addresses. All devices in a network use IP addresses to communicate with each other. Computers or network devices (such as routers) process IP addresses easily and work accordingly, whereas human beings (or users) find it......
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Planning a backup and restoration of files for disaster recovery.

Planning a backup and restoration of files is the most important step to protect data from accidental loss in the event of data deletion or a hard disk failure. The backup copy can be used to restore lost or damaged data. For taking backups and restoring files, Microsoft has provided a utility......
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Site and Replication

What is a Site? A site is a collection of one or more well-connected (usually a local area network) TCP/IP subnets. The network between the subnets must be highly reliable and fast (512 Kbps and higher). Although the sites are generally defined on the basis of location, they can be spanned......
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Trust Relationships

Trust is a logical relationship between two domains, which allows the sharing of resources between them. The trust relationship involves two entities, i.e., a trusting domain and a trusted domain. The trusted domain can use the resources of the trusting domain. The trust relationship in Windows......
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What is Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000?

Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 is a Microsoft product that is used to provide powerful security and network acceleration while accessing the Internet. It works as a firewall as well as a Web cache server. It integrates with the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system for......
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