An Introduction to Power Management and its Features Power management is a component of system performance that affects how Windows makes use of power when the computer is running under normal conditions. You can use the Power management settings to preserve energy. This in turn extends the life of hardware components of the system because they are powered down during periods when there is no user activity. The power management feature is extremely beneficial for laptop users. Microsoft Windows XP and OnNow capable computers can manage the power of a Read More

The Terminal Services Manager tool (Tsadmin.exe) is the main administration tool used to manage existing Terminal Services sessions, users, and processes that are connected to or running on the Terminal Services server. The Terminal Services Manager tool can manage one or more Terminal Services servers. The administrative tasks that the Terminal Services Manager tool can perform are listed below: View information on existing Terminal Services servers, users, and any connected or running sessions and processes. Connect and disconnect from sessions. Terminate existing sessions and processes. Log off users from sessions. Read More

An Overview on Services Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 provide features technologies and services that can be added to new and existing networks to meet the organizations business requirements. To use certain services, you have to first implement specific technology or services on which these services depend. For instance, in order to use the Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service, you first have to install Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and the Domain Name System (DNS) service. While both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Read More

Microsoft Cluster Service Overview A cluster is the grouping of two or multiple physical servers that are perceived to the network as one network server. The servers in the cluster, called nodes, operate together as one network server to provide redundancy and load balancing to the corporate network by resuming operations of any failed server within the cluster. Servers in the cluster provide access to network resources on the network. In this manner, a cluster provides a higher level of availability for network resources and applications hosted in the cluster. Read More

Interoperating with UNIX The Unix operating system was developed in 1969, and was the initial operating system written in the C programming language. Unix enabled multiple users to access the system and run programs at the same time, and share resources and files. To date, Unix is regarded as being a robust, stable operating system. It is though considered quite intricate to administer. These days, Unix is available as a number of different solutions that have been customized by vendors to suit their own hardware platforms: AIX; developed by IBM Read More

An Overview on the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Service The NNTP service is a component of IIS that supports client/server and server/server elements of NNTP. Through the NNTP service, you can implement private news servers to host discussion groups, or you can implement public news servers to provide customer support and help resources to Internet users. You can specify that users need to be authenticated to both read and post to items to newsgroups, or you can allow access to everybody. The NNTP service can also integrate with the Read More